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I've been listening to the playlist "idk." which is made by Spotify, and over time, I noticed I kept hearing the same songs despite the playlist constantly updating. I checked, and the songs in that playlist are different when I listen to it using my account and when I log out. Is there any way to stop Spotify from modifying the playlist? I like the style of music, but I don't want to listen to the same songs over and over again.
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Hey @Weirdo2006,
Thanks for reaching out about this.
Keep in mind that the way some of our Spotify-curated playlists work is that they are personalized according to individual users' tastes and listening habits. The songs within them are collected from a pool, curated by our editors.
In practice, this means that the same Spotify playlist can contain different songs depending on the user who is viewing the playlist and can change for a specific user over time.
If you want more variety we recommend that you expand your library in order to give the algorithm a little boost. Alternatively you can start a playlist-based radio.
Hope this answers your question. We'll be here if anything else comes up 🙂
Hey @Weirdo2006,
Thanks for reaching out about this.
Keep in mind that the way some of our Spotify-curated playlists work is that they are personalized according to individual users' tastes and listening habits. The songs within them are collected from a pool, curated by our editors.
In practice, this means that the same Spotify playlist can contain different songs depending on the user who is viewing the playlist and can change for a specific user over time.
If you want more variety we recommend that you expand your library in order to give the algorithm a little boost. Alternatively you can start a playlist-based radio.
Hope this answers your question. We'll be here if anything else comes up 🙂
You suggest expanding one's library in order to get a greater variety of songs in Spotify's curated playlists, but the way many people discover new music is through these playlists. Starting a playlist-based radio won't work either, because I get recommended the same ten songs on every playlist I make. The level of personalization on Spotify has rendered my song radios and Discover Weekly playlists iron-clad echo chambers that do not facilitate branching out. I would appreciate a feature that would allow users to choose which aspects of the app they want tailored to their personal taste and which they want left alone.
I could not have said it better myself! They need to make an option similar to the "exclude from my taste profile" feature so we can exclude a playlist from over-personalization. Sometimes I'll find a new Spotify-curated playlist that is a breath of fresh air from the same stale songs that get placed into every one of their playlists but, by the time I revisit it, those same songs are already rotated in. If this solution won't be implemented, then, at the very least, Spotify needs to have a longer-term memory. I try hard to listen to different genres and music to break the echo chamber mold they've set me into, but then they just forget everything I've previously built-in, and I find myself in a new echo chamber. I just don't want every playlist to be the same exact one at the same exact time!!!
What I do is make my own playlist and copy all 50/100 songs from the curated one into that playlist and name it the same thing + the date I made it and then you can preserve that exact set of songs before spotify starts altering based on your listening profile.
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