[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!

[sixbk]

Absolutely agree with this, allow us to curate our own home screen. The home screen has been bad since forever ago and is perpetually getting worse as dumber and dumber things get recommended, released or promoted for whatever reason.

For example I made the mistake of to listening to what I was told was a particularly disgusting couple of minutes of CALL HER DADDY and ever since then it has been front and center every time I open Spotify. This should be the easiest fix in the world, you are a hugely successful premium subscription app, sort it out already.

[teamlouish]

I'm so confused at why such a simple thing can be ignored by spoitfy. I played one stupid podcast and now I'm reminded every single day of my life about this podcast in the Your Shows section. Get rid of it! I don't listen to podcasts at all and its soooooooooo annoying seeing these single played podcasts appear daily.

[chrissdevano]

Plan

Premium

Country

Netherlands

Device

Desktop PC

Operating System

Windows 10

My Question or Issue

I almost never listen to podcast. That is why a lot of my recommendations for podcasts are ones I'm not interested in. Could there be an option to hide specific podcasts from the home screen?

For instance: right-clicking the podcast in question will show an option that says "Not interested" or "Hide from home screen" or just "Hide".

[chrissdevano]

I forgot to mention that some of the recommendation show sexually related content or they target a certain group of people which doesn't include me, like weebs or women. That's also a reason why I'd like to hide them in case someone is being judgemental about it.

[11134393023]

No, there will be no way to hide any podcasts because that's where they put their money and they want people to use it. They don't care about the user experience whether you pay for premium or not.

[hjspencer]

This is nuts.  I have French podcasts but I don't speak the language.

I wish there was an option to remove podcasts from the home screen or just let me re-arrange so I could drop podcasts to the end.

I have no intention of ever listening to podcasts. This force-feeding of podcasts is pretty annoying

[Novy]

Hey folks, 

Thanks for reaching out here. 

We totally understand where you're coming from. Even though it's currently not possible to customize your home screen, other users also think this would be a good idea. In this case, we suggest adding your +VOTE and subscribing to this thread. That way you can stay up-to-date with any relevant news about this.

We appreciate you taking the time to share your comments with us, and will make sure to pass it on to the right folks.

If anything else comes up, the Community will be here.

Cheers.

[chrisboyddotnet]

This seems really counter-intuitive as it displays podcasts that I have maybe listened to once or twice and have zero interest in seeing again. A simple "Remove this from Home" button, like a circle X in the upper right hand corner that appeared when you hovered on the item would make a ton of sense.

The ability to customize your home screen, with the option to both add and remove things, would be even better. But to not allow someone to remove content from the screen is an extremely poor UX choice.

[hjspencer]

What is the point in voting. Spotify has already said they aren’t going to do it

[cubbo]

Even just letting users customize the grid at the top of the start screen to choose which albums playlists podcasts etc they want quickly available would be such a nice addition. There’s just way too much algorithm on the home page, it’s chaotic and because of that I end up just immediately jumping to my library whenever I open the app - at least there I can pin things.