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.

[carthagebp]

Came to suggest this, because it's absolutely necessary. I'm getting songs in Daily Mix that are so far removed from anything else I listen to, and there's no way to consistently prevent them from appearing again. I skip them, I try to remove them, but there's no consistent, permanent preventative function.

[tomcnumber12]

There should absolutely be a feature to block certain artists or especially people in general from podcasts, etc. Would love to be able to block the artist/person so that I don't have to keep scrolling past their stuff when I have no intention of clicking on it. Also, it should help the algorithm know what to stop pushing on my suggestion lists.

[musziQluvher]

so, this idea has been floating around since 2015 🤣🤣🤣. how many votes does a thing need before it will seriously be considered? Askin for a friend. I'm the friend. I'm asking for me.

[nic9034]

I feel like Spotify heavily relies on your liked/played songs to build playlists. Sometimes when I play the generated playlists its to discover new music. I wish there was a slider type feature where I could specify how much I wanted to hear of familiar/liked music to completely new music. Often times the same song (or set of songs) will come up again and again across playlists and I have no way to set a preference.

[Puglifiled]

With a DISLIKE track/song button, I might actually start listening to Spotify recommendations and other people's playlists.

[Luan]

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[kevron75]

My Question or Issue

On any device, on any plan, Spotify has decided you don't need to dislike songs.  There are times that an artist I love has a song that I hate.  I want to remove that song from existence on Spotify, but Spotify has determined that I can't do that.  They instead will only let me hide it from specific playlists or radio stations.  

Why doesn't Spotify have this BASIC tool?  I should be able to dislike one particular song (even if I'm using the web interface), without affecting any other songs from the same artist.  As it is, Spotify is losing money because I find myself returning to other streaming platforms.  I am sure I'm not alone in this.  

So please, Spotify moderators, read this and pass it along to the powers that be.  Give us a dislike option that is account global!!!  

[studeimus]

Astounding omission! 😒

[dudewad]

Yes, PLEASE implement this. This feature has been missing for over a decade.

For the "hide song" feature, I get the idea, maybe, of adding a way to remove a song from a public playlist per user - fine, that makes sense, if the user doesn't want to hear that song on the specific playlist for whatever reason. But this seems like a more advanced version of a "dislike" feature and that it was developed out of order. A much more core and obviously useful feature to have created would have been a "dislike" feature.

For songs that I actually strongly dislike, I have no option for Spotify to just never play that song because I dislike it.

To have implemented a feature to "dislike-ish" a song but not to permanantly blacklist said song has always confused me.

An important thing to include for this feature is to make it apply to all entity types - artists, songs, albums, whatever - anything that can algorithmically come up via autoplay/radio functionality.

As a user who uses Spotify most of the day every single day, I run into this frustration of having to manually skip tracks multiple times a day, every day. This is particularly annoying when I don't readily have access to player controls (phone in pocket, computer acrsos the room) or am simply focused on something and "that annoying saxophone has suddenly invaded my home again".

Take into account the fact that the "hide song" feature is defficient in multiple ways:

1) Only applies to a single context; every single other context in which that song appears (and believe me, it will appear again) have to be "reminded" that I don't like this song.

2) Is not available in all contexts - random playlists I find, etc.

3) Is not available on all platforms - Spotify for Windows, for instance, does not seem to possess this feature, anywhere - if it does, it's not in any of the contexts I use regularly.

4) As I type this, a song just came on that, you guessed it, I strongly dislike, and now I have to stop typing to go change it.

I'm happy to write the users stories for this feature. I'm your target user!

Hope this helps!

[zerocontrast]

For anyone that votes for this post, also check out this older one that already has over 5,000 votes

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/All-Platforms-quot-Don-t-Like-Button-quot-should-be-adde...

It's been marked as a "good idea", but maybe with enough votes, Spotify will finally do what people have been asking for for years.