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Spotify Will Soon Let You Mute, Block Artists (theverge.com) 44

Posted by BeauHD from the features-that-exist-because-of-Nickelback dept.
Spotify, one of the largest music streaming platforms available, is readying a "don't play this artist" feature in its apps that will let you mute artists you don't want to hear from. "The feature simply lets you block an entire artist from playing, so that songs from the artist will never play from a library, playlist, chart list, or even radio stations on Spotify," reports The Verge. From the report: The block feature works on songs by an individual artist, but it doesn't currently apply to tracks that an artist is featured on. Thurrott first spotted the feature, and notes that Spotify originally decided not to offer blocking "after serious consideration" back in 2017. Spotify has now reversed that decision.
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  • This is not the solution to the problem. (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    Searching for Michael Jackson in Spotify and being redirected to Drake for marketing reasons alone, is the problem with Spotify.

    Let users search for who they want to listen to and stop forcing them to listen to unrelated artists,.

    • That's shitty AI for you as well as marketing.
      Search engines everywhere are pulling this "you searched for ABC but we will show you results for DEF because we think that's what you really want" nowadays, thus generally searches have become less useful and more annoying because of it.

      Even Google does this now. I'll specifically search for ABC, but it shows results for BCD with a small link saying something like "You really didn't want to search for ABC, did you?"

  • Defaults? (Score:5, Funny)

    by frank_adrian314159 ( 469671 ) on Monday January 21, 2019 @08:15PM (#57999426) Homepage

    Does it come with a default Nickleback setting?

  • If they'd change from Individual artists to a category, say Hip-Hop or Rap, or Religious, I'd pay full price. Being able to mute individual songs would be nice, too just because I like a musician doesn't mean I like ALL they do.

    • Would definitely like block genre. I fucking hate Country Music and some other varieties. That said on things like my daily list, I can already select "block artist" as one of my options when I block a song. Have been able to for months. Haven't been using it long. Switched to it when it was announced XM was buying Pandora.

    • Spotify doesn't let you make stations based on genres or tags? I remember last.fm and Pandora having features to that end, 10+ years ago. They also both had a "ban track" button. Seems like basic stuff, especially when you're asking for payment. If all it lets me do is pick individual songs to play and make them into playlists - I can already do that very well without paying anyone a monthly subscription.
      • You can make a station based on a song in Spotify. I never do it, but the the option is there. It also makes a station based on your recent listening that you can optionally use.
    • I haven't subscribed in a while, but Slacker Radio had ban artist, ban song, create a station from a song, curated genre stations... I'm surprised that the more popular Spotify lacks these features.
  • Pandora could really use this feature as well.
  • There is a lot of music out there, unfortunately, most of it is just plain bad. I honestly don't want to listen to a bunch of crap to maybe hear one decent song. With few exceptions ( a few you tube music videos) I mostly listen to stuff from http://www.opengameart.org/ [opengameart.org] because not only is it all freely licensed, it sounds better. But even that can't compare to the music I composed for my game, Wograld You can get all the music right with the game client. I actually listen to the Wograld music when I work

    • There is a lot of music out there, unfortunately, most of it is just plain bad. I honestly don't want to listen to a bunch of crap to maybe hear one decent song.

      This is Sturgeon's law, indeed most things in given field of endeavour aren't good. Nonetheless, precisely because there is so much music, in absolute terms a vast quantity of really good music exists right now. Streaming platforms massively reduce the personal cost of exploring new genres or new acts: you don't worry about buying the wrong album, etc. Personally, I've found a massive change in my listening habits since I switched to streaming: I've discovered several genres new to me, developed new interes

  • Spotify has developers? (Score:3)

    by _Shorty-dammit ( 555739 ) on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @03:58AM (#58000570)

    November of 2012 we have been trying to get these fools to allow us to change an accidental (or otherwise) thumbs up or thumbs down to the opposite, or simply remove either choice, and they still haven't implemented such a basic feature. It's ridiculous. And it's things like this that will continue to ensure they never get any money from me.

    https://community.spotify.com/... [spotify.com]

    • Spotify is so flaky on my phone, why ever would I pay for a subscription? They also can't (won't?) distinguish between different artists with the same name. Search for "Indiana" or "Avery" for examples.

  • Or any other streaming music service, for that matter...

    You can't link tracks that were meant to be played together, so multi-track works sound absolutely horrible when part of a playlist on shuffle mode, or played as part of a radio station.

    Take Pink Floyd, for instance... If you wanted Another Brick in the Wall to be a part of your playlist, someone decided to slice that into three separate tracks on the album. There's a lot of good music out there that's affected by this problem.

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