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This is no more. After today, you can add as many songs as you like to your Liked Songs on

I've been working with a small team on the refactoring necessary to pull this off for a while now. Very happy to see this finally out.

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Mohammed Al Busaidi

@TI3GIB

Mar 25, 2020

Dear @Spotify @eldsjal. Increasing the maximum library size has been marked as a 'good' suggested idea since 2017. Either I move my library to a playlist and lose my time marks or start a new forked library with no shuffle across my library. This seems like an easy fix. Pls help.

10:27 AM · May 26, 2020

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The Spotify Labs blog now has a post detailing the technical challenges related to this change

engineering.atspotify.com

Spotify Modernizes Client-Side Architecture to Accelerate Service on All Devices - Spotify Engine...

Spotify Modernizes Client-Side Architecture to Accelerate Service on All Devices - Spotify Engineering

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to add to this ive never experienced anything more confusing than liking an album and it doesn't add the songs to your library. That cant be the way it was designed? Why would even do that?

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This is how it worked in the past and it was confusing to many people. It took us years to change to how it is now.

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July 23, 2020. I thought this wasn't supposed to be happening by now?

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This message is shown when any error occurs. I'm reporting to the UI teams that they should change the copy. You can retry and tell me if the error persists.

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Yo this is a LIE. I've got a goddamn TB SD card in my phone & still have to delete music to add more after 30-something G. Why are you lying?

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I think there is a misunderstanding here. The app allows you to mark an unlimited number in Liked Songs, but you can't have all the media files in the phone. After some number, you have to stream them when playing.

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So what is the limit these days? 20-25k?

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No limit being imposed. Unless some performance degradation creeped in, it should work.

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INCREDIBLE! Thank you! I know I’m not alone in my curiosity to hear more about the work that went into making this change, and where the limitation originally came from.