Spotify keeps playing hidden songs

[Spoty13]

Since there is no option to delete a song from an album, I hide them and actually I missed that feature from apple music. So there is a lot of hidden songs in my album catalogue and now they just suddenly start to play. Updates and new device didn’t work. If even I hidden and unhide them again, next day same story. How can I fix that help?

[-Karma-]

Spotify being as incompetent as they are straight up just changed the hiding functionality to „Hide in this album“ and for playlists „Hide in this playlist“, admitting that they don’t care to fix this issue. So now since Spotify refuses to fix this issue, I’m not sure what this post is good for going forward?

 

[MISS_A_DELETE_BUTTON]

this case is more serious than JFK.

Might take a century-

if ever solved...

[Nadia_384]

This happens for me immediately after I start playing a playlist on a new device from my phone.

To repro: I cleared my phone cache and updated to v9.0.32.638 of the app. At ~9:18am ET this morning I was playing the “daylist” playlist on my iPhone 15 pro max, iOS 17.6.1. The first song on that is hidden (). I started playing with shuffle disabled and the app correctly skipped that song. Great - fixed it, I thought. through the app, I chose to play the music on my soundbar and skipped to the next song. Immediately the hidden song began to play.

[Vikute_aa]

To this day it hasn't been fixed. Come on Spotify it has been a year and a half. Actually more, since that function NEVER worked. What's crazy is that we pay money and they don't even fix a feature people have been complaining about for YEARS....

[DVVAnimator]

Still an issue, Even with no connected devices/apps still playing hidden songs or blocked artists. it feels like my account is used for farming. PLEASE FIX THIS

[my version is 1.2.60.564.gcc6305cb ]

[Mpeezy2309]

Mine was doing that too. Until I went in and deleted it through the site instead of app. Also you have to unhide or delete the way you hid or added it or it wont do it. So if you clicked playlist and added go playlist hide. If you dod album add album hide and so on. It was also randomly playing songs out loud when I'd be at work. I didn't have any sleep timers set but I did have a routine on so once I deleted the way I added the song that all issues resolved. Oh and unheart or unlike it too prior to hide. Apple user have to do in spotify app. Hope this helps!

[speedyrobin]

I have the same issue with a lot of numbers in the playlist "Summer 2025". I have hidden a number of songs in this list, but the songs keep on being played! And it's all in the same playlist and on the same device

Device: Samsung Galaxy S9, OS version One UI 6.1, Android version 14

Spotify version: 9.0.34.593

Plan: premium

Couple of URI's:

spotify:track:72RjC359lcwhf1cON9ppls

spotify:track:3OJDtCdYs8QJnui708tEU3

spotify:track:4MsGEDdSdgs4lWSJQIIf8z

spotify:track:0uOc3SO3ZkrNeL5khr4GUn

Please make it work (again). But it would be very nice to have the feature to hide a song for always. So no matter what playlist or device!

[silent-watcher]

Hi @Yordan 

No, the issue has not been resolved at all. I'm using the latest available android version.

Could you please retest with the steps I provided here?
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ongoing-Issues/Spotify-keeps-playing-hidden-songs/idc-p/6864479/hig...

They work every time. Same playlist. Same device.

[ultlp]

Plan
Premium
Country
Germany
Device
mac
Operating System
macOS 15.4

My Question or Issue
Spotify keeps playing hidden songs in weekly list

[Yordan]

Hey folks,

Have you tried @Mpeezy2309's method to see if that does the trick for you too?

@silent-watcher, the team was very grateful for your reproduction steps, but unfortunately they weren't able to replicate it on their end. They had some questions however, check them out below:

Spoiler

1. Do your hides work at all? If you don’t follow the steps in your repro guide, but just go to a playlist in Your Library for example and hide a track, does that work?
2. In the repro guide you mention “downloading” a playlist and then playing something from search before you switch to the playlist with items hidden. Is it necessary to download the playlist for it not to work? Does it have to be a track from search that is switched from?
3. Does “Don’t play this artist” work? I.e. if you go to an artist page and select “Don’t play this artist” from the menu, are tracks where the artist is the main artist skipped?
4. If you are in the playlist where the hides don’t work, and make a new hide, do the hides start working? What about removing an old one instead?
5. In case you have another phone, or tablet, Android or iOS, are the hides that you made on your main phone also on the other device? i.e. the same tracks are grayed out in a playlist?

Let us know how it goes 👍