[Windows Desktop/Android] Issues and Questions With Radio

[ql]

Hello,

I've been having a few issues with Spotify's Radio feature.

First of all, the radio seems to have almost no variety when played a few days apart. I play it one day and get 10-15 songs that I like, but then the next time I play it, it's the same group of songs, almost no variation apart from one or two new tracks thrown in. Some of my artist radios have been stagnant for months, even after forcibly skipping tracks so that I can like/dislike a wide variety of tracks.

Second, disliked tracks keep coming back up. At first I thought this was just a problem on Android, but it happens on Desktop as well. I created a radio station for one of my favorite artists in order to listen to just that artist's music. Knowing this wasn't the intended use, I figured that I would have to dislike a lot of other artist's tracks on the radio station to get it to only play the main artist's music. For example, if the artist was Michael Jackson, it would be disliking any non-Michael Jackson song and liking every single Michael Jackson song. I noticed after doing this for five or ten tracks, the disliked tracks began playing again, without the radio "Improving" at all.

I've listened to over 30,000 songs on my Spotify account (My last.fm says 21,000 tracks in 2015 alone, and my Year In Review said upwards of 80,000 minutes) so its not like these algorithms are lacking in data with my account or something.

And Finally, I seem to have lost the ability to un-like and un-dislike tracks on artist radios. When "shaping" the one artist radio mentioned earlier, I accidentally liked another artist's song and wanted to dislike it, and found myself unable to. I opened the Spotify app on my Android phone, figuring it might just be a glitch with the Desktop client, but I couldn't dislike it on the app either.

Issues like these probably go completely unnoticed by people who listen to a few songs every week on their accounts, but for someone like me who is big into listening to music, it can be a huge pain.

Thanks!

- ql