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.

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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It was once already a plus?

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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.

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