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[Browse] Allow to change Country Origin Suggestions

Hi there,

 

I think many users get annoyed by those "local" recommendations that are based on the country that is chosen by their payment method.

E.g. I'm living in Europe, where English language is not local language, and I'm getting recommendations for the local songs, which I don't like, and I'd prefer English music over that, is there any chance I could change my country of recommendations to US or Canada? 

 

Thanks

Updated on 2020-02-24

Hey folks,


We appreciate you coming to the Community, and adding your votes and comments to this idea.


We're setting this idea to 'Not Right Now', as this isn't something we have any immediate plans to implement.
If we do have any new info to share, rest assured we'll check back in here with a new status.


Thanks

Comments
newbie06

Most of these comments date way back. 

im writing in 2024 and aside from thanks for getting in touch what has changed ? 

i speak French :

on my iPhone Spotify is in French : but some menus  in profile are popping up in German ???!!!! Hello ???!!!! 

on my iPad Spotify is in English, but anything I wish to do that is linked to profile issues & tah dah : back into German. 

it’s incredibly frustrating that US companies are continually not taking into account the other national languages all the way through the different menus. 

kindly fix. We circumvent because Spotify is a great app, but as users we keep getting thanked without issues being sorted out / or there being updates…

 

knidly fix. With thanks & best wishes.. 

gqml8vsuqs153qz52hc8

Hi, so I want podcasts in Spanish but the search keeps on giving me results in czech since I live in CZ, it would be cool if one could pick the language they want the output in

Krzysztofleski

So does anything changed in the status from 4 years ago?

 

joriswitteman

Spotify often seems to prioritize national content (Dutch in my case) when I open my Home page or search for stuff.

 

I happen to absolutely detest anything that comes out of my country music wise. Also I'm not even there at present.

 

Is there a way to remove domestic content from being prioritized? Can I remove my country from my profile for example?

 

Using Spotify for iPhone and Mac.

arthurm76

It would useful to have a setting controlling which podcasts or authors are suggested based on preferable languages. So that languages, I don't want to see, are not being listed for me. Annoying thing for me personally now, is that podcast suggestions are based on also on the area my account is connected to. I don't nesecairly want to listen podcasts of this country and in this language, songs included. 

This should probably be connected to app language at first but also chanagble so that users speaking multiple languages can see more of what they want and only this.

kevindenotariis

The fact that after 7 years this is still not implemented is quite annoying and worrying..

If I am living abroad, why is spotify assuming I want to listen to local music?
Why is spotify assuming that nobody is interested in listening to other countries' songs and having them in the feeds?

I mean, this issue has quite some votes, so there is no need to assume, it is pretty clear that such a feature would be very appreciated by the consumers (and needed in some cases)

Aimjock

I don’t welcome country-specific recommendations. This part of Spotify has been a gripe for me since I first started using it. Even when I search for songs, artists, albums, or playlists in English, I’ll still get recommendations in my country’s native language – recommendations that are typically not relevant.

 

I, and many other users, would sincerely appreciate a toggle in the settings to disable country-specific recommendations. Rather than recommending songs, albums, etc. based on my region, I want recommendations based on what is relevant globally. If this is not feasible, an alternative would be an option to select a different region that will be used for recommendations, as many websites offer.

Hysterresis

We know that Spotify don't care about us ...

 

In Switzerland we can talk 3 languages in the same city. Spotify is so lost to suggest recommendations. Just add a parameter with the preferred languages for song and podcasts.

tomreed

Im ukrainian, and I get a lot of russian music in my suggestions, mixed by spotify, just because we both use Cyrillic. I want to filter out languages Im trying to avoid / filter only language I want.