topic Re: How do I hide/dislike/ban specific songs ? in Desktop (Windows)

How do I hide/dislike/ban specific songs ?

EfeTheCaptain — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 00:25:10 GMT

Plan

Premium

Device

Android and PC

My Question or Issue

How do I hide/dislike/ban specific songs ?

Why are we able to like everything so quickly but not able to dislike them ?

There is no option to hide/ban the song when I click the 3 dot or right click.

I can ban artists but there are songs that I hate and love from the same artist, but I just hate some of their songs, I don't want to see them in my mixes or playlists that I play. I don't want to change someone's playlist I just don't want them in my que.

Re: How do I hide/dislike/ban specific songs ?

Joan — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 07:16:46 GMT

Hi there @EfeTheCaptain

Thanks for reaching out. The dislike, or 'Hide This Song' button is present in Discover Weekly, Release Radar, any radios (playlist/artist/track) and Daily Mixes. Note on Daily Mixes - you'll need to click on three dots on the Mix and select "Go to Playlist Radio". Radios based on artists, albums or songs will work with Autoplay enabled. The Recommendations under the playlist cannot be disliked. You simply add what you like and ignore the rest.

There's also some ideas about new functions that aren't in the app yet - check those out here and here.

Let me know if you need more help!

Re: How do I hide/dislike/ban specific songs ?

EfeTheCaptain — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 10:28:53 GMT

I didn't know that I could "partially" hide them using this extra step. Thanks.

But still, I can't ban the songs. I can hide them only in those playlist, how about I don't want to meet that specific song anytime in my life time ?

Re: How do I hide/dislike/ban specific songs ?

EfeTheCaptain — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 01:15:34 GMT

Hiding songs from the song radio's playlist doesn't even do anything, when I revisit the same playlist, songs that I have hidden comes back. It's just pure disappointment. 😪

Re: How do I hide/dislike/ban specific songs ?

MihailY — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 04:34:52 GMT

Hey @EfeTheCaptain,

Thanks for getting back to us.

Hiding the song on all devices is only possible if you block the artist, so if you feel strongly about this, we'd suggest voting for the above mentioned ideas.

We hope this helps.

Re: How do I hide/dislike/ban specific songs ?

pe_avila — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 18:05:07 GMT

sorry but this is stupid, I keep seeing artists and songs that I don't like and I want to do something about it like block the artist.

Re: How do I hide/dislike/ban specific songs ?

PStout85 — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 18:47:13 GMT

i have a song i HATE. just HATE and it has like 30 latin spanish artists. so on ANY of their playlists that same song shows up. i HAAAAATE it. look up Color Esperanza 2020. and it makes me hate ALL those artists for singing in that song.

Re: How do I hide/dislike/ban specific songs ?

foffregard — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 07:24:00 GMT

I'd suggest you make your app less shitty and impossible to navigate...

Re: How do I hide/dislike/ban specific songs ?

Maffahew — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 11:22:24 GMT

This is the best answer. I find it extremely annoying that we can't ban songs that we don't like or that we don't want to hear anymore on a service that we pay quite a lot of money for. I feel like this is so that it doesn't affect reach negatively, which is lame. This is music, there are TONS of songs that repeatedly come up that I DO NOT want to hear, EVER AGAIN. I don't want to outright ban a whole artist, I want to never hear certain tracks again. Spotify, for the love of God, please give us the power to ban tracks, and ban them with ease.

Re: How do I hide/dislike/ban specific songs ?

queennadir — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 01:20:27 GMT

We, Spotify's customers, do not want to vote for any of those unsuitable solutions. We want to be able to ban specific songs from our accounts. This is an absolute BASIC of a customisable streaming music service. The ability to like, save and ban songs is the full spectrum of customisation. I'm pretty sure you used to be able to do this. Is there a commercial reason that Spotify stopped this? Because customers come first. Not pressure from record companies. There's alternatives now. I'm getting to the point where I'm thinking about rebuilding my playlists on Tidal and switching services.

As one of the others said on this thread: for the love of god, or perhaps a customer base loyalty, please introduce the ability to ban songs.

Re: How do I hide/dislike/ban specific songs ?

19pg80 — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 09:59:10 GMT

'Hide This Song' button no longer present in web player. Fix it, please.

Re: How do I hide/dislike/ban specific songs ?

adoboloco — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 18:48:44 GMT

This has been requested since 2019? Seriously a dislike button is needed ASAP. If it doesn't happen soon, I'll go back to my old subscription on a competitors service. I'm done skipping the same songs over and over again.

Re: How do I hide/dislike/ban specific songs ?

richardglade — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 20:42:28 GMT

Odd that a simple feature like "do not play this particular song again" doesn't exist on your app in 2024. Lazy programming.

Re: How do I hide/dislike/ban specific songs ?

beastmanh — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 01:56:03 GMT

Oh it's not lazy programming, it's outright "we don't care if our customers don't like it..it makes us money". I would bet that Spotify gets their cut of the play revenue within the first 5 seconds or something like that, and if they force people to skip the song rather than ban it, they end up making a decent amount of money from NOT allowing users to ban songs... Until all of their customers get a different app that is.. which is obviously happening.

Re: How do I hide/dislike/ban specific songs ?

profelvis — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 13:20:26 GMT

This is so typical of modern apps: an obvious flaw widely flagged up, and the response is to vote on dumb non-solutions. I HATE Metallica's cover of Whiskey in a Jar but like a lot of their other stuff; I can't stop that song without blocking all Metallica? Its not as if I'm not paying for this 'service'

Re: How do I hide/dislike/ban specific songs ?

Darkness666 — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 11:50:20 GMT

Please fix this. Every other service offers this BASIC service..