Why does Apple Music Radio keep playing songs I've marked as "Dislike"

StockfloJeff wrote:

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I have been both a Deezer and Spotify subscriber over the last five years. My wife is on Apple Music and I was pretty impressed with the selections playing from Artist Radio, so decided to sign up for a trial.

I think Apple's got great algorithms for finding similar music, but the UI falls way short of the competition in a lot of ways:

1. Playing songs I've disliked - what's the point in having "For you" if you play stuff I dislike?

2. Only one curated playlist - Spotify has eight.

3. No Playlist Radio - on Spotify I can create a playlist of my favorites, then create a radio station based on it.

4. No "Liked" or "Added from Radio" playlist. Makes finding music I like very difficult to find. There's some tips on how to set up Smart Playlists, but they don't seem to solve the problem either.

Apple - we are loyal to you because you have a long history of taking the best of user experiences from all platforms and giving us intuitive, enjoyable devices and software. Please listen to what your customers have written here and in hundreds of other discussions or my money will be going toward your competition.

I also have this issue in the "For You" section, which I think shouldn't show music you disliked. I think apple needs to work this out, because a music streaming like Deezer will automatically skip a song on which you hit the dislike button.

I keep using Apple's service because I think they can do better with that. But I won't keep spending in a service that doesn't match my needs.

As far as I know the Apple music radio "stations" are basically just curated playlists based on genre or activity etc and the contents of the list aren't affected by an individuals likes or dislikes. Where dislikes should come into play is the "For You" recommendation section.

Yep, I have been having this same problem. I also get that the "For you" section will take into account the Likes and Dislikes. At the same time I would expect the "Radio" playlists to change songs in rotation every so often, but no it's been the same songs for the last 4 months at least on every radio station I have.