topic [Discover Weekly] too frequent updates in Your Library

[Discover Weekly] too frequent updates

rfkmartin — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 20:43:34 GMT

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Duo

Country

USA

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Operating System

My Question or Issue

For the last several weeks my Discover Weekly has been updating more than once a week. This week it's updated Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. Is anyone else seeing this? Any idea how to stop it?

Re: [Discover Weekly] too frequent updates

Kiril — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 12:07:24 GMT

Hey @rfkmartin,

Thanks for posting in the Community!

We understand you've noticed more frequent updates of your personalized playlists. Such behavior of the algorithm is more or less expected in situations when you're actively exploring the app and listening to new music. More frequent updates can happen when the algorithm finds more appropriate recommendations for you based on your recent listening activity, as it strives to provide the most accurate recommendations based on your music taste. For example, this could happen if you listen something that is quite different than your usual taste profile as well. This behavior should normalize on its own, once the Spotify app gets to know your musical taste better.

Hope this clears things up. If you have any questions or need anything else, the Community is here for you.

Re: [Discover Weekly] too frequent updates

JohnnyKB — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 15:38:24 GMT

Is that something you can deactivate? It's definitely not how I would expect it to work. Several times already it removed a song I liked before I had a chance to save it.

Re: [Discover Weekly] too frequent updates

Alex — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 07:33:48 GMT

Hey @JohnnyKB,

Thanks for the reply.

This is not something that can be switched off from the app settings.

Spotify constantly strives to improve the user experience with its features and the easiest way to achieve this is by regular app updates. That’s why we appreciate you taking the time to share your suggestions with the Community.

If you think other users might also like it, go ahead and create an idea on the relevant idea board. We always take new ideas and feedback into consideration to improve the app. Here you can read more on how ideas work.

We also suggest checking this help article for useful tips on how to submit an idea. As a heads-up, it's good to know that the higher the number of votes an idea gets, the more likely it is for the idea to be implemented.

Hope this helps. Let us know if you have any more questions.

Re: [Discover Weekly] too frequent updates

0wing — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 11:46:08 GMT

I've noticed that my Discover Weekly has updated during the week recently as well.

@Alex So you're saying that we should expect that our Discover Weekly, which has updated once a week for years, can update multiple times per week from now on?

Re: [Discover Weekly] too frequent updates

Andy1008 — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 12:30:18 GMT

Also having the same issue. It's not at all how a user would expect a playlist called discover weekly to behave. Discover weekly should be... weekly? If the playlist will change at random then I think the name of the playlist should change. It'll prevent the confusion.

Before I read this thread it felt like an annoying glitch, not a feature.

Re: [Discover Weekly] too frequent updates

Andy1008 — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 12:38:04 GMT

Re: [Discover Weekly] too frequent updates

rfkmartin — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 14:00:11 GMT

Thanks for confirming this issue wasn't limited to me, Andy. I was beginning to think my crazy pill dosage was too high.

I only noticed because I save off my weekly lists to an archive list and started noticing a lot of songs I hadn't heard.

Re: [Discover Weekly] too frequent updates

rfkmartin — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 14:03:06 GMT

I've had a premium account for a number of years so I'm pretty sure the algorithm has figured me out by now. And why completely change a playlist in the middle of a week? I'm not listening to so much music that the algorithm needs to make a wholesale change to a playlist.

Re: [Discover Weekly] too frequent updates

Andy1008 — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 10:38:45 GMT

For anyone experiencing the same issue, I've started an idea thread in the hope of resolving this issue. 👍

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Idea-Submissions/Playlists-Stop-Discover-Weekly-Updating-More-Than-Once-a-Week/idi-p/5337819#M151439

Discover Weekly got updated 1h earlier

Houdini — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 23:58:14 GMT

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My Question or Issue

Discover Weekly got updated 1h earlier than what it's supposed to.

Update happened at 23h00 of Sunday instead of 00h00 of Monday.

Lost this week's playlist because I usually only get time to listen to it in peace at the end of the week.