[All Platforms] Customize Start Screen

[DK411]

This is not a new idea, but I haven't found any practical reply to it, so I think it needs to be repeated. I completely agree with Rennestein (screen capture below), we need to stop seeing irrelevant suggestions because it is annoying. Why can't it be possible to decide what we first see when we open Spotify on any device? (playlists, recently played, artists we're following, etc), and enjoy better our Spotify experience?
Please Spotify, let us have the home screen as we'd like. :)) Thank you!

[127750886]

Truly ridiculous that you can’t remove something from the Home Screen that was listened to for a few second. Figure it out! This is not a difficult adjustment. You will lose customers if your can’t delete recent activity.

[agitmusic]

This is even more of an issue in regards to Podcasts. I was following a podcast and then I got sick of the content so I unfollowed it. But the algo works really slow, so I keep seeing the latest episode of this podcast showing up in my Good Morning or Good Evening section at the top.

Not too much of an issue but what is happening is that if i listen to another podcast and it ends it will sometimes auto-play what is in that top section, and if it plays the unwanted podcast by accident the algo will reset and assume i want to see it! And this is for a podcast I am NOT EVEN FOLLOWING.

At the least only podcasts that I follow should show up in my Good Morning section on the Home screen.

Dont put anything in that section that I am not following or is not in my library or from an artist I am not following.

I dont mind discovering new music via auto-play or radio since that is just a simple skip action but when I leave a podcast it is usually because I dont want to hear it ever again. 

[deejerydoo]

Spotify have chosen to repeatedly ignore this request simply because Spotify is not concerned with what you actually want to listen to, beyond pretty shonky play list functionality and their algorithms.

They literally don't care.

[xcb3djok]

Totally agree. We should be able to hide this content we have never requested. I am quite baffled to be honest.

[LawLee]

I Hate the Spotify User Experience

I don’t know why anyone raves about the Spotify UI. Look at this garbage. I have to pay a subscription to have it serve me “advertisements” for podcasts with no way to prioritize seeing music, or turning off seeing podcast thumbnails. Utter Rubbish!

[ObeyWann]

Here was my post, apparently it was a duplicate:

Have you ever briefly listened to a podcast, find you didn't like it, and want to remove it from your Home Page / Your Shows? Guess what? You can't.

Here is what the customer support rep told me:

In that section of your Home page you'll find the podcasts you've listened to, even if it was for a short time, as well as some podcast recommendations.

Even though it isn't possible to customize your Home page and manually remove those podcasts, we understand where you're coming from and appreciate your feedback on the matter.

In my experienced, you can keep listening on your preferred genre, I can assure that it will remove form your Home page.

This is unacceptable. I pay good money for this service. It does not make any sense whatsoever that I can't remove content from my home page that I don't like. I can't fathom how the developers can't add an option to remove it from the screen. Instead, they force what they think we want.

[jakescaife]

REMOVE AUDIOBOOKS AND PODCASTS THAT WERE PREVIOUSLY IN LIBRARY BUT THEN THE USER REMOVED THEM. WHY DO THEY STAY THERE? ALSO, LET USERS REMOVE SUGGESTIONS AFTER THEY HAVE SEEN THEM! THIS IS SO FRUSTRATING AND RUINING MY SPOTIFY EXPERIENCE!

[sa124]

I'm just going to reply to this thread once a week until something changes.

Please, please let me remove a Podcast from my listening history. Let me block it. Let me remove it. Let it never Autoplay every single time my daily podcast ends. Please. Please. Please.

[xcb3djok]

The issue has some traction but not enough for a change apparently says Spotify Customer Service.

[sa124]

I just don't understand why though — surely there needs to be better options to personalise recommendations! Isn't that the whole point of Spotify?! 😁 — otherwise what's the whole point of their big marketing gimmick at the end of the year, when all the Podcasts it shows "I loved in 2023" will actually be wrong?!