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Spotify's new snooze button will remove songs from your recommendations for a month

Spotify is rolling out a series of updates to enhance the user experience, particularly for Premium users. One of the notable features that has been announced is the '30-Day Snooze' option.

This new feature allows listeners to temporarily hide a song from their recommendations for a month, addressing user feedback about the platform's tendency to repetitively suggest the same tracks across playlists like Discover Weekly and Smart Shuffle.

Premium users can tap the '30-Day Snooze' option, which can be accessed from the three-dot menu next to a song, and select "don’t suggest this song anywhere for 30 days." This offers a temporary reprieve, rather than completely removing a song from one’s library, and help users discovers music they may like.  Spotify has also improved the 'Hide' feature, when a song is hidden it will remain hidden across all devices associated with the user’s account. Spotify says that it may bring the snooze button to other listeners in the future.

In addition to these improvements, Spotify has also made several other updates to its app. Users now have the option to disable the Smart Shuffle feature. The app has gained some new shortcuts that can be accessed from the Queue button, these contain essential functions like Shuffle, Smart Shuffle, Sleep Timer and Repeat. Recommended songs that will play next will appear at the end of the queue, and users may choose to users to delete unwanted tracks before they play.

Playlists have some new options: Add, Sort and Edit track lists, which can be used to change the playlist title, create a custom cover art, and sequence each song. Spotify users in US, Canada, UK, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and South Africa can use these options to build playlists quickly.

The Spotify app for desktop and the web version have been updated to let users preview albums, artists and playlists. This feature was already available on mobile devices, it is currently rolling out to both Free and Premium users on desktop. The music streaming service is yet to launch the highly-anticipated Spotify HiFi lossless audio streaming option.

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