[FEEDBACK] What do you think of "Flow"?
We wish to collect some of your feedback on Flow, that's why we are opening a new dedicated thread for you to share your feelings on this feature.
Do you like it? Why? What do you think we are missing?
Please be as detailed as you can in your comments, cheers!
Thank you for your input and feedback. Please vote for this idea here, we'd like to see it happening too 😉
I was looking for a song title just to get some information about it and its artist - I did not play that song and that song has nothing to do with any music I listen to.
After starting deezer and flow the next time one of the first songs played was this particular song.
This makes the search useless as I have to be afraid that my flow will be ruined just by searching for music - even without playing it.
Thanks for your detailed feedback - I'll be passing directly to the Flow and Search teams. Could you please tell me which app version you used when discovering this? We've had planned improvements deployed, it could be there's something wrong.
Thanks for getting back to me.
I noticed that some time ago with a previous app version - 6.1.9.78.
Meanwhile I updated the app to the latest version but haven't used the search function since then. 😬
Thank you for the feedback, we'll pass it on to our Flow teams 👍🏼
Previously, I had no such issue, it was working as it would need to work.
Anybody else experienced something like this?
Hi there
Thank you for your feedback. The good news is that we're currently working hard on taking Flow to a level above. Please bear with us and stay tuned
I enjoy Flow, but if you don't add things to you favorites often it gets quite repetitive. Also I might hear a song that I like and would want to hear more similar to it, but I don't like it enough to add it to my favorites. I would suggest an option to do another quiz as with sign up to update preferences, as there are new artists and artists I didn't know about before using Deezer and also a 'Like’ button option.
Hey
Thanks for the suggestions and input. We'll be passing this to our Flow teams in the meantime, please check our ideas forum for related feedback so that you can vote and support them!
So far this didn’t happen again - I tried several times.
But I see that others are also complaining about Flow being quite repetitive and that there are songs in Flow from different genres that have nothing to do with ones music taste.
Flow is decent. However, when you listen to a wide variety of genres, the playlist can get weird. Listening to a soft indie track and then the next song a black metal track doesn’t “flow” well. I think it should be fine if the main Flow playlist has a mix of everything you listen to, but the “a mix for you” ones should be more similar and each should be a little different. For example, if you were serving up “mix for you” playlists to me, it would make sense for one to be all indie rock or similar tracks, one to be hip hop, one to be slower r&b, and one to be black metal tracks. It makes more sense to me to be in a playlist of like songs, then if I want to switch genres I can go to a different “mix for you”.
Also, I’ve noticed that sometimes edited versions of tracks will pull into my Flow. Could you only include edited versions if the user turned off Explicit in their settings? I would never want to hear an edited track.
For the most part, in my case, covering a few dozen genres and over a hundred sub-genres in my library, I’ve been very impressed. Very accurate! Which is especially impressive given I’ve only been a customer for a couple of weeks so had little time to tell you what I dont like (I did migrate my whole library from Tidal though so you do have a bit of data.
But, while you might think I’m not fussy about music, quite the opposite. I’m VERY fussy, often not liking most recommendations from friends. I just like music across every genre.
The only exception is my suggestion in “Got Ideas?”. Far too often you play me the same song in Flow and Discovery. Introduce a timeout before repeating the same song.
But the recommendation Flows, listing specific artists, have been great. I’m in the middle of finding a bunch of new punk and hardcore. I haven’t been played a single track I didn’t like for over an hour. And I’m serious when I say I’m fussy. I love Bad Religion, but hate NoFX. I love old Pennywise but not a lot of the new stuff. It just seems spot-on.
Anyway thought you need some praise for the good job you’re doing.
While you cop a lot of criticism, the fact that people even bother sharing their feedback shows how much respect they have for you. You just need to look at their feedback with new eyes and walk in their shoes. 9/10 they have legitimate concerns and with your passion I know you can deliver. Your service is great.
someone told me once, when you’re juggling, don’t drop the crystal ball. You can drop the rubber ones, but if you drop the one crystal ball, you’re stuffed. Always recognise the crystal ball.
Hello, honestly flow is one of the reasons I subscribed to Deezer in addition to the large Arabic music library it has. That said, Deezer works well mostly yet, it does not seem to get yet that removing a song from favourites shall kind of decrease how often it plays in the flow, I do get that removing a song from favourites or skipping it would most probably not remove it from the flow, yet if I hear Katy Perry’s “Never Really Over” or Elissa’s “Wala Baad Snin” agian in the flow I will just lose it, and I have removed both from my favourites a relatively long time ago and skipped them multiple times.
Thank you for your detailed feedback
Hi all,
We wish to collect some of your feedback on Flow, that's why we are opening a new dedicated thread for you to share your feelings on this feature.
Do you like it? Why? What do you think we are missing?
Please be as detailed as you can in your comments, cheers!
Dear Helene,
Flow is not working in CarPlay…
Best
One thing I’ve realised since posting and from other threads is that there’s a lot of confusion about what “Flow” actually is, and what a “Mix” is. Everything I mentioned was actually a “Mix”. “Flow” just seems to be the one predictive automatic playlist right?
I’ll have to play around with Flow more and report back. Seems good though. Seems to keep updating.
Hi there
Thanks for the added feedback - I'll pass it on to the relevant teams here :thumbsup_tone2:
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