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.
I pay for Spotify and do not like the pop ups for podcasts and now audiobooks. I really do not like how they ruined the shuffle button and now the ugly check mark instead of the heart. I am not fond of the ui at all and will start looking at other alternatives. Imo, Spotify has gone downhill. I miss the old time Spotify.
I also really dislike the pop-ups and “recommendations” that I have no interest in. It feels like I’m being advertised to when I’m specifically already paying, in part to remove ads.
That, along with their incessant and poorly communicated A/B UI testing, is making me more and more frustrated. Don’t get me wrong, the price for a Duo membership is excellent for the amount of music available, but I have started to build out my own collection that I can stream through Plex as a backup, since I expect their platform to only get worse over time
I’m just annoyed that it replaces the repeat and shuffle buttons, but only sometimes.
TBH I didnt though about it but yea it’s now gone
Seems to be only if you’re on a recommendation based playlist like discover weekly or release radar
Good thing I don’t use Spotify.
Get your downvotes ready.
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.
A flaw that I heard many times in this teard is that it looks like a volume button
I can see that. Not something that crossed my mind first time I saw it, but makes senses
I completely hate the new “+” symbol, the heart was so easy to understand
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.
Funny enough, people had the same reaction when Spotify changed the plus button to a heart a few years ago
It was once already a plus?
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
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.
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)
That kinda looks like volume control lmao.
Heart or even thumb icons for likes and dislikes are acceptable. This looks stupid like if it belongs to c/assholedesign
I was thinging adding and removing from playlist or something. The old icons are so much more clear, why would you change that 🤦♀️
Do you hate grammar and spelling? Reading your text hurts.
Heart*
Liking*
Disliking*
My*and use punctuation. It’s like you’ve made a conscious effort to make it really bad.
You started a sentence with a lower case ‘and’. It’s like you’ve made a conscious effort to be a dick.
