Feature to block songs entirely

[p0cketwatches]

It would be great if we could hide a song entirely, because as far as I'm aware, the way it's supposed to work (but doesn't work right now) is that it only hides it from one playlist. I want to block songs overall.

[KarolNelson]

How do I stop a song thats playing, not just pause it (on a android phone)? Thanks

[LinusCDE98]

I badly need this feature as well. I really like to use the built-in algorithmic playlists to listen to a mix of new songs weekly, the mixes etc.

The problem that has cropped up lately is though, that I have times where spotify recommends me cheap AI music. Personally I don't see that music sung or majorly composed by AI has no place on spotify. Assistance or enhancement is fine if it makes a good song that the artist is proud of. But many of the AI songs (especially those with the ubiquitous voice) just sound bad and the lyrics can sometimes be downright ChatGPT-Trash with no meaning from anyone.

Sadly there is no way to block songs entirely. Blocking artists is a good start, but that option is well hidden, and often I don't think about searching it. And since they're in my weekly mix, they keep up coming back, no matter how often use the dismiss/remove option on songs when present.

[Darkbluewater]

basically Spotify think they have anticipated everything their users want, maybe some would call it intellectual arrogance.

seems a very widespread situation these days.

i guess folks will tolerate this - until there is an alternative, but way I see it they invite a competitor to easy destroy them? then sob sob, why did we think we had all the answers?.

[LinusCDE98]

I have been a loyal Spotify Premium subscriber for probably close to / around 10 years now. I really appreciate spotify. This is why it hurts me so badly, but 1-2 months ago I finally started using a competitor: YT Music.

While YT Music still seems to have a pretty limited set of music for my taste, often I now use them whenever I'm fed up with Spotify, switching between them after a few days.

For me, I already had YT Premium anyway, so it's not an extra cost to me, and YouTube also has years of knowing my habbits as well. Just that I never really used YT for music specifically. But it's actually quite good:

 - Lots of under-appreciated artists that never bothered to really publish their music / remixes, edits. etc
 - AI content is usually way more easy to detect, due to just switching to Video and instantly seeing some badly deformed/animated image of something that Midjourney probably spit out

I really don't like to support YT either and always believed that Spotify is just the plain better place for music. Especially with their generated Playlists and focus being solely on music.

Spotify going into the Podcasting market and making it pretty much proprietary was already a sting to me. But then: Hey, it makes Spotify more independant, sustainable and hopefully can help artists in the long run. And I was never really a big podcast listener anyway. So I can kinda ignore this and spotify thankfully never shoves this down my throat hard and lets me just carry on with music. Not so with AI.

I have heard that Spotify did do some crackdowns on it. But if that means that only the obvious I removed and there is seemingly no way to report music as being almost entirely AI-Generated without any labeling (only sometimes you're lucky if the bio mentions "AI" or is clearly ChatGPT-Written) this makes me just paranoid now.

While YT has easily the same problem, the ratio of new artists compared to AI-Music is way better. So it is not as much of a concern imo, simply because they're huge enough.

If the AI-Music keeps increasing, I'll have to fully switch of spotify sadly. I won't make this choice lightly and don't wanna tbh. But the recent months make me more and more feel, like I'm having my hand forced. While services like Udio and Suno are cool tools to make a quick meme, I don't think that most songs produced by them belong on Spotify. Banning them outright is probably not the perfect choice, but heavy labeling and offering the ability to filter/block it seems like a very necessary thing.

Also kinda related to this topic. Why can I report everything about a song, except the song itself?? I'd be glad help Spotify in pointing out such songs. But it seems like Spotify doesn't even want to know. There has to be some stance taken or it will become a huge issues in a few years. Sure some people will not know better and accept it. But is this the route spotify wants to take: Scare off many past customers and only focus on people that don't mind/know mass-produced AI-Music without any soul. Because flashy "AI ✨" means stocks currently i guess...

[Marion15]

Have you ever been annoyed by a check the box customer service page with no place for asking about something they obviously don't want to know or answer about? Or a dumb AI BOT that asks do you mean this or that?? That has nothing to do with the help I am trying to ask about. It seems to be the mentality of music AI software. Training? Experience? Interest?. No clue about the difference between a SCREAMING guitar In a series of mellow music. A lot like Spot's loud, excited DJ. It could learn sometime, "IF" there was some outside input allowed, 👍 👎 👋 🙉. The best part is coming across Great tunes and moving them to an appropriate custom list as they are discovered."LOUD AND CRAZY" smooth and mellow, etc.