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Milan Van Laar
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Hitmaker
January 22, 2025
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Songs playing in wrong language

  • January 22, 2025
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Hi

Some songs are playing the wrong language when the songs are placed in playlists or in favourite tracks. This happens for some korean songs. If i play them from my favourite tracks it will play the song in Japanese while im actually clicking on the korean version, but when i search the song and play it from the artist page it will play the correct (korean) version. One of the songs that have this issue is “As if it's your last” by “Blackpink”. There were way more songs with this issue, but after i updated the app some songs started playing the correct version again. Before updating the app songs like “Boombayah” by “Blackpink” and “Batter up” by “Babymonster” were also playing in janpanese instead of korean, but “as if it's you last” and some other songs are still bugged in the latest version.

It's a little weird because if actually add both the korean and japanese version of the songs in my favourite tracks, it will both play in japanese. The only way for me to play the original (korean)  version is by searching for the song and playing it from the artist page.

 

I asked a friend to reproduce the bug on her phone, so different phone and different account. She also has this bug but for her it's the other way around. “As if its your last” plays the correct (korean) version in her favourite tracks, but when she plays the song by using the search function it wil actually play in japanese.

 

EDIT: This only happens for me in the mobile version. The web version is working perfectly fine for me

Best answer by Greg.Deezer

OK, then I suggest we wait until things settle down first.

And if there is still an issue, I’ll check with the team in charge of the catalog.

Cheers

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Milan Van Laar
Hitmaker
Hitmaker
February 3, 2025

OK, then I suggest we wait until things settle down first.

And if there is still an issue, I’ll check with the team in charge of the catalog.

Cheers

Hi, i was wondering if the settling process is finished or still going on, because te connection between songs and albums is still not working for a lot of different songs and albums and lyrics buttons for those songs still don't work.

Product Team
February 3, 2025

Hello ​@Milan Van Laar 

Yes, the process is finished.

Do you have examples of songs & albums we can investigate on?

Thanks

Milan Van Laar
Hitmaker
Hitmaker
February 3, 2025

Hi ​@Greg.Deezer 

songs from the "4 only" album that I put in this playlist: https://deezer.page.link/QPMka54MrU9X8Ydh6 dont show a lyrics button, but when i click on go to album and play them from there they do. In this playlist it also doesn't say I added the song "only" to my favourites, but on the album page it says I do which is true.

 

 

 

And all the songs from the "the party never ends" album by juice wrld in this playlist: https://deezer.page.link/ZDWkUnmFWjT5U5QU8 (except for "empty out your pockets" because i added that to my favourites when the 2.0 version was actually released) also dont show lyrics button when playing from my favourites, but when i click on go to album it doesn't even show that I added the songs to my favourites. But again I added those songs "misfit", "goodbye" and "oxycodone" before the 2.0 version was released. 

 

 

 

There might be more songs/albums with this issue but these are the ones I'm currently aware of.

 

I'll add some screenshots:

 

Milan Van Laar
Hitmaker
Hitmaker
February 3, 2025

Hi ​@Greg.Deezer 

I just found out that the entire "f*ck love" saga by the kid laroi has the same problem. I'm not 100% sure but it might have something to do with artist releasing a deluxe or addition to an album and deleting the old one, but the old songs not correctly fusing with the new album. Because with the "fuck love" saga I only have the issue with the first two parts but the third and most recent part is working perfectly fine. Which is also what's happening on the other albums, the newly added songs work perfectly fine but the old songs that were already released are bugged.

Product Team
February 4, 2025

Hello ​@Milan Van Laar 

Pretty good investigation work :)

The issues you’re pointing at are linked to multiple deliveries of an album by an artist indeed and what we call fallbacks (transparently falling back on the right track).

The easiest way to fix it on your side would be to unfavorite/re-favorite the tracks that you have issues with and you should be good to go.

We’ll still work on the lyrics button issue to properly handle it in that specific case but I can’t give you any timeline.

Hope this helps 

Milan Van Laar
Hitmaker
Hitmaker
February 4, 2025

 Hi ​@Greg.Deezer 

I guess ill just wait then. I don't want to fuck up the order of my playlists by re-favoriting the songs

Is there any way to change the order of the songs when sorting on “recently added”? i remember this was a thing before deezer rebuilded the entire app a few years ago but this doesn't work anymore

 

Milan Van Laar
Hitmaker
Hitmaker
February 4, 2025

 

Hello ​@greg_deezer and ​@Leonídia.Deezer ,

This is very weird… This bug was happening for over a month, maybe even longer, but for some reason if i play the song now it acually plays the song corectly. I checked it 4 hours ago before i created this topic, but at that time the bug was still happening.

Could it be possible that this bug was related to the “wrong track availabilty status” bug that greyed out songs in playlists? Because ​@greg_deezer said that the fix for that bug needed some time to spread to the whole catalog, and it's only been 2 days since that bug was fixed. All the other songs that were playing in the wrong language are also working corectly now.

Btw, for some reason after this bug magically got fixed today, it swapped the lyrics of the song with the other version. So the korean version has japanese lyrics and the japanese version has korean lyrics. It wasn't like this a few hours ago when the song was still bugged. Both the phone app and web version have wrong lyrics now.

This is the korean version of the song: https://deezer.page.link/5iZuLuYC2LibSJjLA 
And this is the japanese version of the song: https://deezer.page.link/bLnAia5kNpyLnjAc6

 

Also ​@greg_deezer, no i'm not located in Japan, I live in the netherlands.


 

@Greg.Deezer 

btw the song i mentioned here before ^ still has the lyrics language swapped. this also isn't fixed with the settling proces

Product Team
February 4, 2025

 Hi ​@Greg.Deezer 

Is there any way to change the order of the songs when sorting on “recently added”? i remember this was a thing before deezer rebuilded the entire app a few years ago but this doesn't work anymore

 

Well “recently added” is based on the date of the addition so you can’t change it.

But you can have a custom sorting where you select the position of each track.

Milan Van Laar
Hitmaker
Hitmaker
February 4, 2025

 Hi ​@Greg.Deezer 

Is there any way to change the order of the songs when sorting on “recently added”? i remember this was a thing before deezer rebuilded the entire app a few years ago but this doesn't work anymore

 

Well “recently added” is based on the date of the addition so you can’t change it.

But you can have a custom sorting where you select the position of each track.

But that means i have to reposition 800 tracks, so I guess I'll just wait until the bug gets fixed 😅

Milan Van Laar
Hitmaker
Hitmaker
March 19, 2025

Hello ​@Milan Van Laar 

Pretty good investigation work :)

The issues you’re pointing at are linked to multiple deliveries of an album by an artist indeed and what we call fallbacks (transparently falling back on the right track).

The easiest way to fix it on your side would be to unfavorite/re-favorite the tracks that you have issues with and you should be good to go.

We’ll still work on the lyrics button issue to properly handle it in that specific case but I can’t give you any timeline.

Hope this helps 

Hello ​@Greg.Deezer 

 

I was wondering if you guys could give me a little update on this issue. I feel like it's started getting worse since a few days, and now even songs released as singles don't show the lyrics button but when I click on "go to album" it does show. The weird thing is, with those singles it does show that it's added in my favourite, but as we previously saw, when it comes to albums having multiple version it wouldn't even show that the songs were added to the playlist from the album page.

Edit: btw some singles that have this issue won't even show lyrics at all. If I click on "go to album" and open the lyrics from there I get a blank screen