- Spotify is reportedly testing a ‘Notes’ feature to get direct feedback on Home recommendations
- Instead of simply excluding playlists or tracks, you may be able to write notes
- Detected by Android Authority, as code found in Spotify version 9.1.28.385
There’s no denying that Spotify’s 2026 set of updates is strong, with the new ‘About Song’ update (which provides backstories to the music you love) a recent highlight. And who could forget the new trio of lyric translation benefits? Ok, Apple Music has been offering something similar since last September, but together they will definitely help you better understand Bad Bunny’s relationship with his aunt.
Do you know what it is? No Has it necessarily been great in 2026? The reported prevalence of AI decreases in its Spotify Discover Weekly recommendations. And the thing is, currently, if your Discover Weekly or Home feed starts to go off on an unpleasant tangent, your only way to mitigate it is to manually exclude each track and/or playlist from your flavor profile, or actively listen to different music to try to get you back on track, and even this feature only launched in October 2025.
But Spotify may soon offer you a batch more control over how to steer the algorithm in your favor. As? Giving you the opportunity to offer written feedback and (hopefully) communicate directly with your AI learning models, yes, similar to giving a written message to ChatGPT or Gemini.
Right now, your Spotify taste profile is based directly on what you listen to and how you listen, even if some of it wasn’t what you actively wanted to listen to (but 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 those Wrapped and Blend digests. If something is skewing these recommendations (say, a bedtime playlist for your little one or lofi hip hop for you, to help you regain some energy once they’re finally asleep), you can exclude them from your taste profile, but so far it’s all a bit superficial.
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The key limitation to all of this is that, right now, you can only tell Spotify “no thanks” for certain tracks; you can’t directly offer notes on what you’d really 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 has detected code strings that mention a new, unreleased Notes feature linked to your taste profile.
As Android Authority reports, “The feature appears to let you add written comments that help ‘influence what you see in Home.’ One string says, “Tell us more about yourself,” while another clarifies, “Your notes help influence what you see in Home.” There’s even an example text, ‘I’ve been listening to a lot of…’ that suggests the kind of free-form entry Spotify might be looking for.”
The report also claims that based on these strings, you should be able to edit, add, and/or delete previous notes linked to your taste profile, although Spotify appears to be putting limits on the number of notes you can create. and the number of characters per note (so no long rants about early 90s folk rock? Got it?).
Clearly, the update is still being tested, but if it hits the market (i.e. all Spotify Premium subscribers), it would surely give us access to a very welcome level of personalized music selection and, unlike many of Spotify’s perks, something no other music streaming service currently has.
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