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Customize iTunes music recommendations

Is there a way to ban or dislike a whole music genre on itunes/music app? I live in South America but i really hate loud music, specially urban and reggaeton...


Seriously... For whatever reason Apple Music keeps recommending that kind of crap...



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MacBook Pro 15”, macOS 10.15

Posted on Aug 15, 2020 9:14 PM

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Posted on Aug 17, 2020 12:16 PM

No. There’s no way to like or dislike a genre.


Definitely log some feedback with Apple on that: Product Feedback - Apple


For now, maybe add Jesse & Joy, Ha*Ash, Sandoval, #TocoParaVos, Carman Maria, or such, and dislike those you don’t, and the recommendations will (should) sort themselves. (Si, escucho música en español.)


Based on what I’ve noticed with Apple Music, the initial selection of genres (mentioned in another reply) seeds the initial music recommendations.


Once seeded, the music recommendations are then derived from what you’re looking at and what you’re playing, on your playlists, and on what you’ve marked as liked 👍🏽 and disliked 👎🏽, and by what you’ve added to your library.


Again, based on supposition, there’d be no reason to change the initial seed, as that seed is seemingly only used for the early suggestions, and not once some data from your playing history and your feedback is available.


In a way, this recommendation processing is analogous spam filtering, deriving what mail is legitimate and what mail is spam; deriving what music you like and what you don’t. We all get to train the playback to our local preferences, just as our mail traffic is unique. Which means we get to 👍🏽 and 👎🏽.


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Aug 17, 2020 12:16 PM in response to jvillavi

No. There’s no way to like or dislike a genre.


Definitely log some feedback with Apple on that: Product Feedback - Apple


For now, maybe add Jesse & Joy, Ha*Ash, Sandoval, #TocoParaVos, Carman Maria, or such, and dislike those you don’t, and the recommendations will (should) sort themselves. (Si, escucho música en español.)


Based on what I’ve noticed with Apple Music, the initial selection of genres (mentioned in another reply) seeds the initial music recommendations.


Once seeded, the music recommendations are then derived from what you’re looking at and what you’re playing, on your playlists, and on what you’ve marked as liked 👍🏽 and disliked 👎🏽, and by what you’ve added to your library.


Again, based on supposition, there’d be no reason to change the initial seed, as that seed is seemingly only used for the early suggestions, and not once some data from your playing history and your feedback is available.


In a way, this recommendation processing is analogous spam filtering, deriving what mail is legitimate and what mail is spam; deriving what music you like and what you don’t. We all get to train the playback to our local preferences, just as our mail traffic is unique. Which means we get to 👍🏽 and 👎🏽.


Aug 17, 2020 9:04 AM in response to jvillavi

Hi jvillavi,


It sounds like you'd like to customize your preferences and only display certain content when using Apple Music.


When you join Apple Music you select artists and genres of interest, in order for future customization to occur. While this isn't able to be updated, we'd like to share info on what you are able to manage in Apple Music:


Customize Apple Music on Mac


You can also Love or dislike songs in Music on Mac as well as iOS devices and PC, to make the playback and customizations more accurate.


We hope this gets you listening to the music you desire.


Take care!

Customize iTunes music recommendations

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