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by yeukhon 3360 days ago
I want Spotify to fix Discover Weekly. At some point Spotify learned I like Chinese and Korean songs, they started to add Thai songs. I don't listen to Thai and I don't understand Thai. I don't know how to make Spotify unlearn and remove Thai from Discover Weekly now. Ever since, I stopped using the Discover Weekly feature because I get 3-4 songs in languages I don't understand and there isn't an easy way to make Spotify realize I dislike a particular kind of song.

If there isn't a "I do not like this" feature for a machine learning feature, that UX isn't good. Other users have raise this concerns too (google it).

2 comments

This is from a friend with a similar problem who talked to a guy working with the feature, so YMMV:

Supposedly, the feature works at least in part by analyzing your playlists and giving recommendations based on what the people with similar songs in their playlists have there as well. He claimed to be receiving less Finnish rap m after removing his playlists with northern Swedish rap, so you could try that approach if you still have any Chinese/Korean playlists.

I just remove the few offending songs from my discover weekly, which I don't find too much of a hassle, but it doesn't seem to learn from that.

I've had no problem giving songs a thumbs down in the discover weekly playlists.