Learn how to exclude specific Spotify playlists, such as your favorite workout tracks, from your taste profile to prevent them from affecting your personalized recommendations.
As you use Spotify, the app builds your taste profile based on the songs, playlists, and artists you listen to most. This profile informs the algorithm about your listening habits, enabling Spotify to recommend new content you might enjoy.
But what if you want to stop specific playlists from influencing your taste profile?
What is a taste profile on Spotify, and how does it work?
But first, what kinds of playlists would be good candidates for exclusion? A great example would be activity-based playlists for working out, sleeping, and parenting. Even though such playlists include carefully curated music to fit those activities, they probably don’t match your general listening habits.
“We understand why you might not want kids’ music popping up in your Blend playlists or white noise dominating your Discover Weekly,” Spotify writes on its For the Record blog. Follow our quick tutorial to learn how to exclude specific playlists from your taste profile and improve your recommendations.
Exclude a playlist from your Spotify taste profile
To stop a playlist from influencing your Daily Mixes, Discover Weekly, and other Spotify recommendations, including your top songs, use the three-dotted menu and select the option to exclude the playlist from your taste profile.
- Launch Spotify on your iPhone, iPad, Mac, or the web.
- Navigate to the playlist of your choice.
- Tap the three dots icon (…) near the top of the playlist.
- Choose the Exclude from your Taste Profile option from the contextual menu.
Clean up your Daily Mixes and Discover Weekly
Your sleep playlist might get plenty of playtime, but you probably don’t want nature sounds or white noise affecting your Discover Weekly recommendations. The same applies to upbeat tracks for workouts or a Kidz Bop playlist for your child.
Spotify’s option to exclude playlists from your taste profile makes it easy to refine your Daily Mixes and improve the recommendations you receive.
Related Spotify tutorials you might find useful: