Spotify Notes may finally provide direct influence of your Home recommendations

Spotify Notes would allow you to influence the music you see on the app’s Home screen.

Our sister site, Android Authority, has unearthed strings indicating Spotify is working on a new algorithmic playlist feature. Aptly named “Notes”, it will reportedly allow listeners to provide written feedback to inform their Spotify Taste profiles. This would provide vastly superior control compared to the current system. For example, you can currently only exclude tracks or playlists from your Taste profile.

Spotify Taste Profile’s feed your Discovery Weekly and shape summaries, such as Wrapped and Blend. Once tracks or playlists begin distorting your recommendations, your only real option is to exclude them from your Taste Profile. Spotify claims it then takes approximately 48 hours for these exclusions to take effect. The problem for most is that you can’t tell Spotify what music you actively want to hear.

You can currently react to your friends’ listening activity with emojis.

However, Android Authority has spotted a string in Spotify version 9.1.28.385 that references a new Notes feature tied to your Taste Profile. This suggests that you’ll be able to provide written feedback to help “influence what you see on Home.” Another string reads “Tell us more about you,” while another clarifies that “Your notes help influence what you see on Home.” Android Authority even noticed an example placeholder text that states, “I’ve been listening to a lot of…”, suggesting Spotify may promote a more free-form input system.

If this comes to fruition, listeners can expect to add, edit, and delete notes linked to their Taste Profile. However, Spotify may limit the number of notes you can create and the number of characters per note. Once you hit the cap, you must delete an existing note before adding another, and deleting one reduces its impact on your Taste Profile. Android Authority notes that the testing phase is still being built.

In addition to Spotify Notes, the company appears to be developing a small social upgrade in the same build. Android Authority noticed a string reading “Pick custom emoji reactions for chat messages”, suggesting Spotify may allow users to customize emoji reactions in Spotify Messages. For clarity, Messages already supports reactions, but they’re limited to six standard emojis when responding to friends’ listening activity. These newly discovered emoji reactions would expand that system to in-app chat messages. There is no indication when these updates will launch.