Spotify is giving you the keys to its algorithm. Here’s how to change what it recommends

Spotify is aiming to personalize your user profile more than ever before. On Wednesday, the streaming platform launched Taste Profile, a new feature which seeks to give users more say in what the platform recommends. The company says the innovation will allow the platform to better understand your taste, “whether you want to explore beyond your usual interests or fine-tune what you already love.” In order to explore the new feature, users can tap their profile picture and select Taste Profile. There, listeners will have the ability to leave notes, which will enable the platform to make specific kinds of recommendations based on what they’re hoping to hear more of when using their Spotify app. They can do so by using the “Tell us more” prompt to direct the app with messages. Simple language will allow the app to make better suggestions. You can type directions like “play more country music,” or “find new artists that sound like Lizzo,” or “suggest more true crime podcasts.” The options are essentially limitless. Users can ask for music recommendations based on artists they already enjoy, explore entirely different styles of music, or seek out new podcasts in a category that’s of in…