I wish we could just "ban" a song from ever playing, that way I won't have to make a new playlist from an existing one just because i don't want to listen to these one or two songs I find super annoying.

I have playlists that work as filters for me, if I'm mass copying a playlist I first put it into the filter playlist, then I press "skip duplicates" now all the songs that are not on my shit list (fiilter list) will end up at the bottom labeled "now" on "date added" then I copy those to the playlist I want to and erase them from the filter.

oooooh I thought Spotify just had a schizophrenic A/B test started every other quarter, I didn't realize the UI changes are contingent on what kind of song list you were listening to.

yes please. i'll never understand why this isn't default behavior.

My impression is that Spotify only pays royalties to songs that get streamed for over 30 seconds. Presumably if you skip a song early this is a feature used in its recommendation algorithms. Not as strong as an explicit dislike but I would guess if you keep skipping songs you don't like they'll get penalized.

Tidal has this! Plus a lot better audio quality, at 1440kbps. It is $10 more though.

It allows you to block either 1. the artist or 2. the song track.