Spotify might finally let you tell it what you actually like

Source: Android Authority

TL;DR

• Spotify is working on a new “Notes” feature that could let you directly influence your Home recommendations.
• Instead of only excluding playlists or tracks, you may be able to add written feedback to shape your Spotify Taste Profile.
• The same build also hints at customizable emoji reactions for Spotify Messages chats.

Spotify’s recommendations can feel eerily accurate at times, but certainly not all the time. Right now, if your Home feed or Discover Weekly starts skewing in a direction you don’t like, your only real option is to tweak what you play or manually exclude certain tracks and playlists from your Taste Profile. But it looks like Spotify may soon give you a more direct way to steer the algorithm.

At the moment, your Spotify Taste Profile is built from what you listen to and how you listen. It powers recommendations like Discover Weekly and shapes summaries such as Wrapped and Blend. If something is distorting your recommendations — say, a sleep playlist you run every night — you can exclude that playlist or specific tracks from your Taste Profile. Spotify says those exclusions take effect within 48 hours and reduce the extent to which those streams influence future recommendations and taste summaries.

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The key limitation is that this system is mostly exclusionary. You can remove signals that don’t represent your real taste, but you can’t directly tell Spotify what you’re currently into or what kind of music phase you’re in, other than by slowly training it in the tracks you choose to play.

In Spotify version 9.1.28.385, code strings referencing a new Notes feature tied to your Taste Profile were spotted. The feature appears to let you add written feedback that helps “influence what you see on Home.” Example strings include “Tell us more about you” and a placeholder “I’ve been listening to a lot of…”.

Relevant strings

Send feedback note
Your notes help influence what you see on Home.
Tell us more about you
I've been listening to a lot of…
Edit
Once deleted, this note will have less impact on your taste profile.
Delete this note?
Character limit reached
Delete an existing note in this section to add a new one.
You've reached the limit for notes

Based on the strings, you’ll be able to add, edit, and delete notes linked to your Taste Profile. Spotify also appears to be placing limits on both the number of notes you can create and the number of characters per note. If you hit the cap, you’ll need to delete an existing note before adding another, and deleting one will reduce its impact on your Taste Profile.

We haven’t activated this feature yet, and it looks like the testing phase is still being built. However, if this rolls out, it would add a more proactive layer of personalization. It’s akin to filling out an “Instructions” section for ChatGPT or Gemini to guide responses—why shouldn’t you be able to directly interact with the AI behind Spotify’s algorithm?

Custom emoji reactions in Spotify Messages

A string reading “Pick custom emoji reactions for chat messages” suggests Spotify may allow users to customize emoji reactions in Spotify Messages. The feature would expand beyond the current six standard emojis used for reacting to a friend’s Listening Activity, giving users more flexibility in chats.

Spotify Messages already supports reactions (see details), but they’re limited to a fixed set. Custom emoji reactions would broaden that system.

⚠️ An APK teardown helps predict features that may arrive in the future based on work‑in‑progress code. However, it is possible that such predicted features may not make it to a public release.