[Music] Block / Hide / Blacklist Tracks or Artists

[Viktor]

The Star feature should be complemented with a way to mark tracks as excluded. Those tracks would then be skipped even when included in the current playlist.
This way the enjoyment of a good album wouldn't be disrupted by tracks you don't like, while the album in its entirety can still be kept in the playlist.
The Anti-star can easily be implemented as a flipside to the regular star as they are mutually exclusive. Click the star once, the track becomes a favorite. Click again, the star icon changes to the anti-star and click a third time and either flag is gone.

A no-brainer to me.

[colthard]

for $10 a month i definitely feel like i should be able to blacklist an album or artist completely, regardless of the reason.

not being able to do so is my only complaint thus far though with the service, i just hope that they eventually add this feature.

[Tetratrio]

Hello fellow Spotify users. Today is the first day that I actually wanted to block an artist. I searched for "Around the world" cos I wanted to play the bass line of that song on my bassguitar. I clicked the top song just as I am used to cos Red hot chili peppers' songs are always on top ;D but to my dismay I heard something horrible. It was justin bieber singing something like "girl girl bla bla". His song was on the top! f that! I need this feature right now goddangit!! Spotify crew please fix this or get rid of bieber and you will have my thanks

[kbelzowski]

I've been thinking about this as well for a while. I like to queue up a new playlist in my desktop app or mobile app and while I listen to it I star the track if I really like it and I don't star it if I don't particularly like it. This works great for the songs I love but later while in the Spotify App I have no idea if I didn't listen to a song before or if I listened to it and I didn't like it. It gets really hard to tell if things are in Shuffle mode!

A thumbs up (star) and a thumbs down (anti-star) approach would really help when filtering through the endless amounts of music in Spotify. This is one of my most desired functions within Spotify.

[tacos]

This isn't really that complicated.  Implement a 'Never play this song' and a 'Never play this artist' feature.  Simple.

Seriously.  If I want to listen to Billboard top hits, I don't want to hear Jay Z talking about how hard his balls are.  He probably has some epididymal blockage or testicular cancer.  It would be great if I could just never have to hear that track again.  He can go on having his "hard-ball" friends and I will go on enjoying the rest of the chart.

[jarhead2000]

Kind of like the "Star" feature, you can click on a something like an "X" declaring you HATE that song and it will skip over that song in ANY of your playlists or radio stations. Pretty much just a universial please stay out of my life, kay thanks. And of course being able to access a list of those songs unless you change your mind.

[Liam]

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@jarhead2000 wrote:

Kind of like the "Star" feature, you can click on a something like an "X" declaring you HATE that song and it will skip over that song in ANY of your playlists or radio stations. Pretty much just a universial please stay out of my life, kay thanks. And of course being able to access a list of those songs unless you change your mind.

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Really nice idea 😉

I will use it often!

[itskaysterr]

Ugh. I would LOVE this.

[neo-x]

I like the idea. This would surely help out, since there are artists that I don't enjoy that much, so them being on a subscribed playlist is just bad. If this function would just "flag" the song to never be plaid even if on ANY playlist - then this is certainly a must. Kudod+

[neo-x]

http://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Ideas/Block-Hide-Blacklist-tracks-or-artists/idi-p/22389 Actually a kinda duplicated idea I'm seeing.

[Rocio]

hello folks, I just merged a new idea to this one since it was requesting the same feature.

Please add your kudos and comments if you want to see this implemented it 😉

Thanks everyone for your awesome feedback!