How to Exclude Certain Playlists from Your Spotify Flavor Profile

Learn how to prevent certain Spotify playlists, such as your favorite workout music, from affecting the recommendations you see by excluding them from your taste profile.

When you use Spotify, the app creates your taste profile based on the songs, playlists, and artists you listen to the most. The taste profile informs the algorithm about your listening habits, allowing Spotify to recommend new things you might like.

But what if you want certain playlists to not affect your taste profile?

What is a taste profile on Spotify? How it works?

But first, which playlists would be good candidates for exclusion? A great example would be activity-based playlists for workouts, sleep, and parenting. Even though such playlists include carefully selected music suitable for these activities, they probably don’t suit your general listening habits.

“We understand why you don’t want children’s music to appear on your Blend playlists or white noise to dominate Discover Weekly,” Spotify writes on its For the Record blog. Follow our quick guide to learn how to exclude specific playlists from your taste profile and make recommendations more effective for you.

How to Exclude a Playlist from Your Spotify Flavor Profile

To prevent a particular playlist from affecting your Daily Mixes, Discover Weekly, and other recommendations on Spotify, including your top songs, use the three-dot menu to select the option to exclude a playlist from your taste profile.

1. Launch Spotify on your iPhone, iPad, Mac or web.
2. Navigate to the playlist of your choice.
3. Click … (three dots) at the top of the playlist.
4. Select the “Exclude from your taste profile”option from the context menu.

Please try again later if you don’t see this option on the menu. Spotify has just started rolling out this feature to all users, which will take some time.

Clean up your daily mixes and discover weekly

Your sleep playlist probably takes a long time to listen to, but we guess you wish nature sounds or white noise didn’t ruin your Discover Weekly recommendations. The same goes for those high-energy tracks you listen to as motivation during workouts or a Kidz Bop playlist that makes your kid happy.

With the ability to exclude any playlist from your taste profile, Spotify makes it easy to clean up your daily mixes and colorize the recommendations you see.