[All Platforms][Discover] Setting to Exclude Cover Songs from Discover Weekly

[cphilippsen]

I must admit that Cover tracks has started to annoy me quite a bit, so much that I've unfollowed the playlist. I'm pretty sure that at least 20 of the 30 tracks are cover tracks.

What happened to the recommendation engine?

Listening to an original artist multiple times != recommendation of listening to a cover artist.

I would suggest a settings option to clear cover tracks from Discover Weekly.

[Jonahman10]

I feel like this may be tricky to implement, becuase it is difficult to find a way to find out which tracks are covers. Especially in a field like Orchestral music, where you might say every recording is a cover! And sometimes the "original version" is not actually the original, just the version that made it famous.

[blake]

Updated: 2016-05-31

Marked as New Idea and edited title to make it easier to find via search.

[blake]

I believe @Jonahman10 is right, this could be challenging to implement. You may also want to add your support to this idea about controlling the Discover Weekly playlists.

[Marco]

Edit: This idea has been reposted here.

Updated on 2017-05-26

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