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.

[musziQluvher]

They might be listening. A new option has popped up. Not a dislike button, but an X or + option. If you click the X, it gives you a second, pop up, option "don't show this song anywhere for 30 days". I guess that's their compromise. 😑

For the most part, their algorithm works for my music tastes. It took awhile to fine tune it, but I rarely hear music I don't like anymore. 

[Darkbluewater]

How broad is yr music taste? I guess that will influence their algorithms capability drastically.
Bottom line is if a fruit shop consistently sold you bad oranges would you keep going there for oranges.

[Marion15]

I might go back, if they had other things that I like to use. As long as they didn't try to force oranges on me.

[Marion15]

I share your frustration and would add options.

In addition, I'd add a drop-down check the box.

Add to favorites (+ ♥️)

Not on this list (- ↩️)

Never want to hear this again 

I understand that storing these choices would take a enormous amount of storage for every subscriber for Spot to manage.

It would be more practical for us to store the choices In our cache/APP on our device. Not everyone would use it.

In addition, we all want free stuff that we're not interested enough to pay for. The only way for a company to survive is $.

[thewalrus8]

As of late there seems to be a lot of participation among the Spotify users concerning this subject. Yet those that CAN do something about it, have decided to IGNORE such request.

Perhaps the users are not aware that it is possible to dissable artists outright. Since Spotify doesn't help, each one of us must find a way. So I simply have checked off artists which I don't want to hear (depending on the degree of dislike I may have). I confess that there are certain works that I like, but that is a sacrifice for the greater good.

So there. Opinions are encouraged.

[Marion15]

My workaround is to create my own lists. I add to them as I hear good stuff. 

Surprising: The AI Bot seams to be paying attention. When a list has ended, it continues with Bot recommended tracks. For a long time, it was easy to tell when my list ended by the choices the Bot added. The recommended add-ons have improved over time, The screaming guitars and vocals seldom follow my mellow music lists anymore. I can go for a long time without skipping a track or changing lists. In addition, I've been able to add some recommended tracks the Bot shared.

Another trick is to save and rename a OK Spot list into a new list name, then go in and delete music that doesn't work for me.

[Marion15]

OnLy TNT 

Made a very good point.

It hasn't been recognized by people that can only see the problem from the user point of view.

Offending artist contributors by openly rejecting some of their work is bad for business. It could lead to withdrawal of all their music and other artists in sympathy. It has been done for political & business reasons. “Unavailable tracks”

I'm sure the statistics are on file along with the song SKIP & FF button. I'm not familiar with digital rights management details, but there could be conflicts and cost/benefit analysts mixed into a simple button. 

And they wouldn't choose to share the real reason for ignoring the issue or Just saying NO button for disliking a song. The workarounds are simple, without the side effects. Loosing a few non subscribing free users might be less important than losing the artist complete collection.

I have my likes and dislikes (DJ) but I like to understand the details why we were forced into using it without a delete exit option. 

[AndySparx]

On PC, the hide button used to exist, but it's now absent, and the only reason I can even tell is because I'm no-longer listening to my liked songs. This feature is mandatory on every platform as it's the only thing allowing me to curate what I'm listening to in any capacity. The fact that Spotify has removed this feature honestly makes me want to go to Bandcamp because they don't remove things people always use.

It used to be right between "add to queue" and "start jam"

[Eclipse318]

Completely agree. Why was this taken away? It was suggested in 2021, implemented (in a hidden menu on mobile only apparently), now it's gone again. WHY? Shoving horrible podcasts into my home page is not going to "help me discover" that I suddenly like horrible podcasts. I pay for this service, I expect some control over what's being shoved into my home feed in the name of "discovery." If you absolutely must jam garbage into my home page, at least let me turn it off so I never have to see it again, and so it doesn't bury things I actually do like. It's not hard, people.

[Marion15]

It is as insulting as G👀gle Apps. And impossible to stop.  I don't understand how they think it's attractive? Some just accept and ignore. “Resistance is futile”  Subscription helps filter some of it. They try to work around. We pay one way or another.