Spotify on Wednesday introduced the launch of a brand new characteristic that permits customers to take extra management over their suggestions. The service will now enable customers to exclude sure tracks from influencing their style profile. This style profile refers to streamer’s sense of your private musical style and pursuits, and it drives Spotify’s suggestions, together with your Discovery Weekly, Dwelling web page choices, annual Wrapped expertise, Mix playlists with associates, and extra.

The corporate had beforehand allowed customers to exclude sure playlists from their style profile, however this didn’t clear up the issue total of getting music you’re not likely into affect Spotify’s suggestions. Slightly, the playlist characteristic was extra helpful for issues like ensuring your sleep music didn’t result in extra new age or white noise ideas.

With this new characteristic, you may transfer by way of your lately performed objects to inform Spotify that there are some songs you have been enjoying however don’t truly like. (Mother and father in every single place, rejoice!)

To make use of the characteristic, each free and premium customers can faucet the three dots on the top-right nook of your display screen after deciding on the tune they wish to exclude. Customers can then select to exclude the tune from their style profile or embody a beforehand excluded tune.

Spotify’s hyperpersonalization has been a long-time key promoting level for the service. However there are a lot of situations the place the ingestion of all the pieces you hearken to into algorithms doesn’t make sense. Households, significantly these with babies, instantly come to thoughts. Customers additionally typically share their Spotify account whereas within the automobile with family and friends, permitting others to take their flip at enjoying DJ. The rising variety of good audio system within the house has additionally led some members of the family to change into the Spotify account holder related to everybody’s style.

Given the big selection of situations, manually excluding tracks is a pleasant workaround, but it surely’s not one of the best answer. Ideally, customers would be capable to extra simply change between profiles, even perhaps by utilizing voice instructions as you’re typically listening whereas driving. Or the app might provide a strategy to faucet to affiliate a whole listening session with one member of the family or the opposite, as a substitute of forcing you to undergo songs one after the other.

In any occasion, the characteristic will not less than provide some recourse for many who have longed to have their Spotify Wrapped not ruined by the children’ music.