Spotify Radio straying off-topic

[Brainfrz]

Hi All,

I'm hoping this question is on the right board here, as "playlists" was the closest thing to spotify radio i could find.

When i'm playing Spotify Radio, the songs slowly shift into general music. for example i start of with Within Temptation. For the first 20ish songs, its great with Nightwish or After Forever, Slowly it shifts to Takida, then 3 Doors Down, Nickelback, Imagine Dragons, OneRepublic, Ed Sheeran. (goes a bit slower than that, but that's what actually happens)

I do like a lot of those "off-topic" songs though, so i'm not immediately inclined to thumb them down. But should I?

Are thumbs up/down saved on a per-radiostation basis? And should i thumb down offtopic songs?

[Peter__]

Thumbs are station specific from my previous experience using it. If you listen for longer, does it ever go back to the original stuff?

[Brainfrz]

Thank you for your reply, I never checked if it ever got back to the original theme after a longer period of time, but i restarted the program, and tried different devices to find the same offtopic music playing.

I'll give it a try to not thumbs up music i find offtopic, i'll see how that works out 🙂

[Brainfrz]

Just a quick update, being more selective in my thumbs ups does seem to do the trick, i don't think thumbing down a track does much, except for banning the specific track from that playlist.

I still think the original track should be made more prominent in the selection of radio tracks, but i understand that would require each track to have a "coordinate" and requires some heavy math and baseline data.

Maybe a button "this track is offtopic" and "this track is ontopic" could be made to improve the radio, and simultaniously "feed" the baseline data for future improvements 🙂