topic How do I reset personalization? in Desktop (Windows)

How do I reset personalization?

dfreem01 — Sat, 05 Jul 2014 14:48:00 GMT

I've created a playlist of tunes that I like to hear...probably about half of them I brought over from my Pandora "likes". The more I personalized Spotify radio (I primarily listen to the "alternative" radio station), the more it just plays the same stuff over and over. Then I go back to Pandora where I've deleted all my likes and am getting fresh(er) stuff. Without killing my Spotify playlist, how can I remove all the likes and personalization and possibly get something I've not heard before? I'm really not interested or have time to root through scores of playlists.

Thanks!

Re: How do I reset personalization?

user-removed — Sat, 05 Jul 2014 17:32:29 GMT

I'm not sure if this will reset the personalization of your Spotify radio, but you can delete all your stations by hovering your cursor over them and hitting the X that appears in the top right corner. That might work?

What you could also do is drag and drop all the songs included in your "Liked from Radio" playlist into a new one, and then delete them all in the original playlist. That might work, too.

Re: How do I reset personalization?

dfreem01 — Sat, 05 Jul 2014 18:31:19 GMT

Thanks for the note. Unfortunately, I use the standard Alternative radio station and haven't created my own. Last week I did delete everything from the "Like From Radio" playlist. They all ended up in "Songs" so I'm not sure if I need to make another mass change. That said, even after both those changes and today adding in the last.fm thingy, I still haven't heard a song I haven't already heard before and it's been playing for ~3 hours.

I'll try moving everything from "Songs" to another playlist. I don't have high expectations for that! Thanks, though.

Re: How do I reset personalization?

Peter__ — Sun, 06 Jul 2014 15:03:21 GMT

Unfortunately if you are using one of the in-build stations I don't think you can "reset" it. As mentioned above the only way to make it completely forget radio preferences appears to be by deleting the station (when possible).