Sick of Bad Songs Popping Up in Your Spotify Playlists? Now You Can Block Them

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Does a song you hate consistently pop up in your personalized Spotify playlists? The music-streaming service will now allow you to tell the app which songs you don’t enjoy.

Spotify utilizes a feature called Taste Profile to determine future recommendations. This algorithm then informs what appears in playlists, such as Discover Weekly and Blend, as well as what appears on your Home page. You can now tell Spotify which individual tracks you don’t want to appear in future playlists, removing them from your Taste Profile.

To do this, find the song and press on the three-dot menu to the right of the track. You’ll find an option called Exclude from your Taste Profile. If you ever want to add this back to your recommendations, find the track and press Include in your Taste Profile.

Previously, Spotify allowed you to exclude entire playlists from your Taste Profile. Now you can drill down to specific songs.

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This may be particularly useful for avoiding tracks that others in your household favor. Listening to a lot of KPop Demon Hunter’s Golden while driving the kids to school? Use this to avoid it appearing in your personal playlists.

Deezer and Tidal offer similar block features, and each goes one step further, allowing you to block the back catalog of individual artists. YouTube Music allows you to remove songs from your history so they won’t impact your algorithm, but that’s a cumbersome process to go through on a regular basis. Apple Music lets you Dislike songs to encourage them to be removed from your recommendations, but it’s not as strong the Deezer and Tidal’s block feature.