Only listen to songs NEVER heard before

[wannaberocker1]

As one who listens to music through Spotify several hours per day, I often feel that I would like to only hear songs that I have *never* listened to before on Spotify.

This would make it possible to discover great new music, and also not having to hear my "favourites" that I've already heard many, many times.

This feature should be added as a possibility to "Song Radio" as well as the automatic list that starts after a playlist ends. This could easily be a button in which you choose "Play only songs that I never listened to before".

I think its strange that there is no such feature today. What do you think?

[danzabarr]

I assume that the discover weekly playlist only contains tracks I haven't played before.

I would like an indicator on all tracks, perhaps next to the like button, which shows that I have listened to the track before.

[wannaberocker1]

Thanks for all the likes!

Update/summary: 

Prior to my post here I had contact with Spotify's customer service in Sweden (Chat and X). The answer I got was that they liked the idea but that I should post here as well so it's seen by the developers. I have no idea how many likes you need here to get attention, but hopefully there will be more likes of the idea 😊

[Laaro]

Great idea, as a millennial I’m pretty sick of hearing music I’ve heard 100 times or music for 18year olds that I don’t quite vibe with. Would be great if I could listen to a full playlist of songs that Spotify would think I like. Or even based off people with similar music taste. Being a mum of two I don’t get to experience much new music, so I need help to find new artists, but that doesn’t mean I want to listen to exclusively adolescent music.

[tunedIN]

Hi @wannberocker1

I'm 100 percent behind you on this idea

Can anyone who agrees, please vote for my idea asking 

"Can we have an Algorithm Strength Setting" 

I believe this would give us the outcome we're seekiing. 

Thanks for your attention

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Can-we-have-an-Algorthm-Strength-Setting/idi-p/6455613

[TheThoughtlessOne]

it would be nice to have two options, one completely random and new to you and the other a bit like smart shuffle where it recommends songs based on your playlists as well because I love smart shuffle but it seems to repeat songs as well even if you tell it not to recommend it again it'll find the song from a different album or such.

[GiveMeMyMusac]

iTunes had this amazing ability to make smart playlists with filters such as: last played date, play count, date added.. 

Spotify is so focused on 'personalised content' that it's actually making the product worse than helping it for the better

[orange1618]

Yes, I agree with you. Sometimes Spotify only bring you music that you¨ve heard many times 

[Atolian]

My enjoyment of Spotify has degraded in the last few years. The push for AI curated content, the amount of covers that get recommended, and whenever I make a radio station that are just a re-shuffle of the songs I already liked is pushing me away from the platform.

[anonymous58]

make that a mode 

[anonymous58]

like you can ask dj, using a 'dj assistant' by saying "hey [your dj name], only play songs i dont know"