Unable to remove songs from Discover Weekly

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I'm on the premium plan, using the Windows desktop app version of Spotify.  I'm trying to remove a song from my Discover Weekly playlist, since it's been there before and I didn't think much of it the first time.  The button to do this has been removed.  I can find old posts explaining where it is, and it's not there any more.  How do I remove this song from my playlist? 

[michaldybczak]

If there is no link between dislikes on mobile and PC, I think it's correct to say that this was stored locally on the device, and now they want to have a central system that syncs between devices everything. This will be improvement. Also, if that was locally, the dislikes probably had no influence on the algorithm, so it never took it into advise not to recommend similar songs. If they add for real this time, it will be possible to influence the algorithms. So, I guess, it should be better. However, there is no excuse to breaking it now when the new feature is not ready.

We heard Spotify's comment that they try to fix it "soon" but this kind of vague statement tells me, that they have no idea, and it won't be anytime soon in user's term.

We need dialog and more info from Spotify's side. Currently, this is missing. Sporadic, short and vague comments that don't address any specific concerns. We should have a better and more specific explanations pinned on official sites and all over the space for others to find. Spotify's team, are you hearing this? I think not... They are not behaving as if it was anything important, but for us users, this is a disaster!

[blueyoshi68]

Is this supposed to be a feature??? Like brother this was the only reason I still used Spotify over youtube, are you kidding me? Why the **bleep** is it just not there anymore.

[nm30]

Why is this "hide" feature missing in Desktop app? Put it back please.

[RexiLabs]

If this is on purpose, then the PMs responsible need to reverse it....because this completely invalidates how I (and seemingly everyone else here) uses the Discover Weekly.  Every week for years I open the Discover Weekly and listen to all the songs and remove the ones I don't like and leave the ones I do and then decide if I want to add any time my playlists.   Now this whole pattern is utterly broken and discourages one me from engaging with Spotify, which should be the opposite of what Spotify PMs should want..  I've been using Spotify since 2010.

[ceae]

The real issue is that they've marked this as solved to end-users when it is not solved - this is an unacceptable workflow and if it was at my workplace whoever decided to flag it as solved would be on a PIP.

[Its_Lonely]

Can't believe this is still broken, discover weekly is completely useless without it. I swear I'm more and more disappointed by this app and its customer service by the day. I'm going to have to switch to using another service soon at this rate.

[janrik]

Yeah, I'm quite annoyed by this personally. I now have to go out of my way to use my phone to dislike songs which doesn't seem like the best way to promote UX? This is a terrible UX decision and I'm wondering what the team at Spotify is doing.

[adrian_vg]

@Sindrom

You're saying only some of the subscribers ran into this issue?

According to Wrapped, I'm in the top one percent of listeners for 2024. I assume it means I've used Spotify a lot last year.

How does it compare to others that have reported here? You also in or near the top?

Trying to see if there is a correlation, if any, between usage and losing the hidle button. I don't want to be in the sucker group. Just want my hide button back.

[dharlequin]

I’m in the top 4%

[adrian_vg]

@dharlequin

Not conclusive yet then.
OTOH, we may never know... 🙂

[Sindrom]

@michaldybczak
I can't say how it was before because I can't remember and I am unsure. What I can say is that NOW the sync between what you do on mobile regarding hiding songs in Discover Weekly does not reflect in to the desktop app. And I agree that we need better communication from the Spotify team on this issue. 

@RexiLabs

I think most of us who are here complaining about this had the same flow of interacting with the Discover Weekly playlist. My Liked Songs playlist is probably more than 95% populated with songs discovered in this way.

@ceae
You are correct. This thread is marked as fixed when it is definitely not fixed. I wonder is anyone is still tracking the discussion.

@adrian_vg
There is no way for me to say for certain anything in regards to this issue that does not involve my own devices. On my desktop devices the feature is missing. On the mobile devices the feature is there. According to wrapped I am in top 5%.

[Sindrom]

We are all crying about this over HERE 
Join us.

[Loneliest_Cabin · Accepted solution]

Hi everyone, wanted to jump in here as there seems to be confusion over what a "Solution" is. It is a way for us to present the current answer to the discussion. I understand it isn't "Solved" in terms of resolving the issue, but we use this function of the platform so that the answer is visible to all who find it - and hopefully reduces the need for others to have to take more effort to register and post.

The current Solution explains that we have removed this "hide" feature while we look to improve the underlying solution across Mobile and Desktop.

We are absolutely reading and passing your comments on to internal teams, as we always do. There are no further updates at this time, but we will reply in here when this is fixed and available again for you. Thanks for your understanding and patience - we are Spotify users too and also love this feature! Of course your voices always help keep things in focus for our internal teams, so feel free to tell us how important this feature is for you. 

[axhoff]

Same here.
Even more frustrating that this is apparently by design (only on Desktop??). If i don't want a song, i don't want a song.

Please fix this or provide an alternative of some sort.

[hercule18]

Same for me on Ubuntu. Seams also to work on Mobile (Android) But Desktop app does not care preference and do not propose the dislike button.

[Modamo]

Thank you, Loneliest_Cabin from Spotify, for your reply. Happy to see Spotify is indeed reading our comments and listening to us, and your post explains nicely what's happening. I can only speak for myself of course, but it makes sense and knowing this, I'll just patiently wait and see what happens before deciding to move away from Spotify towards a different streaming service.
Cheers!

[Sindrom]

My Premium Duo gets renewed tomorrow so I will still be here for one more month just because of my familiarity with the Spotify app and the reluctance of making the change to another music app. I've added a reminder for 2 days before the February bill is due, just so I can be sure I will keep my promise of leaving Spotify Premium if this does not get fixed until then. By that time, more than 3 months will have passed since this issue was reported and was not fixed. I really hope I won't be forced to do this change.

[zoryn]

Can't believe such a basic feature is broken yet again. Have had Spotify premium for years, and if this isn't fixed/returned I will absolutely look elsewhere.

[laelito]

Ridiculous. The whole point of Discover Weekly is for Spotify to help us "discover" new music we like, not force us to listen to music we DON'T like! Without the dislike button, 50% of that discovery equation is missing. More importantly, there is no way that I'm gonna repeatedly listen to the Discover Weekly playlist if it has even one single song that I don't like, but cannot remove. 

Curiously, the Release Radar playlist still has the minus/dislike button. Which gives me some hope that this is just a bug to be fixed and not another sleazy tactic to keep us listening to music that's cheaper for Spotify (I'm looking at you "Smart" Shuffle). But it seems just as likely that this is an intentional decision to make the app and music discovery experience worse for users while making the shareholders and executives happier by forcing more profitable tracks into our streaming diet.

[JoshuaStrobl]

What was the technical reason for its removal in the first place? I won't be placated by a vague "oh we need to improve the underlying solution". The functionality _worked_ on the desktop. If there was expected improvements to be made to it, a solution existing across all verticals should have been considered blocking for a rollout of the change. How did the decision come about and how was it considered acceptable to disrupt the user experience to such a degree?