Spotify on Wednesday announced Starting a new feature that allows users to take more control over their recommendations. The service will now allow users to exclude some pieces from affecting their taste profile. This taste profile refers to the sense of streamers for your personal musical taste and interests and leads Spotify’s recommendations, including your weekly discoveries, home page choices, annual experience, lists mix with friends and others.
The company had previously provided a way for users to exclude some breeding lists from their flavor profile, but this does not solve the overall problem of music you are not really influenced by Spotify’s recommendations. On the contrary, the characteristic of the playlist was more useful for things such as ensuring that your sleeping music did not lead to more young or white noise suggestions.
With this new choice, you can move through your recent games to tell Spotify that there are some songs you played but don’t actually like. (Parents everywhere, rejoice!)
To use the feature, both free and premium users can press the three dots in the upper right corner of their screen after choosing the song they want to block. Users can then choose to block the song from their flavor profile or include a previously blocked song.
Spotify hyper-proposal is a long-term key point for the service. But there are many scenarios where the ingestion of all you hear in algorithms makes no sense. Families, especially those with young children, come to mind immediately. Users also often share their Spotify account while in the car with friends and family, allowing others to take their turn to play DJ. The growing number of smart speakers at home also led some household members to become the default Spotify account owner who is related to everyone’s taste.
Taking into account the wide range of scripts, the exception of hand paths is a nice solution, but it is not the best solution. Ideally, users will be able to change more easily between profiles, perhaps even using voice commands, as you often hear when driving. Or the app could offer a way to press to associate an entire listening session with a family member or the other, instead of forcing you to go through songs one by one.
In any case, the feature will offer at least some appeal to those who have the desire to have their Spotify wrapped that is not destroyed by children’s music.
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