- Spotify has brought out a new feature that allows you to exclude individual songs from your taste profile
- Before now you can exclude playlists but this is the first time Spotify gives you the opportunity to exclude tracks
- The purpose of this feature is to give you more control over which songs Spotify recommends you, and also helps tailor a more accurate Spotify -wrapped Summary
Spotify is proud of its personalization features, and it is expanded to this with a new setting that allows you to exclude individual songs from your taste profile to give you more control over what music appears in your recommendations.
When you roll out to all Premium subscribers globally, you can now remove traces from your taste profile, which is Spotify’s interpretation of your music preferences and listening habits and can be used on Spotify’s mobile, web and desktop versions. It is also very easy to activate.
To exclude a song from your taste profile, find the track you want to exclude (whether in an album or playlist) and press the three dots next to it. Then just roll down to select ‘Exclude traces from your taste profile’ and Spotify will do the rest.
Before now, Spotify has always enabled you to exclude entire playlists from your taste profile – it even allows you to block individual artists, which is a feature I often use. However, this has not always had the greatest influence on shaping your Spotify algorithm when it comes to song recommendations, wrapped and discovering weekly and mixing plate lists.
It is not to say that you will never be able to listen to an excluded song ever again – you will. The purpose of this feature is simply to help clean up your algorithm a little more. This will come along well if you listen to sleep sounds at night and will prevent Spotify from recommending them, or even if you have young children hijacking your account for their own entertainment. For me it is another scenario.
The guilty pleases haunting my recommendations
Every time I come across a song that invokes a certain feeling, I go off on a bit of tangence. It often results in me disappearing down a guilty pleasure black hole and my usual listening habits go out the window.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m a sucker for a guilty pleasure pop banger, but I also listen to a lot of other genres, so you can imagine how frustrating it might be to watch my Spotify website flooded with made of pop mixtures just because I listened to Gimme more of Britney Spears once on a Tuesday night.
I have recently started using the private listening session mode in Spotify to fight this as this has no influence on Spotify’s recommendation algorithm. A private listening session automatically ends after six hours, but sometimes I forget to turn it off before then, which means the music I will actually include in my taste profile is not recognized by Spotify.
Although exclusive individual songs from your taste profile may not be the most effective way to tailor Spotify’s recommendations, it can certainly add an extra layer of insurance that your end of year wrapped summary is an accurate reflection of your listening habits.
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