I have a playlist with almost 4,500 songs in it. Yet the same songs are played over and over and over again. What do I do?? I like these songs, I just have tons of other songs I'd like to hear once in awhile too.
I forgot to clarify, repeat is off, the playlist is on shuffle. Lets say I listen to a playlist today for a few songs, then close out the app. I start the app back up tomorrow, to find that of the first 10 songs 7 are ones I listened to yesterday.
I've had the same problem since iOS 9.0.2 on my 6s. The best solution I've come up with is to go to the Up Next list then clearing all the songs. If you notice in the list it is only the one song over and over again. Then after clearing I hit Add and then add whatever playlist or artist that I want. The biggest issue that I've noticed with this approach is that the list will not repeat or shuffle. It isn't perfect but it is better than the current behavior.
But I've also seen that when shuffling a playlist it will occasionally play a song that has already been played, which can be verified in Up Next's History. This happens without exiting the playlist. Just stay in a playlist and let it shuffle for some time to build up history, then pause and start using the iPhone for other purposes (i.e. check Mail, browse the web, etc.) When you resume playback of the same playlist, you may find that it will replay a song that you heard already, but like 5-20 songs ago. It is as if the iPhone's Up Next list of songs got re-shuffled and included songs you've already heard (memory management issue?) I typically listen to Smart Playlists in shuffle mode, where the playlist has date-based criteria to remove the songs on the next sync, not sure if that is a factor or not.
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For some songs of mine, I listened to them so much during the production and mixing stage that it doesn't even matter anymore how long I stay away from them - how I will perceive the song will always be influenced by knowing the song inside out.
I have previously looked this up and saw that it was recommended to mark songs you've already heard as "I don't like this song" which I have been doing for a few months now, but this week fully 19 of the 30 songs on Discover Weekly I've heard before.
I don't think it's practical to dislike all those songs, firstly because I don't really dislike them all, and secondly because it doesn't appear to have any effect on getting songs I've already heard before recommended to me again, other than maybe not repeating those specific ones. Surely that's just a never ending cycle though? I listen to a wide variety of music, there will always be new songs for them to repeat! How can we ensure that Discover Weekly is actually allowing you do "discover" songs rather than just repeating old recommendations?
I want to echo the concerns here and in many other posts regarding the inability to dislike or hide songs. I've largely been enjoying Spotify for about a year. However, I am finding that Spotify's algorithms present me with a very, very narrow selection of material, much of which I simply don't enjoy. These algorithms seem to inform autoplay, daily mixes, and other recommended playlists, as the same songs pop up across all of these services. I have a pretty large and diverse group of "liked" songs, and I have tried to add and remove liked songs to improve upon Spotify's reliance on my likes for its algorithms. However, the service has actually gotten relatively boring, and it's frustrating to be presented with the same songs that I don't enjoy across Spotify's services. So I spend way too much time listening to material I dislike or clicking through songs. I would encourage Spotify to either improve upon their "like" algorithms or make it a lot easier to dislike a song. I don't really understand why tagging a song as something you don't enjoy would not improve Spotify's services.
The community resources for understanding Spotify's dislike features are also a mess, reflecting variation in these features over time and across different playlists. There's also many posts marked as "solved," implying there's a solution whereas the "solutions" are really only guidance to provide feedback as a suggested features. Implying there are solutions to the problem many users present is really frustrating. It's incredibly time consuming and confusing. I have spent an hour sorting through various posts and have learned nothing.
The best way to influence the algorithm would be to listen to listen to songs and artists via the Search option and not only through the other recommendation playlists, which will narrow down your recommendations pool and you'll start seeing songs that you've already heard.
If you're really unhappy whit the recommendations you get you can follow the instructions in this Guide and transfer your music collection over to a new account. With a new account the algorithm is calculated anew in the first few weeks of listening, so you might get better results based on the music you're currently in to.
Thanks for your reply. I find it a bit baffling that the best way to improve your discoveries is to...discover your own music? I only listen to Spotify which means that I would have to do some research, maybe try to find similar songs on YouTube or something, which of course can be done but is time consuming and it defeats the point of having a service that is supposed to do that for you.
I imagine preventing tracks from repeating is just a question of programming? I would rather Spotify recommend more different songs that I might not like, and with the staggering amount of tracks available surely that should still be possible without any repeats.
Suggesting work-arounds like disliking every repeated song, manually discovering your own music or creating an entire new account places the responsibility of the 'fix' on the user, and don't actually address the problem.
I've noticed this more recently as well. Most if, not all songs, in discover weekly are songs I have heard before. In the previous 5 years of using this service they would be almost all new songs. Did something recently change?
I've been having this same issue recently, this week is the third week in a row that I've had songs that I've had previously on discover weekly again on my discover weekly playlist. At least 2/3 of the songs on my discover weekly playlist are songs that I had months or even over a year ago. It's kind of pointless to listen to the playlist when I've already heard all the songs. It's pretty obvious that there is some sort of bug going on here as it's no coincidence that this has happened for the third week in a row
I've been having the same issues since a month ago. Clearly, something has changed. I used to be super happy about starting the week with a fresh pot of songs to choose from, but now it's boring since I have listened to most of them already. Would be great if you could fix what you broke
I have the same problem for about a year now. Discover Weekly was one of the best aspects of Spotify for me and now it sadly became obselete. Not only it recommends songs i already listened to but somehow its musical range seems to have gotten narrower too.
This is the firs week for me to have this issue. I've always used the dislike option for songs a dont find entertaining. I search for new songs regularly when I hear them on radio/youtube (or soundcloud discovery). Once it got spot on songs and I even saved the whole list. But now It had almost half the songs I've already disliked for the algorithm. Something has clearly changed for the worse.
NOTE: Making a new account for only this purpose is not a valid workaround!
This should be simple! Just create a new playlist and call it "Discover New Songs Weekly" and then actually look at our play history and send us new songs. Discover Weekly isn't doing it. I'm hearing songs I've memorized. It's becoming a complete drag in finding new music. I use to rave about how amazing Spotify is. But lately, I've been telling people it use to be good at finding new music I really enjoy but now I'm at a loss because Spotify isn't showing me new music in what should have been my NEW MUSIC FEED A.K.A Discover WEEKLY, A.K.A. My favorite go-to playlist. But you ruined it just like you ruined your end-of-year playlists by removing Akira the Don from them due to some woke staff you have on board. I'm very disappointed about the staff answers on this feed and would really like Spotify to think about improving this ASAP! I've been debating switching to Apple music all together.
To add to the discussion, I have *three* songs in my current discover playlist that are marked as disliked, because I disliked them previously before this week's discover playlist was even made. I don't understand why the algorithm would stitch a playlist together that includes previously disliked songs.
Having songs I've already heard in the discover playlist has been an ongoing frustrating issue, especially when it has included songs that I had previously added to my library but removed due to losing interest in them. However, this is the first time I have seen it including songs I explicitly disliked. I don't understand why the discover feature would include this. How is this not a bug?
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