Add a “Dislike” Button with Reason to Improve Recommendations

[xm39sup4han48lxuhc7e]

I really love Spotify, but I often get recommendations that I absolutely dislike. For example, I keep receiving religious songs, which I don’t want to hear at all. It would be very helpful to have a private “Dislike” button, with the option to select a reason (e.g., not my genre, too repetitive, offensive, etc.). This way, the algorithm could learn more accurately and provide a truly personalized experience.

Thanks

Guillermo Nario

[StThiccolas]

Spotify has a hide feature that prevents songs you don't like from being played. It's pretty visible on the desktop app, but it's hidden behind an options button on the mobile app; I'd love to see the button be made more visible on the mobile platform. I assume that hiding a song also influences what songs Spotify recommends to you in radios, but if that's not currently a feature it definitely should be

[dofr]

The hide button seems to have nothing to do with how the algorithm works. It only hides for 30 days.

I like and listen to no music in the genre 'jungle' (a genre characterized by heavy use of the 'jungle beat') and I hide every song i come across.Yet, in my discover weekly, in my recommendeds, in the new multi-genre discover weekly, jungle beat poisons every single thing I listen to. I want webcage, i want 100gecs, i want jakube, i want erickd. I want no jungle beat.

I absolutely despise this genre as a result of this. my algorithm is poisoned and i can't find a way to unpoison it.

[dofr]

Adding on, I never 'like' anything with jungle beat. I have excluded all my 'recommendation' (weekly, release radar, etc.) playlists from 'my taste profile'.

In my discover weekly, we get like 5 genres at the top now right? One of mine is just 'jungle'. Not only that, every other genre will be littered with jungle trash. if i wanted jungle that bad, you'd think my likes and playlists would be full of it right? I have like 5k songs liked and i guarantee less than 2% of that even has a smidge of the jungle beat that would technically qualify it as the genre. like 2 aphex twin songs, maybe.