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Streaming provider Spotify has been testing a function for some time that throws out everything that would otherwise unfortunately appear in automatically curated playlists and daily mixes. Some of these suggestions are based on algorithms that reflect user behavior (according to the motto: Anyone who listens to the soundtrack to “Bohemian Rhapsody” also likes “Somebody To Love” and Live Aid band U2). However, many users also suspect that Spotify deliberately puts certain bands on the lists that are better marketed.
Taylor Swift fans are sometimes confronted with the bombast of Helene Fischer’s hits, even if the similarities hardly go beyond hair color and power acrobatics on stage. This is exactly what should now be a thing of the past. With a simple click, an artist’s music is blocked in the personal library, in (automatically curated) playlists, charts, radios and in all other areas.
Spotify: Blocking music made easy
After that, it will no longer be possible to play songs or albums from an act that has been blocked again. To do this, it would first have to be activated again. Collaborations with other artists, as well as participation in different bands – the technology doesn’t go that far – are not affected by the self-imposed ban. If you’re tired of Macca’s solo work (is that even possible?), you can still listen to Wings.
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The new function can be accessed via the menu button on an artist page, where the “Don’t play this artist” option can then be selected. However, Spotify emphasizes that the block function has not yet been fully activated. The company had already flirted with such an option in 2017, but decided against it after “serious consideration”.
Satisfied grin, open shirt on bare chest – legs crossed: This is how Philipp Burger currently presents himself on Facebook. The Frei.Wild singer seems to have a lot of reasons to be happy and a reason to sit back. After he was disinvited from the Leipzig Book Fair (March 21-24, 2024), things now seem to be moving in his direction again.
“Yes guys, there was a lot of action there! There was a lot of unrest due to critical voices behind the scenes at Lit Pop. There was so much pressure that the organizer pulled the ripcord yesterday and I was then unloaded,” the 42-year-old wrote on the social network shortly before midnight yesterday (January 31st).
What had happened?
As Burger previously wrote on Instagram, he was removed from the program of the “LitPop” event. Because, as he says, another artist would otherwise have threatened to cancel. Burger reports that he is distancing himself from his right-wing radical past. In any case, Frei.Wild still enjoys an extremely high reputation in right-wing circles. Fans enthusiastically sing song lines like “Home means people, tradition and language” or “You can’t avoid /Looking at your country / Because your children will build on it later /Language, customs /And faith are values of the homeland / Without them we will perish /Our little people will die” at the top of their lungs. There are photos of him as a young man in which he gives the “Hitler salute”.
