Unable to remove songs from Discover Weekly

[_fj1-gf6lbp3h]

I'm on the premium plan, using the Windows desktop app version of Spotify.  I'm trying to remove a song from my Discover Weekly playlist, since it's been there before and I didn't think much of it the first time.  The button to do this has been removed.  I can find old posts explaining where it is, and it's not there any more.  How do I remove this song from my playlist? 

[UsedAtomicBomb]

Another discover weekly without this feature. How is it so hard to reimplement a feature that was already implemented?

[#3]

In meiner App gibt es den Button "Titel ausblenden" (also das ( - ) ) nicht mehr. Neuinstallation, Abmelden, Einstellungen zurücksetzten, haben nichts gebracht. Kennt jemand eine Lösung bitte?
LG Enrico

[Prajonas]

Fix this already. I don't want to listen to Discover Weekly or use your service if I'm forced to listen to songs I don't like

[radioheels]

Same here, and in Daily Mixes as well. 

Anyway, they started being almost impossible to listen to, as they mainly consist of 1+ minute tracks (shorter than 2 minutes), and I'm not into listening to "sample" tracks.

[Sindrom]

This missing button is not a mistake. No mistake like this takes so long to fix while on the mobile app it works fine. This is intentional from Spotify for whatever reason. Be it AI songs getting pushed down our throats or some other reason. 

[Gathenhielm]

I appreciate and frequently use the "Discover Weekly" generated playlists. But the generator is not perfect 🙂 Hence I really appreciated the possibility to hide songs, i.e. preventing them from being played. I also think this is a potential tool for the generator to improve, rather than trying to improve my music taste.

Today I realized the feature seems to have been removed from the desktop app, while still available in the ios app...

Either I did something wrong, else please reconsider to restore the feature!

Using: Spotify for Windows (64 bit) 1.2.53.440.g7b2f582a

[Intis]

Yeah same here, i would appreciate if you stop bricking this app any further and instead of cranking up the price, at least don't break the features that already are there, absolutely disgusting.

[RonnyScheppert]

Why? What could be the reason to remove it from the desktop version? 

Are you trying to disincentivise the usage of the desktop version?

If the algorithm of suggesting music on behalf of my listening history was much better and did not constantly suggest stuff that is not at all fitting, there maybe wouldn't be the necessity of this feature.

But since that is not the case and about 1/3 of my Discover Weekly is not for me, the feature to hide these songs is a prerequisite for using Spotify alltogether.

So, please! Please bring the feature back as soon as possible!

[spazz0]

I'm happy to hear it is a bug instead of a deliberate design choice.

Good luck in fixing it!

[Sindrom]

This "bug" has been reported almost 2 months ago and it is still here. When does it stop being a bug and we acknowledge that this is the new state of the application? 

[spazz0]

Just 6 days ago they again acknowledged trough Eni, the mod, in this thread that it is indeed an issue. And that they're working on resolving this issue as soon as possible.

Being a software developer myself I understand that if they indeed made some "internal changes" that it could mean that they rewrote a large part of their code. And if there are issues with it that it could take a while to fix. So I still have hope that they'll be able to fix it.

Ofcourse this does not make it OK that it is broken and they could've probably tested it more before deploying to everyone. But these things can happen.

[nr4894]

"But these things can happen."

As a software developer, you should also be aware of a thing called "rollback". For a large and rich company like Spotify, there's no excuse for apparently insufficient reviews, insufficient tests (this already happened at least once!) and no rollback mechanism.

[nr4894]

(double post)

[Sindrom]

Software developer here also. On my current project it is unacceptable to break an existing functionality for several months. You do feature flags and keep the old functionality until the new one is ready to be rolled out, then you switch them out. These are not even reasonable excuses.

What is even weirder is that the functionality is still present on mobile app. However, hiding a song from the mobile app does not reflect in the desktop app. Than makes me think that the hiding of a song in the Discover Daily is not tracked in the database and it is only a local change. 

But what do I know? At this point I am just guessing about the application's internal structure and logic. What I am certain about is that this is not a professional way of implementing changes in your application and things could have been handled better.

[spazz0]

I absolutely agree that it is unacceptable to break existing features in production. It appears to be that they did not thoroughly test it enough.

But it might be the case that they migrated to a different framework or rewrote a large part of their code which might be why it's taking long for them to fix it since that would be more difficult to fix. And that could also potentially make a rollback very difficult or impossible

Anyway this bug should've always been intercepted before deploying but I'm just happy that it's a bug and not a design choice also evident in that it works on mobile still.

[Sindrom]

You still believe it is a bug. I don't believe that anymore. Time will tell.

[spazz0]

Why would they remove it only on desktop and not mobile? Also they said so themselves that they're working on fixing it.

I would like to apply this saying here: "Don't attribute to malice (or greed in this case) what can be attributed to incompetence."

But who knows... I will continue to have hope that it will be fixed in the near future though.

[mitusha]

Guys this is not funny. I don't want to listen to russian music. Spotify still recommends me russian tracks. And now I can't just simply dislike it - how can you think this is okay?

[Sindrom]

This is me going back into speculation territory and vague memories, so here we go:

I remember that at some point I look a bit into what technologies are used for building Spotify and if memory serves well they are using for the Frontend side some well known technologies. Webpack for bundling, SASS for styling, Redux for state management on the frontend and the good old React. I did not find anywhere to be said that their mobile apps are native apps so my speculation here is that they are using React Native. Which means that the Frontend, the User Interface, has a single source of truth. Which would mean, again, that this is not a bug but something intentional. 

Why would they do that? Again, speculations over speculations, with the main one being greed for revenue on the AI slop. 

I am definitely on your side of hoping that this is merely incompetence and things will go back to how they were before but I find it hard to believe that this company failed upwards with this level of incompetence. 

Maybe they do A/B testing on this feature removal and we are the suckers that drew the short straw.

I am impatiently awaiting the return of better control over the Discover Weekly playlist. 

[DieProphetin]

Will the option be added back? I don't see the point in using spotify if I have zero control over stuff that's supposedly meant to be curated for me