- Spotify would test a “Notes” functionality for direct feedback on Home recommendations
- Instead of just excluding playlists or tracks, you may be able to write notes
- Spotted by Android Authority, as code found in Spotify version 9.1.28.385
There’s no denying that Spotify’s 2026 suite of updates is strong, with the new “About Song” upgrade (providing stories about the music you love) a recent highlight. And who could forget the new trio of lyrics translation benefits? OK, Apple Music has been offering something similar since last September, but together they’ll definitely help you better understand Bad Bunny’s relationship with his aunt.
You know what it is not it must have been great in 2026? The reported prevalence of AI slop in your Spotify Discover Weekly recommendations. And the thing is, right now, if your Discover Weekly or Home feed starts to go off on an unpleasant tangent, your only way to mitigate is to manually exclude every track and/or playlists from your taste profile, or actively listen to different music to try to get it back on track — and even that feature wasn’t released until October 2025.
But Spotify could soon offer you a plot more control over how to bend the algorithm in your favor. How? By giving you the ability to offer written feedback and (hopefully) communicate directly with its AI learning models – yes, like sending a written prompt to ChatGPT or Gemini.
Right now, your Spotify Taste profile is directly based on what and how you listen, even if some of it wasn’t what you actively wanted to hear (but you couldn’t be bothered to pull out your phone and manually skip the track).
This is then taken and used to create your Discover Weekly playlist and create these Wrapped and Blend summaries. If something skews these recommendations — say, a bedtime playlist for your toddler or some lofi hip hop for you, to help you catch a few z’s once they finally drift — you can exclude them from your taste profile, but so far it’s all a bit superficial.
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The main limitation of all this is that right now you can only tell Spotify “no thanks” regarding certain tracks; you can’t directly offer notes on what you actually prefer – or why you think this song is AI-generated (and as a musician you don’t like that), for example.
In Spotify version 9.1.28.385, Android Authority spotted strings of code that mention a new, unreleased Notes feature tied to your taste profile.
As Android Authority reports, “the feature appears to allow you to add written comments that help ‘influence what you see on Home.’ One channel says, “Tell us more about yourself,” while another says, “Your ratings help influence what you see on the home page.” There’s even an example of placeholder text, “I’ve been listening to a lot of…” that suggests the type of free-form input Spotify might be aiming for.
The report also claims that, based on these strings, you should be able to edit, add and/or delete previous notes related to your taste profile – although Spotify appears to impose limits on the number of notes you can create. And the number of characters per note (so no long speeches on folk rock from the early 2000s? Got it).
Obviously, the upgrade is still being tested, but if it hits the market (i.e. for all Spotify Premium subscribers), it would surely give us access to a very welcome level of personalized music curation, and unlike many of Spotify’s benefits, that no other music streaming service currently offers.
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