Spotify finally lets you remove individual songs from your algorithm – and now I can stop myself getting side-tracked by my guilty pleasure listens

A screenshot of how to exclude an individual song from your Spotify taste profile .

• Spotify has brought out a new feature that allows you to exclude individual songs from your taste profile
• Before now, you could exclude playlists, but this is the first time Spotify is giving you the option to exclude tracks
• The aim of this feature is to give you more control over what songs Spotify recommends you, and also helps to tailor a more accurate Spotify Wrapped recap

Spotify prides itself on its personalization features, and it’s expanding on this with a new setting that lets you exclude individual songs from your taste profile to give you more control over what music appears in your recommendations.