topic Re: Improving Radio Station. in Android

Improving Radio Station.

Rennos151 — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 00:37:08 GMT

How the heck can I manually add artists or tracks to a Radio station? I really want to customize a radio station. I have an HTC One Max and use the spotify app for it, and I also use Windows Client. I have windows 7. Any help would be appreciated. I cant find crap on this. Onlything i get are a bunch of people crying about deleting Radio stations.

Re: Improving Radio Station.

kbrooksc — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 00:56:01 GMT

Hi there and welcome to the community! Unfortunately, you can't add artists or tracks to a particular station, but you can create a station based off of your likes.

What I would recommend is adding your favorite songs or artists to a playlist.

Re: Improving Radio Station.

dinomight — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 01:20:48 GMT

As @kbrooksc mentioned you can't customize a single artist based station, but if you'll just make a playlist with several songs/artists, you can easily start a playlist based radio. That's actually one of my favorite features on Spotify because it helps me build better playlists. I'm always adding to and removing from those sort of lists as I go.

Re: Improving Radio Station.

kbrooksc — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 01:34:23 GMT

Sorry guys! I totally thought I mentioned that second part. Thanks for bringing it up for us Dino!

Re: Improving Radio Station.

dinomight — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 01:40:37 GMT

Yeah, no problem. I thought that's what you were getting at but thought it could be a little more clear. All good.

Re: Improving Radio Station.

Rennos151 — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 02:56:44 GMT

Okay, So your saying I need to make a playlist of songs, and then start a radio station based on it? I guess that's a round about way. I just thought it'd be set to where, once i started a radio station ( like hitting "open radio" from a song i was listening to" and then add artists or songs to). But hey that works. And also... is there a way to find Movie Soundtracks without having to type in the name of the movie? Im really only finding movie scores when I do type in the movie name (the instrumental background music from the composers like orchastras and whatnot). Much thanks.

Re: Improving Radio Station.

dinomight — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 03:55:30 GMT

No, sorry, stations aren't editable directly aside from the thumbs up/down system. You can find a lot of movie soundtracks by typing genre:soundtracks in the Spotify search. Here's a list of other genres...just replace "soundtracks" with whichever one you're looking for. Granted, it's not the most direct approach to finding styles of music. You can also try the browse section...Movies is a subgenre of Pop-Culture, but that's really playlist based, not album based.

Re: Improving Radio Station.

brotheryellow — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 04:22:25 GMT

I had a radio station based on an album that I produced, anyway, the radio played alot of cool, diverse, obscure stuff and I enjoyed discovering a lot of new related music and other artists that I am similar too. However, I voted up a couple punk songs, now that is all I hear when I play that radio station. It no longer plays all the interesting stuff I was discovering before. How do I refresh my likes and votes so the radio station playes "unimproved" ? furthermore, I cant even delete it and start a fresh station with the same Artist?

Re: Improving Radio Station.

Mojaman — Sat, 17 Feb 2018 20:18:33 GMT

Having just converted from Pandora, I agree with you that ability to improve a song-based station puts Spotify at the top of the big streamer list. I battled Pandora app for hours trying to get it to play only sounds I wanted to hear. I mean the content of the songs, not the artist. Artists don't always meet sound expectations. Both platforms have some tendency to keep adding what they think listener wants, but Spotify seems very responsive to thumbs down, so maybe that's all we have to work with.