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How to stop auto play on Deezer - when last track ends

  • 9 January 2021
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Hi

I simply want to stop deezer automatically playing new/random music when my track/album ends.

Not interested in recommendations, I just want to control what I to listen to (at all times), not what some AI thinks I want.

This is easy in spotify, but I can't find this simple setting in Deezer. Trial started today

This is a deal breaker, I like the app so far.

 

Android - Samsung S9 - deezer up to date

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Best answer by Yula 19 November 2021, 13:54

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Yes, this bothers me a lot.  Deezer should work like a classic player.  I choose what I want to play.  Then I don't want something else that I don't want to start playing automatically.  This feature should be optional as Autoplay on Spotify but not by default.

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Yes please, I want to select and listen to only one album or playlist and then stop. Please.

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Very simple request. I never, ever, want to hear anything that I haven’t hit play on or added to the play queue. No matter where I start playback from. I use desktop and mobile. How do I configure settings to achieve this?

Thank you for looking into this, I’d like to make Deezer my primary lossless steaming platform (I’ve used them all, and will be a lifetime subscriber of the ideal service), but I’ll have to look elsewhere if this is not an option in the interface. 

 

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My kids use deezer to get to sleep and I would really appreciate to somehow stop the device playing sound all night.

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HOW THE FUCK IS THIS ULTRA-BASIC PROBLEM NOT SOLVED 8 MONTHS LATER?!?!?!

 

Desktop user here. Used the switch to turn off recommendations. Now that switch has disappeared from the queue screen, BUT I STILL GET RANDOM SHIT AUTOPLAYING AFTER MY QUEUE ENDS!!!

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The same issue here on Win10 desktop.

Please make it possible to play one album only when the user chooses to play one album.

It’s quite annoying that Deezer decides on its own to play more songs that I actually don’t want to listen to.

Thanks in advance for fixing this :-)

 

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Doesn’t appear to be a solution for not hearing unrelated music after I play a song I searched for on desktop. This is the final time I hear some random song play that I didn’t want to hear. Subscription cancelled. 

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This feature as the title of the thread suggests is called Autoplay in Spotify. It is accessed in the mobile app under home/settings/autoplay

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Can you please simply explain to me why it is not possible to disable this feature on a mobile app when it is possible to do on a desktop? Is it really that terribly complicated? Next, can you explain to me why after the album is over, music starts playing that I don't listen to at all and don't like? Let me give you an example. Today I was listening to an album from the movie Rocky III. That album is from 1982 After the end, some terrible techno and hard dance started playing automatically, which I don't listen to at all, and it ruined my whole listening and really pissed me off. I could understand if a similar style of music started playing, but I don't understand why it jumps to a different level and something else that I don't have in albums or performers at all? Can you please explain? It's really upsetting. thanks

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Nothing ruins the vibe like some commercial garbage playing out of nowhere.

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How is it that sometimes there is not a simple “play this song next” queue? Why am I sometimes not presented with an option to place the new track at the front or end of the existing queue?

 

Also, a very minor thing I noticed on the MacOS desktop app is that there is no (command + , ) shortcut to get to settings like most other apps generally have. That would be a nice easy addition.

I'm about to cancel my subscription too as I really hate that deezer decides for me what I must listen to.

 

If I click one song I just want to play that one song. Not another 41 songs that Deezer adds to my playlist!!

To stop autoplay on Deezer when the last track ends, you can disable the "Autoplay" feature. Here's how:

  1. Open Deezer and go to the "Now Playing" screen.
  2. Click on the "Queue" icon (usually at the bottom right).
  3. Find the "Autoplay" toggle and switch it off.

Note that the availability and location of this option may vary depending on the device and app version you are using, so it may be useful to consult Deezer's official help documentation for the most accurate instructions.

just moved from spotify to deezer yesterday and found that there’s no way to turn this feature off

 

vote +1 to add this feature

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I turned this automated suggestions feature off and somehow it’s back on. 100% dealbreaker. 

@Yula 

The automatic recommendations unfortunately have nothing to do with the problem mentioned in the thread. I also deactivated it, but when casting, more titles are placed in the queue that are not wanted. :disappointed_relieved:

I have tried to use Deezer for bedtime stories to put my kids to sleep and the unability to turn this autoplay thing is very annoying as it keep playing tracks on and on. The moblie app keeps on pushing stories and we get into fights with the kids when I have to stop the autoplay. I have been looking how to turn autoplay off at the end of a track but no luck.

Hi @Rudi ,

I get the same issue when I use Deezer on Sonos with Alexa. Specifically, when I request Alexa to play an Album (Deezer is set as my default music streamer), a Deezer playlist starts playing when the album concludes.

