How do I turn off this ridiculous DJ voice?

[sforzando]

I listen to a wide range of music, but it's often classical... and I don't really appreciate this AI guy telling me we're going to "hit it up" with some Chopin or some Mozart. It was funny for about 5 minutes, but now it's just annoying. I don't like his ridiculous accent. A clean/smooth/neutral accent would be far more appropriate, or at the very least, a way to turn it off. I like what's being played/queued but I don't like listening to this accent. How can I get rid of it?

[ruriglen]

If Spotify is not willing nor incline to offer various voices options at the very least let the user turn off the annoying and frankly out of touch default voice, the DJ option is fine... but the voice itself its not.

[MatthewQ]

Hahaha, your comment made my day. So funny 🙂

"and I don't really appreciate this AI yo yo **bleep** telling me we're going to "hit it up" with some Chopin or some Mozart

[GoodNamesTaken]

I don't understand why the DJ has to sound like Venus Flytrap - feels a bit like racial stereotyping. I'd just as soon have it sound like Johnny Fever. Then again, there's a bit of Les Nessman based on its pronunciation of David "Ben-oh-it". I love the way that it picks songs and genres. Hate the way it tries to fade one song into the next, sometimes cutting way too much off one end or the other and really, really hate that jive talking DJ.

[hobbss]

Agree'd.  Let us change the voice from this beyond annoying one.

Not exactly very AI of it to be so singular in option..

[sakchaser]

Spotify is running out of ideas for profit and innovation. Companies always go from offering a nice streamlined product to chasing profit by bloating up their core product with things that degrade the user experience.

its fine to add things but DON'T CHANGE THE CORE FUNCTIONALITY when that is literally all that people want from your service. Make the DJ card a completely separate thing that people cant opt into. If i click play on my 'liked songs', I shouldn't hear an annoying voice saying nonsense, I should hear my music.

LET ME DISABLE IT OR I LEAVE FOR A SERVICE THAT DOESN'T FORCE THIS ON THEIR USERS

[comments523]

Please Spotify for the love of God!! Please let us turn the DJ off!! I like the mix of music, but don't like hearing the commentary and I don't need to be warned that the genre will change. I like to listen to music while listening to music, not people talking. Please allow us to have the AI mix without the annoying DJ scripts!! Please!!

[mr_anonymouse_jammer]

yes.  please add an option to never hear the souless corporate hip-hop voice. 
it's innapropriate.

Those that disagree should watch this 50 times on repeat to get how we feel about it.  yo. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldk9GAK2has

[ohpaniken]

I got the DJ feature just a couple days ago, and I also agree that the voice is annoying and I wish there could be a dedicated option to turn it off while keeping the song recommendations which I have enjoyed. Gladly, the voice doesn't work if I play it on my TV and PS4 so I just go ahead and listen to the DJ there. But I hope that they put an option to just turn it off.

[AstoranSolaire]

Did you read the question? The linked page is not how to disable the DJ voice. This is how to stop the music the DJ is playing and go and listen to music in some other way. This is not what was asked, which is entirely obvious if you had read the question properly.

[balderdashlie]

I hate this too. Spotify- please remove the voice! I enjoy the mix of songs but I don’t want the voice! 

[darrennix]

100% get rid of the jarring AI-cool voice that breaks the flow every 5 tracks.  We came for the music discovery, not for the silly voice.

[yakichan]

Why are you guys complaining about a Spotify feature that literally mimics a radio DJ? There are many other options on Spotify to listen to music and have remixes (mix, radio, etc). Just don't use this feature 🤦‍♂️.

[balderdashlie]

Because I don’t want to choose a specific genre or mix. I just want to click a button and random music comes out that the “DJ” thinks I want to hear. I enjoy the choices it makes for me, but I don’t want the annoying voice in between the tracks. 

[LuxEBear]

Racist much?

[alexewart1]

Yes quite a bizarre choice from Spotify to create the DJ feature, which is otherwise a great feature, with such a jarring and grating voice and personality. I'd be more than happy with any ethnic or international voice but without the overbearing and "in your face" narration. 

[oscarmayerlynx]

It's not racist to dislike an obnoxious voice. We should be able to turn this **bleep** jive turkey off!

[pmsdrums]

Cant listen to this dude, he is obnoxious and intrusive in the mix. **bleep** songs chosen "for me" . I dont even know the artists he is playing. Doesnt work for me. Terrible DJ.

[indescription]

It's been over a year and we still can't disable the voice. No choice but to not use the DJ feature.

[TheDystopianDevil]

would use it if I had a choice of DJ's

[frisedel]

okay so I rarely do this but here goes.

I'm a developer my self (oh god not that personality again) and this is not a thing that should be hard to implement. The code for creating the mixed playlist is there, the code to trigger the vice is there. All you wankers need to do is get a boolean value from a slider and have an "if" to run the snippet of code for the voice or not, and the same goes for the fade in/out.
I could have fixed this after first year of learning to code.

after that you could run some statistics on how "useful" the voice is - or as I imagine it will turn out - how useful it WAS