How to Dislike a Song and Find It on Spotify

Spotify can't dislike song now! Not so long ago I could have sworn that the "song radio" had like/dislike buttons - find a song, click the three dots and select "Go to Song Radio" and start playing and on either side of the next/previous track buttons was a thumbs up/thumbs down to "improve" the station. I just noticed that these options are gone (on both desktop and Android) and would like to know where they went. - - Spotify User from Reddit

Many Spotify users have reported that they can not find a dislike button on the Spotify app anymore. Spotify boasts to bring the best customization features to listeners, but apparently they fail on this one. Is there still a way to hide a song on Spotify when you're not into it? Yes.

In the following parts, you'll learn several ways to dislike Spotify songs and get the best listening experience.

Part 1. How to Dislike a song on Spotify

Option 1: Use "Hide song" to block music in a Spotify playlist

Basically, you can choose to hide an unwanted song in a Spotify album or playlist, such as a Spotify radio station, Your Daily Mix, Discover Weekly, etc. When you encounter with a song in these Spotify contents, you can access the "Hide song" button.

To hide unwanted songs in playlists, radio stations:

1. From the Home page of the Spotify mobile app, use search or "Go to radio" to go to the profile of a Spotify playlist or radio station. For a radio station, find the song in an artist radio, song radio or playlist radio.

2. Tap the More button next to the song that you don't want in this playlist.

3. Select the "Hide song" option. Spotify will hide the selected song in list and will skip it for you. The song will also grey out and has a circle with a minus sign inside it.

Please noted that this "Hide song" button works fine with the selection in a specific playlist, not on Spotify entirely. This means the songs you hide in a playlist can still show up in other Spotify playlists. Next time you meet this song in other Spotify playlists, you can hide it again.

Or if you want to unhide a song in a playlist, feel free to click the More button to access the "Hidden" button or the circle with a minus sign inside it to make it playable in the list.

To unhide unwanted songs in playlists, radio stations:

1. From the Home page of the Spotify mobile app, go to the playlist in which a song is hidden. Find the song that's grey out.

2. Tap the More button next to the song that you want to unhide in this playlist.

3. Select the "Hidden" option. Or press the circle with a minus sign inside it to unhide it. Now the song is playable in this playlist.

Option 2: Use "Don't play this artist" to block music from a Spotify artist

If you don't like music from a Spotify artist, Spotify offers the "Don't play this artist" option for you. However, if you just don't like some songs from an artist, this won't make sense because this option will block the artist entirely on Spotify.

To block the music from an artist on Spotify:

1. From the Home page of the Spotify mobile app, go to the artist that you wish to block on Spotify. You can also use the "View artist" option in More button to go to the profile of the artist.

2. On the profile of the artist, tap the More button.

3. Select the "Don't play this artist" option. The artist's songs are blocked on Spotify entirely and Spotify won't play any music from this artist.

To unblock the music from an artist on Spotify:

1. From the Home page of the Spotify mobile app, go to the artist that you block but want to allow to play again on Spotify.

2. On the profile of the artist, tap the circle with a minus sign inside it to unblock this artist. Or tap the More button > Allow to play this artist. Now you can listen to music from this artist again on Spotify.

Part 2. How to Find Disliked Songs on Spotify

If you wish to find a disliked song on Spotify, you need to confirm how you dislike it before, such as to hide it in a playlist or block it from an artist. Go to any related content on Spotify and you can find it with a circle with a minus sign inside it.

Option 1: Turn on/off "Hide unplayable tracks"/"Show unplayable songs" to undo disliked songs

If you still can't find your disliked songs, we suggest you to turn off or on the "Hide unplayable tracks"/"Show unplayable songs" setting of the mobile app. This will undo your disliked songs in a playlist expect for Daily Mix.

To undo disliked songs on Spotify:

1. From the Home page of the Spotify app for mobile, go to Settings.

2. Scroll to Playback.

3. For iOS users, switch "Hide unplayable tracks" off under Playback. For Android users, switch "Show unplayable songs" on.

4. Go back to the playlist and you'll find the hidden songs. Tap the circle with a minus sign inside it, the song is longer hidden.

Option 2. Use Spotify's Download your data tool to get back a song you disliked on Spotify

With Download your data tool, it's possible to get back a song you disliked on Spotify, you just need to request a copy of your personal data, then you can find a list of items you listened to, including your disliked songs on Spotify.

Account data: Playlist, Streaming History (audio, video, and podcasts), Your Library, Search queries, Follow, Payments, User Data, Family Plan, Inferences, Voice Input, Podcast Interactivity, Episodes, Spotify for Artists.

To Download Streaming History Data:

You'll need to use a browser on your device to go to this Spotify Account Overview website to log in to your Spotify account.

1. Go to Spotify Account Overview.

2. Go to the Privacy settings page of the Account Overview.

3. Scroll to Download your data > Account data > Select Account data > Request data. Request a copy of the "Extended streaming history" package of data. Spotify needs 5 days to prepare well.

4. Go to your email box to confirm your request. Spotify will begin to prepare your data. Once the data file is ready, you will receive an email and see your streaming history in the past year, including your disliked songs on Spotify.

Part 3. Alternatives to Dislike Songs from Spotify

You can dislike Spotify songs in some cases listed above. But if you want to hide a specific song forever and never let it get on your recommendations and search results, you can't do this on Spotify.

Since you can't get rid of the songs you hate on Spotify, how about getting all the songs you love and never bother to use Spotify anymore? With ViWizard Spotify Music Converter, you can download all your Spotify songs to your computer without Premium. And then you can play them on any media player, so that you can always play songs you love.

ViWizard Spotify Music Converter is designed to convert Spotify audio files into 6 different formats such as MP3, AAC, M4A, M4B, WAV and FLAC. Almost 100% of the original song quality will be kept after converting process. With 5X faster speed, it only takes few seconds to download each song from Spotify.

 

1Launch ViWizard and Import Songs from Spotify

Open ViWizard software and the Spotify will be launched simultaneously. Then drag and drop tracks from Spotify into the ViWizard interface.

2 Set Up Output Parameters

After adding music tracks from Spotify to ViWizard, you can choose the output audio format. There're six options including MP3, M4A, M4B, AAC, WAV and FLAC. And then you can adjust the audio quality by selecting the output channel, bit rate, and sample rate.

3 Start the Conversion

Once all the setting is finished, click the "Convert" button to start loading Spotify music tracks. After the conversion, all the files will be saved to your specified folder. You could browse all the converted songs by clicking "Converted" and navigate to the output folder.

4Play All the Spotify Songs You Love

After downloading Spotify songs to your computer, you can now play them on a media player with Spotify. You'll never have to worry about running into a song you don't like.