Add a "not interested button"

[CarminAngello]

Hello,

Spotify keeps shuffling my true crime podcasts to one's I don't like. There is no way to stop this from happening and I can not remove the specific podcast from queue. It comes back. 

There should be an option, such as a not interested button, to stop a particular podcast or song/artists from playing. Please add something that will make these podcasts not come up as you ask them not to. 

Thank you,

[Luan]

Updated on 2023-10-05

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[poppy2]

Yes! I love the auto play feature on podcasts but I tried listening to a new podcast, really didn’t like it, and now it always appears in the auto play feed despite saying that I’m “not interested” in it.

just need a way to stop it popping up - like how you can choose to not play specific artists 

[Forrest735]

Amazon allows a member to remove recommendations and to direct that prior purchases and browsing history not be used for recommendations.  Amazon did so because people wanted this and asked for it.  Spotify would be righteous and wise if it provided its subscribers at least as much as Amazon does.  Some people, like me, are repelled by what they perceive as overly aggressive marketing.  On my Spotify home page on my iPhone, I currently have 20 categories of recommendations and probably over 100 recommendations. Five of these are categories for podcasts.  Yet I do not follow any podcasts.  And I have no interest in podcasts on Spotify.  Listen to your subscribers.  You may think aggressive advertising of podcasts and now audiobooks will increase your revenue.  But the key source of your revenue is a loyal base of subscribers.  Don't risk that base by trying to exploit it too much.

[COLDREX]

Please add an option to exclude certain regions from recomentations or atleas make that "don't like" feature to be cross platform and working properly.

[Luan]

Updated on 2023-10-12

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[Tetiana_Kr]

Funkcja "nie interesuje" na prawdę jest bardzo potrzebna. Ostatnim czasie Spotify proponuje mi muzykę która w życiu bym nie słuchałam i co raz więcej. Nie da się tego pozbyć czy wycofać. Jest to bardzo okropne gdy nie chcesz słuchać muzyki niektórych artystów którzy popierają wojnę i agresję w Ukrainie i zachęcają do wojny w innych krajach i odebrania czyjeś wolności czy ziemi, a Spotify proponuje ci słuchać ich muzyki, bo uważa że jest to podobne do tej listy którą słucham ja. I niestety nie ma możliwości zaznaczyć że nie interesuje mnie ta muzyka i wykonawcy. 

[ErikV15]

Hi everyone! Is it possible to develop an option to block certain content or shows for appearing in your autoplay? I once made the mistake to listen to a certain podcast, and now it keeps on popping up in Spotify’s autoplay feature. It really drives me crazy.

I know that there is a feature in “Podcasts and Shows” to select “no interest”. However, even when I indicate I am not interested in a particular podcast, it still keeps coming back in spotify's auto play feature.

Please, would it be possible to add a feature where you can block certain content from appearing again? Or at least a feature that modifies the algorithm a bit more aggressively than the existing 'no interest' feature? After all, the latter does not work properly.

[DKPlaylists]

This sounds like a more feasible option than the "dislike button" that other users are fawning over in another thread. A 'not interested' button, so that the user doesn't come across the track/podcast again, is indeed a good idea.

[Guiseppe74]

Not sure.. would this be similar to the "dislike" button?

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/DISLIKE-BUTTON/idi-p/5649968

or to a "block song" option?

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/A-modern-music-app-must-have-a-quot-block-song-quot-opti...

[pbarton9]

If the Autoplay feature is on, I like that I get recommendations on Podcasts and songs. However, to mark a podcast as not interested is very hard to find. I can't do it from the podcast episode or the podcast page. It was very hard to find the "Not interested" option.