How To Dislike A Song On Spotify — Everything You Need To Know

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Everyone knows how to like songs on Spotify, but what about disliking them? For many apps these days, liking/disliking is a fairly common feature. It’s long been the primary way people rate YouTube videos. Reddit posts are centered around upvoting and downvoting posts. Even Twitter has shown interest in implementing a dislike feature.

While those social-focused apps use likes and dislikes for people to vote on content they think is good or bad, liking songs on Spotify is a bit different. If someone is listening to a song and particularly enjoys it, they can tap the heart icon next to that song to ‘like’ it. All liked songs show up in that person’s library in the Liked Songs playlists, it helps train Spotify to play songs similar to that, and it generally makes the whole experience feel more personalized. One of Spotify’s greatest strengths is creating playlists/stations based on someone’s listening preferences, and by liking songs, users can help train that algorithm to better understand them.

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Liking songs on Spotify is pretty straightforward, but what about disliking them? Although a traditional dislike feature doesn't exist, Spotify does allow users to 'hide' songs and artists — essentially the equivalent of disliking something. Spotify doesn't call it a dislike button, but the utility is the same. If you come across a song you don't like, tapping the hide button lets Spotify know to skip that track and play fewer songs like it. While that sounds easy on paper, finding the hide/dislike button varies depending on how you listen to Spotify.

For folks using the free version of Spotify, disliking a Spotify song is as follows. Open the Spotify app, start playing a