- Spotify has announced some new app features including a ‘snooze’ button
- This allows you to ban a track from your recommendations for 30 days
- It’s along with other new features tested with premium users
Spotify has been busy making small adjustments to his mobile app, which finally gives you the opportunity to disable his Smart Shuffle feature-and have just announced several, including a potential god-end added ’30 -day snooze ‘.
While Spotify’s music algorithm is one of the things that has kept me with Music Streaming Service for over a decade, it also has annoying blind spots that continuously recommend the same song across automated playlists such as Discover Weekly or Smart Shuffle.
The new ’30 -day snooze ‘button is designed to solve this so you can temporarily remove a track from your recommendations (without eradicating it completely from your musical life). Unfortunately, Spotify is only “starting to test this for premium users” but says it “plans to bring it to more listeners soon”.
The 30-day snooze will be a bonus option among the tracks that you have chosen to ‘hide’ from playlists-this is done by pressing the three dots next to a song and hiding in this playlist ‘. The ‘Snooze’ feature gives you a “Don’t suggest this song everywhere in 30 days”, which applies to all personalized playlists.
If the feature has not rolled out to you yet, Spotify has pushed out some other new adjustments to keep you happy while you wait. The kitchen button (the three lines in the bottom right of ‘now playing’ view) now gives you practical shortcuts to mix, smart blend, repeat and sleep hours.
In a fine-tuning related to 30-day snooze, Spotify will now also show you the recommended songs it plans to play at the end of your queue so you can eject all unwanted ones in advance. Spotify’s ‘Hide’ button is also now more powerful – when you press it, the song will be hidden from the playlist across all your devices, not just the one you are listening to.
Education of the algorithm
These changes are a recording from Spotify that its algorithms don’t always get everything right, and I can definitely see myself using the 30-day snooze when it eventually reaches my premium account.
For some reason, Spotify has sustained recommended Yo La Tengos’Autumnskvis’ Across all my automated playlists. Despite being the least offensive song ever obliged to recorded music, the opening drums now send me in a mild care of rage, even if it is a perfectly comfortable track.
It’s my primary candidate for a 30-day snooze and others on the Techradar team has enthusiastically submitted their, including mk.gee’s ‘Are you looking up‘After an unfortunate incident where our team’s shared playlist was distant co-chosen by our camera editor’s son.
Another new feature I will probably use to escape the algorithm is a fine tuning to ‘likes songs’. It is now possible to use this to build playlists: Tap on a genre in ‘Liked Songs’ playlist and you will now see a new ‘Make this a Playlist’ Option.
We may still not have Spotify HiFi (will it ever arrive?), While both price increases and optional additions seem to be on the cards-but at least Spotify is still to make small, free improvements to save us from lasting earworms.
