[Discovery Weekly] Every week the same genre and nothing else

[edrn]

My Question or Issue

Hi all, this is my first post on the community

Discovery Weekly always worked flawlessly for me, except for the past 3/4 weeks

All i get is ambient music, I tried listening to other generes (dub techno, lofi hip hop) for a week straight and today i got the same stuff in DW.

I also created a playlist with music different than ambient but that didn't work.

Any ideas? DW is one of the main reasons I pay and enjoy this service, so after almost a month this is getting very annoying

Thanks in advance

[Jose_M]

Hello!

I'd recommend using the heart (like) and block (dislike) button to customise your experience. If you still have this issue for a long time, I'd recommend having a clean reinstall or trying it in other devices.

Hope this helps 🙂

[edrn]

Didn’t really work, tried both the love/dislike buttons on last week playlist, did a clean install and i am already using Spotify on three different devices, iOS, macOS and Windows.

i have to say that it’s not the same genre all the way through, i’d say it’s 80% ambient and the other 20% is more beat oriented.

i wish there was some sort of panic button for this kind of situations

knowing that Spotify suggests other users with my same interests what to listen it’s hard to believe they will ever implement this kind of feature but at least there should be a way of pointing the maschine learning algorithms in another direction.

a sort of “hey you have been going off track lately, let me set you in the right direction again”

You got any suggestions? Should i clean install on all my devices? I thought Spotify had everything online, not relying on local data on my devices.

thank you

[Jose_M]

Hello @edrn,

You should make sure that private listening and offline mode is turned off. Can you also let me know if you even listen to ambient? To be sure, make sure that you log out everywhere so that the account isn't used somewhere else, and also reset the password.

 Also note that Discover Weekly may take a while before being affected by what you're currently listening to, so keep listening to the music you like 🙂

Hope this helps amd have a nice day!

[edrn]

@Jose_M never really used private listening nor offline mode.

Yes, i definetely listen and enjoy Ambient, but it's not ever remotely proportional to the amount that appears in Discovery Weekly.

Will proceed right now to log out of every device and change my password to a stronger one.

Thanks for your time.

[Jose_M]

Hello! Make sure to let me know if your Discover Weekly updates at some point 🙂 If it doesn't, can you try unfollowing it and following it again?

Thanks! Have a nice day.

[edrn]

Hi

Monday morning again, DW went full ambient again.

Tried to unfollow and follow it again, tried unfollowing the only ambient playlist i was following but didn't work 😞

Some numbers about this week's Discovery Weekly:

8/30 tracks i didn't dislike, didn't feel good about hitting a dislike button on music i enjoy just to train Discovery Weekly

4/30 (4 of those 😎 tracks aren't ambient

Liked (clicked heart icon) 3/30 tracks (so 3/4 of those 4 non ambient tracks)

Been listening to some techno in the past week, ranging from abdulla rashim and luigi tozzi, to dax j, ancient methods, shlomo and so on..

I've also created a couple of small playlists with the tracks i liked to ease the process of recovering Discovery Weekly.

What now?

Thanks again for your time.

[PygmyLepper]

I've had this problem for about 6 months. Over the last 2 months I've been trying to sort it out.

I dislike almost everything in the playlist, every week, for the last 2 months. Nothing changes, just ambient. This week it was every song in the playlist.

What I dont understand is the 'Daily Mixes' playlists are accurate to my tastes. So it's not like Spotify dosent know what I like. The algorithm is just inststant on serving me up ambient.