How to ignore a playlist from contributing to your music preferences?

[Brian-L]

I have a particular playlist that I listen to when I'm at the gym and working out, but I absolutely hate listening to this music at other times (since it's repetitive and pumpy). 

However, I've been going to the gym way more frequently lately, and now this kind of music is weaving its way through ALL recommendations that Spotify is giving me (Daily Mix, Discover Weekly, etc.), and its making Spotify absolutely unusable for me.

How do I tell Spotify to completely ignore any music from a playlist from playing a role in contributing to my musical preferences? This would also be really helpful for when I'm playing music for my kids (e.g. Raffi).

Is there some way to switch between 'moods' that would isolate musical preferences to certain moods or activities? And then I could switch into that mood and only have recommendations that are associated with likes/dislikes for that mood?

[Kiril · Accepted solution]

Hey there @Brian-L,

Thanks for stopping by the Community!

We understand your experience and the feedback you have about having options to control what's picked up by the algorithms of the app. Right now such 'exclusion' effect can be achieved by our feature called Private listening.  You an use this mode to make sure that the excessive repetition of one type of tracks during your particular listening session will not ultimately affect the overall balance of your taste profile and personalized suggestions.

Also, other Community users have gathered and already proposed similar feature requests. Feel free to support their ideas by leaving your vote and also add your valuable feedback there:

• [Discover] Exclude selected Playlists from Taste Profile and Discover Suggestions
• [Your Library] different listening profiles/tags

Please note that even if an idea is currently set to “Closed” or "Not Right Now" you can still add your vote there and we revisit those ideas on regular intervals. It might be that their time would be right in the future. You'll also find all the relevant info about our Idea Exchange and how the Community feedback gets implemented here if you'd like to know more about the topic.

Hope you find this useful. Keep us posted if you have any questions.