DISLIKE BUTTON

[zphil777]

If i hate a song, then I don't want to hear it ever again. All of us run into this on an hourly basis. Every single day. Why in the world cant we dislike (or thumb down) a song to remove it from existence? Why do you torture us by playing songs we don't want to hear?

There is a "hide" option (only on mobile), and its playlist specific. The desktop version doesn't even have this somewhat-useless feature.

So I vote for a universal dislike button. No playlist limitations. No desktop vs mobile limitations. No buttons hidden in submenus. Just a simple, easily accessible button that can eliminate our headaches once and for all.

[Sp00nless]

I miss the option where you could block song and or even artist from poping up in playlists.

[Uncle_Vee]

@Sp00nless, I hid a song sometime this year and it still played the song regardless. The algorithm is not that great right now.

[kyeky]

I hide songs by some artists in my daily mixes but Spotify continues to add those artists to them. It's really annoying

[p_rh-9g1oim5b]

This was a feature that was available in the past and was removed for absolutely no reason. It should have never been removed and has been requested multiple times to be reinstated.

Spotify keep ignoring it, like many other features, but they are a-okay to charge more.

[Darth_GTB]

> This was a feature that was available in the past and was removed for absolutely no reason

From what you say, if they removed this and never brought back, together with ads that seem to feed you ads on bands from genres you do not listen to and recommending songs that have nothing to do with the playlist you are listening to, I think the real reason is probably money

My hypothesis is that there is lobby from studios to prevent music from _not_ being fed to you so it would artificially inflate listening count

[AndrewBlizard]

I would like this. I listened to an EDM song with some hip-hop and rap artists singing non-rap vocal lines and now the Spotify DJ keeps trying to play me rap and hip-hop. I don't want to listen to it.

The Release Radar playlist used to have a way to say "I don't like this" but that seems to have been removed. Now there's just a "(-)" minus button that doesn't prevent the same artists abusing artist mis-attribution from showing up in my Release Radar week after week.

[sentient_sea_anemone]

Yes!! I'm so sick and tired of not being able to block artists! This is especially a problem for me because spotify keeps trying to play songs from artists with EXTREME controversies that i don't want to support!!! I would very much like to block those kinds of artists and never see them again. I heard they used to let people block artists, but removed it for no reason. BRING IT TF BACK SPOTIFY!!!!!!!

[Marion15]

If You Tag LIKED songs and create  your own play lists of artists with the tagged music It doesn't take long to have a library of music you like. I tend to play my lists until I get sick of listening to them then start looking for others. and compiling new lists. Also It's easy to delete music you are tired of but still like from your play lists they remain in liked list until removed.

[rynorshine]

I agree. I don't understand why there is an option to block an artist but not a song or album. Spotify's algorithm keeps feeding me songs I don't like and hiding them in a playlist (like the daylist for example) not only doesn't stop the song from playing elsewhere, but it will continue to pop up in the playlist, taking up space where another song could go. If I want to stop a specific album or song from playing entirely I'm SOL unless I block the artist entirely which I don't want to do.

[MoonSkaype]

I agree, it would be very, very nice to have a dislike option. Sometimes spotify plays random songs or recommends songs that are deeply upsetting. It keeps recommending them to me or putting them on recommended lists. They don't resemble anything in any of my other playlists. But, I bet it's something about "not censoring/shadow banning" certain artists. However, I feel like it's not really doing that since it's the choice of individual users and it's not actually spotify refusing to host content, and is functionally the equivalent of a user changing the station on the radio.