Finally, you can rate the song in your playlist of songs you like on Spotify.
Playing the playlist of favorite songs on Spotify has always been a crapshoot for me – I never know if I’m going to get Steely Dan or Phoebe Bridgers or Ginuwine’s “Pony”. If that sounds like you (maybe without “Pony”, but that’s your problem), Spotify mercifully started to unfold mood and gender filters today for free and premium accounts.
Spotify says that for anyone with at least 30 songs on their playlist of favorite songs, they will be able to filter their music with up to 15 custom genre and mood categories. However, these mood and genre filters are populated based on the song in your playlist. This means that if you change the playlist by adding or removing titles, your mood and gender filters may also change.
To enable the feature, go to Your library and select Favorite songs. Below the “add music” button, but above the actual playlist, you should see additional bubbles that display your mood and gender filters. To filter by a specific category, select the bubble. To disable it, just click on the “X” that will appear next to it. In the Spotify feature demo, some of the filters included things like chill, indie, electronic, rap and folk.
Don’t be alarmed if you don’t see the appeal right away. Spotify said it is coming to iOS and Android in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia “in the coming weeks”, so stay tuned.