[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!

[Baptchef]

• Chers mélomanes, Comme vous, j'ai apprécié Spotify pour sa simplicité et sa focalisation sur la musique. Cependant, récemment, l'aspect TikTok a pris de l'ampleur.
  Voici ma proposition pour un Spotify plus authentique :
• 1. Désactivation des "Shorts" : Permettez aux utilisateurs de choisir s'ils veulent voir des vidéos courtes sur l'accueil.
• 2. Retour au défilement vertical classique : Laissez-nous revenir à l'ancien format, sans le défilement à la TikTok !
• 3. Personnalisation des catégories : Masquez les catégories "musique" et "podcast" pour ceux qui préfèrent une expérience plus sobre en évitant le scroll verticale.
• 4. Simplification des informations sous les morceaux : Affichez uniquement les paroles. Pas de profils d'artistes ni d'annonces de concerts.
• 5. Choix et Authenticité : Spotify, c'est avant tout la musique. Laissez-nous le choix et revenons aux sources.

[RlyehTokken]

Imagine you can pay for what you want to listen to and can block useless podcasts and shite recommendations? 

Unfortunately, the Spotify devs don't have such simple imagination. Not sure how much longer I am going to put up with their BS. 

[RlyehTokken]

That would be cool if the devs made this possible. I am so annoyed with Spotify shoving senseless content in my face, when I just want to listen to my tunes. F joerogan podcasts. Would never listen to it so remove it from my feed 🙂

[igaliok]

I just don't want to see Hitler every time I use the app. Is this too much to ask?

[orca430]

accidentally clicked on an erotic audio podcast on spotify a couple months ago, still hasn’t been taken off of my recommended for you, it’s embarrassing.

[hervidor]

For a while now, Spotify has been so focused on recommending me podcasts that I struggle to use Spotify for new music discovery. That is my main reason for using Spotify, and I'm using Spotify less and less for music because of this.

My home page "Recently Played" has some music that I've already listened to. My "Jump Back In" section is basically all podcasts. Besides that, the only place it shows me music is the "Made For You" section. Literally everything else is "New Episodes", "Episodes for you", "More Like <episode title>" (tons of these), "Your Shows", "Popular with Listeners of <podcast>", "Spotify Original Podcasts", "Shows You Might Like".

I went to the "Music" tab which is showing me music, but its far less content than I get on the normal homepage, and it barely feels like it's using their recommendation algorithms at all. A few Spotify-created playlists I've listened to before, a few albums I've listened to before, and then some generally popular artists that are clearly not in my area of interest (Kanye). The content on all of these specific tabs is heavily reduced from what is on the full homepage.

I find it really overwhelming when I open Spotify on my laptop. It's frankly so much work for me to get to some music that I've noticed myself switching to YouTube or something else where I can quickly search a genre I'm interested in and get tons of results. I haven't saved new music on Spotify in months!

[Ikaemos]

Voting this up despite the discouraging "not right now"-decision, since I just got put in the podcast jail recently; Home screen is completely unusable.

I'm guessing the recommendations go off of listen time, so yes, listening to 1h+ episodes makes it seem like you're there for that. I'm not. If only I could make that clear. When I first started using Spotify, it was an amazing way to discover new music. I wish I could delete my entire history and start over.

[aessof05]

Plan

Premium

Country

Australia

Device

pixel 7

Operating System

Android

My Question or Issue

So i did my research of the forum and found some things about the new home interface from 2023 and previous, but nothing about recently. I don't like the new home screen interface and want to change it back. I got spotify for music, but all I ever see on the home screen are podcasts and podcast suggestions, and audiobooks. I listen to like 2 podcasts max, and not regularly. I no longer see the options for my top mixes, albums or artists i may like. Radio suggestions etc etc. Then there is also the tiktok interface. This has got to be one of the worst things Spotify has done. Especially annoying on Android Auto when you are trying to find music for the drive but all it keeps suggesting is, "hey, you might like this podcast on **bleep**". Is there a way to fix it or change it back. 

[danpg91]

About six months ago I clicked an episode of a Chelsea FC podcast because I was interested in one specific discussion point contained in that one particular episode. Now I constantly have this podcast complete with Chelsea logo pushed in my face every time I load Spotify. I do not support Chelsea, I do not wish to see this. I can't believe there still isn't a 'not interested' option. Please sort it out!

[kawww]

Insane that I have to be so specific about where I open Spotify on my phone due to the explicit podcasts (which I have never once listened to) being shown on my home feed. No doubt the response again will be "Subscribe and upvote this thread, it may change!!" when it's now 3 years later