Spotify now lets you listen to a track without it influencing the algorithm

The Spotify recommendation algorithm is problematic, and easily sent askew by random tracks you listen to. The company has just announced that it is rolling out the option for users around the world to exclude individual tracks This may sound like something we’ve heard before, but previous exclusion options have related to playlists. Now you can stop that one song your kid keeps listening to from causing your recommendations to be in a similar vein. As it introduces the option to exclude tracks from being factored in by the recommendation algorithm, Spotify says that the move is a continuation of… [Continue Reading]