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by unstatedAnswers 1705 days ago
Sure, it would be useful… if users used it.

My guess is they don’t. Did you use the like/dislike buttons they tested on Spotify radio? I didn’t, too much effort.

They probably get more signal from the skip button

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I've used it extensively on Pandora for probably a decade now and it makes a station go from great to spectacular
It blows my mind that some of my Pandora stations are more than a decade old and still listened to regularly.
I would use it, and dont understand why its only avaiable in Spotify Radio and not everywhere. I think my dislike of a song in an album can still be utilized to refine my suggestions.

Whats worse, there was a song that was constantly playing after my playlist ended. No matter how many times I marked the song as Dislike, it was always in first of 5 songs that play when playlist finished. Made sure the song appeared nowhere in my playlists (had to manually search in each), and neither did the artist. After contacting support and jumping trough few "restart app" styled suggestion, I was suggested to mark the artist as "never play this artist". This surprised me, as I never seen that option before. And then I understood why: its only in mobile version. You cant solve it on PC.

Bleh