Sleep Music is Taking Over my Apple Music Library

Hi Jaisah 2nd gen ipod touch,

Thank you for participating in the Apple Support Communities. We understand you don't want Apple Music to keep recommending the kind of music you like to sleep to. The best thing you can do is add your favorite artists and tell Apple Music what you love and what you'd like to see less of. This article explains more about this: See recommended music on iPhone.

"Add favorite artists

Go to an artist page, then tap the star at the top of the screen.

When you mark an artist as a favorite, they appear under Favorite Artists in For You, and their music is recommended more often. You can also choose to receive notifications when they release new music.

Tell Apple Music what you love

Do any of the following:

• Touch and hold an album, playlist, or song, then tap Love or Suggest Less Like This.
• On the Now Playing screen, tap , then tap Love or Suggest Less Like This.

Telling Apple Music what you love and dislike improves future recommendations."

We hope this helps.

Take care.

There’s no good way to do that, and unfortunately you can easily completely pollute the recommendations.

I looped one rain sounds playback overnight, and it took over a month to clean up the recommendations mess from that.

Dislike 👎🏼 “suggest less like this” is one of the few paths. And it takes a while.

If you are using HomePods, you can have some other options around not including feedback from what you play via those into your Apple Music preferences.

And you can shut off all feedback history, as described here: See recommended music on iPhone - Apple Support

Shortcuts doesn’t have access to that setting unfortunately, so no means to automate that toggle.

Really ugly: If you have Family Sharing enabled and an Apple Music Family Plan, if you have not used all six Apple IDs, you could add one and switch to and use that.

Log some feedback with Apple: Product Feedback - Apple

Jaisah 2nd gen ipod touch wrote:

Thanks for taking the time to reply to this.

I managed to mostly clear it out just by going to Apple Music Sleep Playlist, selecting all and clicking "Suggest Less Like This". I did that for a few of the sleep playlists and it seems to have mostly cleared them off my suggestions but I still get some occasionally.

Your weekly New Music Mix playlist might be skewed for a while. Mine was definitely skewed.

How do I set it so that music I play on my HomePod doesn't affect my music library?

My bad. Having just looked for the setting, it's gone.

Seems it's been replaced by the ability to have multiple Apple IDs logged into the HomePod.

Only way I can see to disable the inclusion of feedback (now) is to use a different Apple ID, but that means having Apple Music Family and Family Sharing set up, and a spot for "spare" ID. Which is a lot of work.

As an alternative to something in a playlist somewhere, there are ~seven built-in ambient sound generators, which don't involve Apple Music or anything else. Fireplace, Forest, Night, Ocean, Rain, Stream, and White Noise. You can either use an automation to trigger them within Home app, or ask Siri to play them.

(This is what I switched to, rather than an audio file from Apple Music or elsewhere. Apple Music is entirely too good at analyzing the audio files and offering to add way more of that same audio to my recommendations, too.)

Here's the playback part of an automation in Home app on iPadOS showing Night ambient sound playback.