What is your opinion on the new like and dislike button in Spotify?

So Spotify recently changed from a green heart and a block song button to and + and a - for liking and disliking. What is your opinion?

My personal preference would be to bring back the green heart and make a deep red broken heart.

And I know spotify is proprietary yada yada I don’t care for music streaming. So pls don’t let it be a part of the discussion.

To reference this is an old screenshot I found on the internet.

https://feddit.de/pictrs/image/120aa1fc-70c8-4298-a0a0-473828ad6642.png

Capitao_Duarte,

I prefer it this way. I like the function of the double tap open up a prompt to choose a playlist, feels more convenient. As for the heart vs plus button, i like the symbology of the plus button more, but that’s personal preference.

iloverocks,

A flaw that I heard many times in this teard is that it looks like a volume button

Capitao_Duarte,

I can see that. Not something that crossed my mind first time I saw it, but makes senses

Resol,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

Good thing I don’t use Spotify.

Get your downvotes ready.

__init__,

I’m just annoyed that it replaces the repeat and shuffle buttons, but only sometimes.

iloverocks,

TBH I didnt though about it but yea it’s now gone

__init__,

Seems to be only if you’re on a recommendation based playlist like discover weekly or release radar

FireWire400, (edited )
@FireWire400@lemmy.world avatar

It’s pretty misleading if your not familiar with the interface, isn’t it?

The plus to me signifies that the song will be added to a playlist and personally, I’d be pretty confused if it doesn’t bring up a prompt to choose said playlist. The minus is even more confusing in that context.

iloverocks,

It is some kind of what you said. If you press the + button again you get a menu to add the song to a playlist. Another point that I missed is that the “like” button also adds the song to your favorite list.

FireWire400, (edited )
@FireWire400@lemmy.world avatar

That’s kinda like double-mapping a button on a controller, yeah you get used to it but it just makes it more complicated IMO.

Tidal still has the heart and hides away the option to add to playlist in a hamburger menu, which adds one tap but personally, I use the heart function way more often so I don’t really mind.

feef,

You get used to it, it has been like this on iOS for quite a while already.

seliaste,
@seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Funny enough, people had the same reaction when Spotify changed the plus button to a heart a few years ago

iloverocks,

It was once already a plus?

seliaste,
@seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Yes, 6 or 7 years ago, when they introduced podcasts. People on reddit were saying that the heart was bad, too childish, too instagram-like, so it’s kinda silly to see the same demographic defend the heart now. I guess people realky hate change

johnyrocket,

My app doesn’t have this , but it also doesn’t have a like button anymore. The only button is a checkmark to add the song to a playlist. Please spotify, change it back!!! The only reason I pay for spotify is for conveniance. If spotify stops being 14 bucks more conveniant than piracy I will happily switch.

Flumsy,

It turns into a checkmark as soon as you have the song in your playlists. For new songs, its just a plus button (at least for me)

SecretPancake,

Don’t use Spotify and it took me a while to even find the mentioned buttons in the screenshot. Looks like either volume controls or add/remove from playlist. Better would be thumbs up/down.

RampantParanoia2365,

Don’t use Spotify much and I never would have guessed those were like and dislike.

GissaMittJobb,

They aren’t. The plus adds the song to a playlist, by default the liked songs-list (a second tap on the plus lets you change which list it goes to). The minus is a “don’t recommend this”-button.

Bongles,

My app only has the plus currently. I think it’s a dumb change. The type of change you make because you need to change something. Nobody that is competent enough to use a smart phone app would see any benefit from it being changed to a plus and as others have pointed out… it’s a music app, plus and minus are usually associated with volume.

WhyJiffie,

I don’t use spotify, and I thought those are volume buttons, and did not understand where are the like and dislike buttons until I read the post. I think this is just a dumb design choice.

Praxinoscope,

Press it once to add to Liked. Press it again to add to another playlist. Not great, not terrible.

technojamin,

I just read through all the top-level replies to this post, and you’re the only one that actually understands this change. They didn’t just change the icon, they added new functionality.

Your description isn’t quite complete, though. Pressing it once adds to the playlist you most recently added to. Basically, it remembers which playlist you last added a song to, so if you’re listening to a radio station that matches one of your playlists vibes, it makes it really easy to add the songs as they play.

This new functionality perfectly matches my “flow” of music collection, since I add to separate playlists instead of to Liked. This feature changes nothing if you only ever add to Liked.

So basically, everyone in this post is complaining about a feature Spotify added that genuinely enhances my experience and is only a minor visual change for everyone else.

olafurp,

I’m a person that likes it when the UI is switched up a bit every now and then to bring some fresh air to an old app.

This case I absolutely don’t care.

vinceman,

I used to agree wholeheartedly, but I’m the last 3-5 years I’ve come to absolutely dread UI changes. I can’t think of a website or service that I use that’s gotten better. They (reddit, youtube, facebook or whatever) take away functions and make it easier to herd users the way they want them.

generic,
@generic@iusearchlinux.fyi avatar

I didn’t know Spotify changed this. I opened up the app, and sure enough it popped up with “the heart is now a plus.”

Yeah, I don’t like it. Just a random plus sign on the “now playing” screen isn’t obvious what it does. Yes, the app told me, but that only appears once.

I wonder if we can complain and get them to change it back.

intensely_human,

Also it now takes multiple taps to remove something from my liked songs.

ErKaf,
@ErKaf@feddit.de avatar

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