[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!

[viny7]

Oh yeah, I'll upvote this. Super annoying that the Home Screen has suddenly changed, especially on CarPlay. This went from being a relatively simple and easy way to find music I wanted to listen to while driving, and now my suggested mixes and music (!) playlists have been buried below a bunch of Podcasts that I could give @$%! about. Now it's flat out dangerous.

I will be doing trials of Apple Music and YouTube Music the next few weeks to decide which one I move my family to after I cancel my Spotify Subscription.

[Xblaauw]

I don't need to edit every aspect of the home screen. I just need an option in the drop-down menu to remove a specific podcast from showing up in my home screen. Do not ask me to vote in a 3 year old poll. Just make the Fv<king button already, god damned amateurs.

executive summary:

WE NEED THE OPTION TO REMOVE A SPECIFIC PODCAST FROM OUR HOME SCREEN

[Zanzoola]

Come on, Spotify! Every time I open my client I get smacked in the face with a box that says "**bleep** w/Emily". I cannot fathom that you would require something like that to be on the Your Shows tab with no option to delete it, or delete Your Shows, or just move it elsewhere. I certain my coworkers who walk by think I'm some sort of perv when "**bleep** w/Emily" is one of the primary items on my Spotify.

I'm paying for this? Get it fixed. 

[soobin-ssi]

we are paying for a music streaming service. however, a simple addition of the option to remove certain episodes or playlist from our homepage will be a better user interface. As some of the aforementioned playlists and episodes have a lewd art. basically softcore "corn" I hope u take this idea into consideration.

[mountainwalker]

Just adding my voice - the non-relevant home page is my biggest negative about Spotify, and I see it every time I start the app.  It's too hard to find my own items.  Please change the home page so premium users can display what we want.

[Matoada]

Adding my voice too. Please only alow remove some podcast from fontpage.
Premium user.

[115355715]

I appreciate your decision to label this thread 'not right now', but the continuous swapping and changing of the homepage is reaching annoying levels. Especially all the 'look at this' content meant that I have difficulties finding the music I actually WANT.    I switched off the app twice in the past week because it was getting too complicated and just switched on the radio instead. I don't think that is what you're hoping for.

The is especially the case with podcasts where I listen to ONE podcast on your platform which is hard to get elsewhere, yet a considerable portion of my homescreen is now dedicated to podcasts. 

I used to be a fan because you were quite customer-centric. But I am finding myself  looking at other music services. Stop pushing product, start listening to users. 

[Fred_F]

Allowing subscribers to customize their Spotify would be a big boost.
95 procent of my home screen is complete nonsense to me.
Podcasts I've listened to for one minute stay forever, impossible to get rid of.
Now a lot of Christmas music is highlighted and I'm completely uninterested in Christmas music.
I think Spotify should separate podcasts and music into two different tabs at the top of the app.

[hallowayillu]

Adding to page 105 of this idea because it's come to my attention spotify implements very few of its most liked ideas. You can find other most liked ideas by erasing content in the search bar and hitting enter, then sorting by likes. You might also notice that "popular ideas," "trending ideas," and "new ideas" on the ideas landing page are under 1000 likes each. It's clear the likes feature is a way to manage user expectations.

It'd be great to have a customizable start page. I accidentally clicked through some erotic stories podcasts for funsies, giggling at some of the content, only for it to constantly show up in suggested content at work. That's always fun for my coworkers to see. 

Spotify, you could keep your financially beneficial influence on us and allow some basic customization. Would love if I could move mixes/moods to the top, move recent away completely or away from the top. It'd be cool to have a couple sections to chose the topic of (e.g. suggestions by genre/artist/track of choice), choose to remove the giant banner if you find it offensive (I'm not Christian. I don't want Christmas content forced all over the app). I don't want to see the clutter of my own saved podcasts' shows at the top. Get this, if I want to see my own saved podcasts, I'll click on podcasts. Agreed the current layout with 6 very different suggestions based off of recent listening is a great option to see first thing upon loading the service, but then right underneath it they are often repeated (shocker). Lost opportunity for Spotify to guide their users or more. See picture for reference.

[user-removed]

Yes, please, make Home Screen customizable so users can decide what to see there. 
In my case, I don’t want/need podcasts to show up every time I open Spotify. I use Apple Podcasts for that. I just need Spotify for listening to music.