If you’re a Spotify user, it more than likely is that you have consulted their recommendations on more than one occasion. The system is not always right, especially if you are very eclectic in terms of musical taste, but at least in my case, I admit that thanks to this feature I discovered some bands and artists that I did not know at the time, but that today are part of the music that I I usually listen regularly. I’m talking about personalized recommendations, of course, not those based on the most listened to songs on the platform, new releases or anything like that.

I still remember when, for example, Spotify created the “Discovery Weekly” charts many years ago. For several months, they were the main source of music that accompanied me in my daily life. I’ll also admit that I didn’t have high expectations at first, but the truth is that the experience was more than satisfying. Then Apple Music came into my life and I started switching between the two services, using other sources to choose music and so on, but since I tend to have more confidence in this type of selection algorithm.

Of course, Spotify’s selection of personalized recommendations is based on your playback history. If you listen to such and such an artist, it is highly likely that you will like the third and so on. to infinity. But of course it happens sometimes you listen to certain types of music for specific circumstancesbut that doesn’t mean it’s the type of music you want to find on your recommendation list.

For example, there are quite a few people who like listen to classical music while working, but at the end of the working day they give rein to their musical tastes, which have little or nothing to do with classical music. Or we can use relaxing music to fall asleep or every day, for two or three hours, the little ones in the household intensively use their Spotify subscription and listen to CantaJuego’s big hits. In all of these cases, it’s more than likely that you don’t want to find this type of content in personalized recommendations.

The company repeated this circumstance and responded to the demand of its users, which comes from afar. So, and as we can read in For the record, his official blog, Spotify finally lets you exclude playlists from content considered for recommendations. This way we can tell the platform that no, we don’t want to meet again with “I am a mug, a teapot, a spoon and a ladle» between a music selection more tailored to your preferences.

The post doesn’t specify a specific date for when this tweak will be available, though it seems like it’s rolling out soon. And in terms of its scope, it will be global, that is, it can be executed in apps for Android and iOS, on the desktop client and in the web version. To exclude a playlist from your music preference profile, just access it, click on “…” and click the enabled option to exclude it.