Spotify is permitting customers to exclude particular person tracks from their “Style Profile” content material algorithm. The feature is now available globally totally free and Premium listeners throughout Spotify’s internet, desktop, and cellular apps, making it simpler for customers to affect the music that the platform will counsel sooner or later.
Spotify’s algorithm shapes music suggestions and personalizes experiences like Wrapped and Mix based mostly on what you hearken to and the way you hearken to it. Playlists might already be excluded, however now customers can have extra granular management over particular songs, serving to to forestall explicit earworms from influencing future suggestions.
“Excluding a observe will reduce the influence of each previous and future streams of that music in your suggestions, so your ‘only for the second’ listening doesn’t find yourself skewing your Spotify expertise,” the corporate mentioned in its announcement. You may entry the characteristic by choosing a music or playlist, tapping the three-dot menu on the top-right nook of the display, and selecting the “Exclude out of your Style Profile” possibility.