- Open the Spotify desktop app, then click the hamburger icon in the lower right-hand corner to open up your play queue. Once there, you can see what songs are going to play next, and more.
- Price: Free / $5.99-$12.99 per month iHeartRadio is one of the most popular solutions for radio apps. It has a large selection of stations to listen to, including FM stations.
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Download Spotify Stations: Stream radio and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Create stations based on the music you love, all for free with Spotify Stations. Select an artist, genre or even decade and Spotify Stations does the hard work for you. Spotify Of all the streaming services we looked at, Spotify has the most straightforward method of blocking artists from appearing on playlists and radio stations.
If you’re a fan of streaming music, personalized playlists, and mixes made “just for you,” you’ve no doubt run into some boring, bad and even downright offensive songs you’d rather not hear again. And if you’re familiar with the news surrounding today’s most popular artists, you probably have a running list of artists who you’d rather never hear again—no matter how good their newest single may be—because of their misogyny, or racism, or other problematic behavior.
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While you can’t hit fast-forward on your car radio, you can alter how your streaming service recommends songs to you and force it to never again play the tracks or artists you want out of your life—the extent of that control depends, though, on which streaming service you choose. Here’s how each major streaming service handles blocking and filtering artists from reaching your ears.
Amazon Music
Amazon Music, the default music service on its Echo devices, offers you both customized playlists and radio stations based on an artist or song you pick. It doesn’t let you filter or block artists from said playlists or stations, but you can upvote or downvote songs in radio stations to better personalize your listening experience.
You can, however, block songs with explicit language in them by hitting the three-dot menu icon in the “My Music” tab and enabling the “Block Explicit Songs” option. Amazon did not respond to TIME’s inquiry about blocking or filtering artists any further.
Tidal
Tidal, known for its catalog of high-bitrate music (for better audio quality) and Beyoncé’s visual albums, makes it relatively easy to block artists or even particular songs, and gives you an easy way to manage your list of expunged musicians once you’ve made one.
While you can’t block an artist directly from their artist page, you can block them (or a particular song) from their Artist or Track radio playlists, or from your “My Mix” playlist. If you know exactly who you want to cull from your listening experience, the quickest way to get it done is to visit the artist’s profile anyway, hit the radio button next to the artist name, tap one of their songs, and hit the block button at the bottom of the Now Playing screen.
Should you change your mind, you can hit the Settings icon in your “My Collection” tab, then scroll down to view and unblock all your selected artists and songs.
Apple Music
Apple Music, the company’s streaming-service alternative to its iTunes Store, features both Apple-curated playlists and custom radio stations that pick songs based on your listening history. But Apple Music won’t let you block an artist or filter their songs out of playlists; it does, however, enable you to adjust the app’s recommendation system based on how you rate songs.
You can vote to “love” or “dislike” songs in Apple Music, which it takes into account when building playlists based on your listening history. Apple did not respond to TIME’s inquiry about blocking or filtering artists any further.
Spotify
Of all the streaming services we looked at, Spotify has the most straightforward method of blocking artists from appearing on playlists and radio stations. While you can’t block specific songs, you can block an artist’s work by visiting their profile, hitting the three-dot menu icon, and selecting “Don’t play this artist.” After that, you won’t encounter them in any playlists or radio stations.
Pandora
Pandora’s personalized radio stations are perfect for discovering new artists and songs for your socially distant summer fun. But when it comes to dismissing artists you no longer want to hear, you only have one option: downvote them. That won’t entirely block the artist (or even that specific track), but it will reduce how often the artist appears in your radio stations.
In short, if you’re using Pandora, be sure to give the artist you want to avoid a thumbs down rating whenever possible to decrease the likelihood they pop up again in your stations.
YouTube Music
YouTube Music, parent company Alphabet’s replacement for its Google Play Music service (scheduled to shut down completely this December), doesn’t offer much in terms of artist control. Currently, YouTube Music does not allow users to filter or block artists.
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What is Spotify Radio?
Spotify Radio Stations
Spotify Radio is a function of Spotify that lets you create your own semi-custom radio stations. Basically, you start by picking a song, artist, album, genre, or playlist that you like. Then, Spotify will play that song (or a song from the artist, album, genre, or playlist that you chose), and then play a random sequence of songs that are from similar artists or genres.
You can then either like or dislike each song that you hear. Based on how you rate what you hear, Spotify will play more songs that are similar to the ones that you like, and avoid songs that are similar to the ones that you don’t like.
In other words, you can use your Spotify music collection and Spotify Playlists to keep the songs you already like in order, and use Spotify Radio to discover new songs that you might enjoy. You can even use your music and playlists to power Spotify Radio, making its recommendations even more accurate!
How To Play Radio On Spotify App
How does Spotify Radio work?
Open the Spotify application on your device of choice and log in.
Click Radio in the left-hand menu.
In the top-right corner of the main window, click New Station.
This will cause a search window to appear. If you haven’t typed anything in yet, it will simply display popular artists on Spotify. When you do begin typing in search terms, it will display songs, artists, albums, or playlists whose names match. Click one to start a radio station.
In the main window, you will see the current song playing for this station, as well as a history of songs that have played previously. When you have the current song selected, click the thumbs-down icon to dislike the song (which will automatically skip it), or click the thumbs-up icon to like it (which automatically adds it to a playlist called “Liked From Radio”). This will help Spotify learn what songs to play for you and which ones to avoid.
You can also simply click the arrow icon here to skip the song.
If you move your mouse cursor over a song’s album artwork, you will have some additional options.
Click the “+” icon to add the song to your collection of music, or click the “…” icon for advanced options, such as starting a playlist by adding this song to it, or sharing this song with your friends on Spotify, Facebook, Twitter, or Tumblr.
You can also click the Queue icon to see what songs are coming up, or click History at the top of the screen to see a complete history of the songs you’ve listened to on this radio station.
You can have up to 20 radio stations at once. Click Radio and scroll down to the “Your Stations” section. Click on the button in the middle of a station to play it, or click the “X” in the top-right corner of a station to get rid of it.
(NOTE: You can’t delete the station that you’re currently listening to.)
Spotify Create Station
That’s a brief walkthrough on how to use Spotify Radio!