"The service will now allow users to exclude certain tracks from influencing their taste profile. This taste profile refers to streamer's sense of your personal musical taste and interests, and it drives Spotify's recommendations, including your Discovery Weekly, Home page selections, annual Wrapped experience, Blend playlists with friends, and more. The company had previously allowed users to exclude certain playlists from their taste profile, but this didn't solve the problem overall of having music you're not really into influence Spotify's recommendations."
"With this new feature, you can move through your recently played items to tell Spotify that there are some songs you were playing but don't actually like. (Parents everywhere, rejoice!) To use the feature, both free and premium users can tap the three dots on the top-right corner of your screen after selecting the song they want to exclude. Users can then choose to exclude the song from their taste profile or include a previously excluded song."
"Spotify's hyperpersonalization has been a long-time key selling point for the service. But there are many scenarios where the ingestion of everything you listen to into algorithms doesn't make sense. Families, particularly those with small children, immediately come to mind. Users also often share their Spotify account while in the car with friends and family, allowing others to take their turn at playing DJ."
Spotify added a control that allows users to exclude individual tracks from their taste profile, which shapes Discovery Weekly, Home page picks, Wrapped, Blend playlists, and other recommendations. Users can navigate recently played items and mark songs they were listening to but do not like. Both free and premium users can tap the three dots after selecting a song to exclude or re-include it. The company previously allowed excluding entire playlists, which helped limit influence from activities like sleep music. Manual exclusions address shared-account and family listening issues, but a more robust solution beyond manual selection would be preferable.
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