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Yes that's very frustrating. I'm scared to even listen to new music on it because I'd try to use it for discovery but it would mistake what I listen to for what
by 0134340 5y ago
Yes that's very frustrating. I'm scared to even listen to new music on it because I'd try to use it for discovery but it would mistake what I listen to for what I like. Besides that it hardly recommends me any new music anyway. I now just use youtube for discovery.
- marginalia_nu 5y agoThey should add an incognito mode or something. You could even do this maliciously. Send someone a Spotify link to a Steely Dan song and a Skrillex song, and now yacht rock and dubstep will follow them around until they delete their account (I'm assuming the intersection between those fan-bases is vanishingly small).
- Oddskar 5y agoThat already exists. Profile > Private Session
- marginalia_nu 5y agoDoesn't that just hide your activity from other people?
- Oddskar 5y agoFrom their support docs: Note: Anything you listen to in a Private Session may not influence your music recommendations, e.g. Discover Weekly.
- vanilla_nut 5y agoHigh school me would have been very offended to be labeled “vanishingly small.” But you’re not wrong. By the way, I believe Spotify does have a private mode, which at least blocks your plays from showing up in the social pane and on your profile. But I’m not sure if it cuts them out of your recommendations. Please, dear God, Spotify: just because I listened to the Hamilton soundtrack once does not mean that I want to hear it every week in Discover Weekly and multiple times per Duo playlist, because Lin-Manuel Miranda is apparently a genre of himself.