Would this fall under ‘casting’ or ‘android track mix’ or is it another issue altogether?

Update: The android app for Amazon Music is terrible, almost unusable. The desktop app isn’t much better.

 

I have a semi-workaround to play one song, dragging the song to the bottom of the queue is relatively quick (approx 4 seconds). Also, searching a playlist so that there is one song found allows for one song to be played by itself. Overall, it’s not too bad, the android app is very responsive, so managing queues/playlists is not frustrating.

Having compared Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music and Deezer, it’s clear that Deezer and Spotify have the better Android apps. They are similar in speed and allow you to search your playlists, which is suprisingly important for me.

Apple Music’s auotmix is more annoying than Deezer’s and the app, while visually appealing, isn’t as functional in some areas. It also has an ‘Apple UI’ feel, e.g. the back button on android does nothing on many screens, and there are many context based gestures. As an andriod user it feels awkward, you may like it if you have an iphone.

Amazon Music is by far the worst, in terms of app quality, I have encountered many bugs and glitches in a short time. It’s also incredibly slow to manage playlists, adding a song can take 10+ seconds. Deleting songs from your library can only be done one at a time, which is insane. No playlist search and a buggy playlist sort feature (it struggles to sort by recently added). The desktop app is a joke, slow and buggy with zero additional functionality compared to the website.

Spotify is still the standard bearer, with only one real major downside, no lossless. Also, some of my favourite songs have been removed from the platform (but this could happen to any of them). After 5 plus years of Spotify premium, I’ve been lucky to have few complaints. The desktop app is by far the best at managing your library, fast and responsive. Being able to use ctrl, shift, ctrl-a/c/v, etc, is so good.

Deezer so far is a close second, the UI is familiar coming from Spotify. The MP3 upload is easier to operate than Spotify, and songs are actually uploaded to Deezer’s servers, unlike Spotify (which is more akin to transfer between devices). Uploaded music can be seemlessly integrated with your playlists, just like Spotify. However, there is still no excuse for not being able to disable trackmix.

I will see how I feel at the end of the trial.

 

 

 

Hey @mareep@Neebl Have you deactivated the “Automated recommendations”? You have to do it from browser or desktop app. Start playing the album, Open the queue, Scroll down and deactivate Automated recommendations. 

This isn't an adequate answer. Of course I've deactivated the “Automated recommendations" in the queue. The autoplay is still happening when I'm casting to my smart speakers.

Apologies everyone, just wanted to make sure it was deactivated! This is an abnormal behaivour, I have notified our devs team about it. Thanks for reporting it. 

 

I did that, but even on the android app, every time I search for just one song I wish to listen to, there comes a playlist I didn’t ask for right afterwards. I hate the way deezer pushes new music. I control the things that play , not someone else. It’s exhausting.

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I'm not sure what 'casting is. For me it is happening when I get to the end of the track or album I have been listening to. This is streaming onto my my Android phone (Samsung S9).

Thank you for paying close attention to feedback, this is very highly appreciated.

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Hi Rudi and thanks for your reply.

I found the toggle switch at the end oft the queue-list. Thanks for that :-)

Maybe it’s a good idea to put this switch somewhere else (maybe in “setting” or “prereferences” or so).

Since I never used the queue-list-view before it was impossible to find it without your help.

 

BTW: The little “back” button (<) does not always work as excpected in the desktop app. I did not find out yet in which way exactly but sometimes it has not function at all or it is stuck in a kind of loop.

It would be nice if this button would bring the user back exactly to the previous visited pages.

Hi @Gizmo2021 

Have you tried our Deezer Sleep timer?

That will help a lot!

  1. Select any music, audiobook, radio or podcast content to launch your Deezer player
  2. Tap the Sleep timer Sleep_timer_Chrono.jpg icon on the middle-bottom of the screen
  3. You can select your desired duration:
    • 5 minutes
    • 10 minutes
    • 20 minutes
    • 30 minutes
    • 45 minutes
    • 1 hour
  4. On iOS devices, you can also select:
    • End of track
    • End of episode
  5. You will see a notification to confirm timer is set

Note: To turn off Deezer's sleep timer feature or adjust duration, simply select the Sleep timer Sleep_timer_Chrono.jpg icon

Enjoy Deezer!! :nerd:

 

Now that is an awesome solution. Could you recommend some albums that are exactly 

  • 5 minutes
  • 10 minutes
  • 20 minutes
  • 30 minutes
  • 45 minutes
  • 1 hour

long? Thank you in advance. 

P. S.: LOL

 

Edit: Here was nonsense written by me, because I read the thread but hadn't really understood it due to tiredness. Sorry.

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Deezer doesn't even deserve a censored dollar until he learns to play just what he's asked to.

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