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Spotify needs to enable dislike on any song playing, not just in discovery playlists.

dajohnson89 6y ago
yes please. i'll never understand why this isn't default behavior.
vmception 6y ago
oooooh I thought Spotify just had a schizophrenic A/B test started every other quarter, I didn't realize the UI changes are contingent on what kind of song list you were listening to.
- dcbadacd 6y ago
  They do have schizophrenic A/B testing though. Just recently they started playing the exact same ads but sometimes they have a few syllables messed up. I think I now have first-hand experience in being gaslit, it really makes you doubt your sanity if you heard the "same" ad but "wrong".
  - tbodt 6y ago
    That could be advertisers doing schizophrenic A/B testing rather than Spotify.
    - dcbadacd 6y ago
      They're "Spotify premium" ads though.
LoathsLights 6y ago
I wish we could just "ban" a song from ever playing, that way I won't have to make a new playlist from an existing one just because i don't want to listen to these one or two songs I find super annoying. I have playlists that work as filters for me, if I'm mass copying a playlist I first put it into the filter playlist, then I press "skip duplicates" now all the songs that are not on my shit list (fiilter list) will end up at the bottom labeled "now" on "date added" then I copy those to the playlist I want to and erase them from the filter.
gxqoz 6y ago
My impression is that Spotify only pays royalties to songs that get streamed for over 30 seconds. Presumably if you skip a song early this is a feature used in its recommendation algorithms. Not as strong as an explicit dislike but I would guess if you keep skipping songs you don't like they'll get penalized.
sam1r 6y ago
Tidal has this! Plus a lot better audio quality, at 1440kbps. It is $10 more though. It allows you to block either 1. the artist or 2. the song track.
- cageface 6y ago
  There are a lot of things I like about tidal but I had constant network issues even with lossy playback. Tracks were skipping and pausing and taking forever to start on the same network that works flawlessly with other services.
  - sam1r 6y ago
    Were you in a city with decent 5g coverage? More recently, I’ve been impressed with the smooth streaming of master quality audio.
    - cageface 6y ago
      This was all on fast wifi, not cellular.
- dawnerd 6y ago
  I'd jump to Tidal in a heart beat if my Model 3 supported it natively.
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yes please. i'll never understand why this isn't default behavior.

oooooh I thought Spotify just had a schizophrenic A/B test started every other quarter, I didn't realize the UI changes are contingent on what kind of song list you were listening to.

dcbadacd 6y ago
They do have schizophrenic A/B testing though. Just recently they started playing the exact same ads but sometimes they have a few syllables messed up. I think I now have first-hand experience in being gaslit, it really makes you doubt your sanity if you heard the "same" ad but "wrong".
- tbodt 6y ago
  That could be advertisers doing schizophrenic A/B testing rather than Spotify.
  - dcbadacd 6y ago
    They're "Spotify premium" ads though.

LoathsLights 6y ago

I wish we could just "ban" a song from ever playing, that way I won't have to make a new playlist from an existing one just because i don't want to listen to these one or two songs I find super annoying. I have playlists that work as filters for me, if I'm mass copying a playlist I first put it into the filter playlist, then I press "skip duplicates" now all the songs that are not on my shit list (fiilter list) will end up at the bottom labeled "now" on "date added" then I copy those to the playlist I want to and erase them from the filter.

gxqoz 6y ago

My impression is that Spotify only pays royalties to songs that get streamed for over 30 seconds. Presumably if you skip a song early this is a feature used in its recommendation algorithms. Not as strong as an explicit dislike but I would guess if you keep skipping songs you don't like they'll get penalized.

sam1r 6y ago

Tidal has this! Plus a lot better audio quality, at 1440kbps. It is $10 more though. It allows you to block either 1. the artist or 2. the song track.

cageface 6y ago
There are a lot of things I like about tidal but I had constant network issues even with lossy playback. Tracks were skipping and pausing and taking forever to start on the same network that works flawlessly with other services.
- sam1r 6y ago
  Were you in a city with decent 5g coverage? More recently, I’ve been impressed with the smooth streaming of master quality audio.
  - cageface 6y ago
    This was all on fast wifi, not cellular.
dawnerd 6y ago
I'd jump to Tidal in a heart beat if my Model 3 supported it natively.

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