[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!

[MrBue]

The new "no interest" function really exists, but NOT on the home page, you have to click the "Music" or "Podcasts" tabs at the top first. There you can then click on "no interest" for each individual album or podcast.

Nice that there is finally this new function, but why so hidden and not simply on the home page? Typical Spotify.

Nobody uses those stupid tabs!!!

edit: ...and podcast episodes that are suggested to me as "episodes you're interested in", that's exactly where this "not interested" doesn't work...SPOTIFY, you just don't get it!!!!

 

[bsford16]

Great, thank you. Happy to see this implemented, but as you say @MrBlue,
strange placement.

[wanderphx]

11,000+ likes and it isn't enough for Spotify to care enough to even give us a reason beyond "not right now".  Props to finally adding a "not for me feature".  There is still hope!

Still...his tells me the company cares little for the users experience--maybe as an after-thought.   Instead it seems there are other priorities.  Profit maybe?  Maybe they realized that by controlling what people see they can better manipulate behavior to their liking.  Another good software company turns into a profit?-blinded zombie.🧟 🤦

[sazin]

Why do I have on the Start screen in Episodes for you  as the first - Erotic stories  in my Spotify/ Premium account !  ???
I didn't choose it or set it up, and it's certainly an aggressive campaign... yes, but i dont agree with this..
- result in me ending up using and paying for Spotify…

who agrees, give a like even if they move their ass 😞

[MJDragon]

I am having a problem where the podcast that I didn't follow or interact is on the main home page where it says good morning or good evening. Is there any way to delete the podcast from the home screen.

Is it possible for you guys to add this feature to manage your recently played?

[KazimierzOO]

I have a podcast that i only played once to check, I did not like it, but now it's lurking on my Spotify home screen forever. It pisses me off and it is unacceptable that I can not remove that sh..t. 

If your status is 'not right now' I'm going to move to Prime Music until this issue is resolved.

[havenhillm5]

please bring back the feature to Heart a song I miss it very much and it is making Spotify less enjoyable and frustrating bc it would help me to know if I have already listened to that song but now I have to physically click on the song to see if i had heard it before or not which is very time consuming and a inconvenience. The heart was also very pleasing to the eye and made sense now the plus button just doesn’t. is a petition out there to bring back the heart

[MrBue]

When the "new" Spotify comes, we will have much bigger problems than those with podcasts, etc.

The app could then also be called TikSpot 2.0. 🤢

[twoheadedboy81]

It sucks that I have no ability to remove a podcast I am no longer interested in from my home page. I used the linked instructions, but it only removed it 3 clicks deep on mobile, not from the most conspicuous place(s).

[orinn]

Currently ‘New Episodes’ sits towards the top of Home on the Spotify App.

I want to preface this with a thank you for your work on Podcasts, it’s incredibly useful. However there is one small kink, and that is the New Episodes section can often spoil the mood.

This is something which I actively try to avoid, with little success. For after seeing and interacting with these - even for a brief moment - the mood is ruined and instead we are looking at YouTube style thumbnails in a space viewing the same (frankly sometimes a little narcissistic and occasionally repulsive content found in some of the tiles - note, I have nothing against the good people making podcasts or this content when I am searching it out first hand, just those I am forced to view the face of and interact with every day which make my life a little worse when it’s not desired), rather than the more free space of pure intent found when viewing the rest of the music. I say this because it does not happen when just viewing the music, only the noise, business, and (sometimes) pollution of the New Episodes section - for those of us who do not wish to engage with ’hyper’ internet culture all the time, a redesign or way for us to get around this would be helpful. I hope that is fair to say and that you may understand. Sorry if that steps over a line.

One of Spotify’s best features has always been it’s minimal user interface and almost zen-like experience. Currently this threatens that.

As a compromise, I’m happy to avoid Home altogether however unfortunately the App will automatically browse there, at which point the damage is done. It’s also the best place to view recently viewed playlists. I propose a switch which can be enabled within settings to filter this section out or more thought by your Product team, if they desire, into the best option given this new user feedback (perhaps leading to the holding fast of keeping the section but having it collapsed by default.)

As it stands, it seems small but the experience is degraded to the point I have considered surveying alternatives - which I would prefer to avoid as all of my data is in Spotify and you’re generally very good. 

Thanks

KR