Feature Request: "Liked Songs" added to the playlist options in the ConnectIQ Spotify App?

I would like to see a "like" option. It would be handy to add songs when I'm listening an unknown playlist during an activity and I hear a song which Iike.

If they could add a like function too that would be even better, but I imagine that might be a bit tricky given the ConnectIQ version of Spotify is infrequently connected to their servers (only when you do a WiFi sync with Spotify to update or add playlists), which could cause sync priority headaches.

I generally find the Spotify smartphone app is a great way of just browsing around music on Spotify, then I just hit the like symbol when I find something I want to listen to again.  Equally, it's fairly quick to unlike something when you've had enough of a like song.  So for me, the "Liked Songs" playlist is dynamic and ever changing, which is one of the primary reasons I'd like to have it on my Fenix too.

Do you take your phone with you for activities? I'm a bit torn between using the phone vs the watch for music. For audiobook I have a good app on the phone, I don't think the watch can replace that. When I tried just the watch I had this "tech from the future feel" and it's already amazing that you can download a playlist to it. Liked Songs option wouldn't hurt but then the watch would be downloading your new additions all the time, and possibly, a lot. For now I see this as a bit of a first world problem :D I can always just cultivate a few playlists, and pick songs from liked to an activity playlist. Hell, I could grab all liked and make a manual copy of the entrie list, but as a named, garmin-compatible playlist.

1. In desktop/webapp of spotify go to Liked Songs in the library.
2. Scroll to the very bottom so you see more than 100 songs at once. Relatively slowly so it loads all as you scroll.
3. Ctrl+A or select all by other means.
4. Right Click > Add to Playlist (Create new or add to an existing). I call it "Liked Copy" or whatever.
5. If you are updating the playlist, it'll detect duplicates so you can skip them (only add new likes).
6. If you have been unliking stuff, just clear everything from the playlist and add all liked again. When the garmin device syncs it doesn't seem to be deleting all the songs and starting over, just those that are unliked.

I think they don't offer this becase most peple may not cultivate playlists much but almost exclusively use the liking feature. That means hundreds or thousands of songs easily, one could easily exhaust the storage on the garmin device in one go. I "only" have 600 songs, that's fine (still takes forever to sync up, on wifi). I heavily use playlists too, not everything in them is liked, far from it. But I guess it's more common to have thousands of songs in liked than in any given playlist.

If you want to keep it interesting, check the release radar in made for you, that's also ever changing and supposed to be from artists you like. I'll check that out to keep my activities interesting and to discover new stuff while I'm at it. I miss the like button option here for sure.

One benefit of using the watch for music is that it's a truly offline spotify, meaning it won't disconnect the "main" spotify is someone else is listening to it at home on the tv/computer/car, on the same account. A downside is that it doesn't scrobble to last.fm or similar.

yes

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same here. I listen to this dynamic playlist almost every day and find a gap when using my Fenix 6 + spotify. I voted for you post in spotify. 

Well, I see that Spotify still hasn't bothered to add this function so I started a "new" idea and maybe this time we can get more people to get behind this idea and vote for it; https://community.spotify.com/t5/Idea-Submissions/No-quot-Liked-Songs-quot-in-Garmin/idi-p/5233827#M137742

I will be cancelling Spotify if they don't add this and instead dump my favourite songs directly into the watch's internal storage memory...

I get what you're saying but I also don't get it when you say this;

"Liked Songs option wouldn't hurt but then the watch would be downloading your new additions all the time, and possibly, a lot."

And then you explain in 6 well-covered steps, how one could resolve this "first world problem".., well, your idea might be great but it is seriously flawed because;

1. Not everyone has a PC in fact, most younger peeps don't. I do and I can do this but again, not everyone can so how do you propose that those people resolve this issue?

2. You make it sound like leaving the watch to sync is an impossible task to complete when in fact you set it to sync and let it do its thing, regardless of how long it takes. This would always be a preferred option over having to and as you suggested, manually update and copy songs that are already in my "Liked songs" playlist to another playlist when then needs to be synced with my watch in any case. So not only do I/others that want a  solution for this problem to have more work but also, unnecessary work which the devs can EASILY resolve by adding this functionality. Heck, the damn API call to pull the "Liked songs" list exists.


I'm NOT attacking you or bashing your idea, I am simply trying to explain this "first world problem" in a constructive and critical manner ;-)

I do the same...

Anyone knows at what quality/bitrate (Kbps) the songs from Spotify are downloaded to the watch and if this can be configured somewhere?