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[Playlists] Remove a song from a Blend and prevent similar songs

I had a suggestion for the new Spotify Blends that came out for Spotify. I really like this new feature and I think Spotify has done a really good job with it!

 

However, I listen to a genre that my friends do not like. I noticed that a lot of music of that genre appeared in my Spotify Blends even though I have other music in common with my friends that could appear instead. Right now, the only option is to 'hide the song' but that only works to hide the song from your own device.

 

Can we have a 'remove from playlist' option for songs that we don't like in the Blend? Removing the song should ideally be permanent, and should work on the entire playlist on all devices. Also, once we remove songs from the Blend, then can it prevent similar songs/songs of that genre from appearing again in the Blend? It would be even better if right after we remove a song, it is instantly replaced by a song that is different from it like it is learning from the feedback.

 

Thanks!

Updated on 2022-06-24

Hey! Looks like your idea is growing up fast and it's amazing! We are going to change its status to 'Good Suggestion' now and we hope it continues being supported by more and more users.
Thanks again for your suggestion. We really appreciate it 🙂

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Comments
beetleyee

A user should be able to remove their own songs from a Blend playlist and have it replace itself with another song.

michaelsmusic94

Hi, 

 

My partner and I love our blended playlist and listen to it often in the car together. However we suspect there is a feedback loop, songs that entered the playlist via my partner's choice (and songs that i don't choose to listen to outside of the blended playlist) eventually get labelled as from both of us.

 

In addition, if we both stop choosing to listen to a song (but continue to listen to the blended playlist), the song will remain in the playlist for long after the time we've both moved on from the track.

 

The blended feature is great, it could be improved if it's recommendations were not informed by plays from the playlist itself thus preventing feedback loops 

 

 

michaelsmusic94
Hi, the suggestion my post was merged with is different to mine. Their
suggestion is the ability to manually remove songs, my suggestion is to
prevent the blended playlist using its own plays as evidence that a user
likes and listens to that song, this is a solution that does not require
user intervention.