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How can I disable recommendations based on country (local suggestions)?


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Hello, I live outside of my home country and don't enjoy at all locals taste for music / local music / trends and the local music charts. Is there a way to configure Deezer to show / suggest and play only music of my taste, music inside the style already flagged by me?
I was listening a very immersive album and usually Deezer keeps on with the same style after the last track, but not this time (and some others). Some local terrible music started playing and completely ruined all that experience.
I had already tried to use foreign proxies / VPNs but my account seems to be glued to my geographical location, maybe coz my credit card billing address. Can this be fixed / changed? I'm almost giving up with Deezer and trying some alternatives. I already pay for Pandora that works fine but doesn't let me listen to an entire album like Deezer does.
I really appreciate your help.
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Best answer by musicpresident 12 October 2020, 21:20

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i don’t want that too. Should be personalized on my preferences
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Absolutely! They shouldn't tie your registration country to the region from which you'd like to receive music recommendations (and the music catalogue as well). Bugs me too every time.
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Hello Team,

Did you heared russian music? This is real trash can! Whole my life I listening only UK and USA music and some electronic bands from Europe but never russian artists. Yes I’m from Russia.

I need to change region for USA or UK and listen only this music but I don’t want to change my payment method to another country.

What can i do for this? How can i do this?
I live in Dubai but i don't listen to Arabic music. All the recommendations on the home page are Arabic and particularly Gulf Arabic music, which I never searched for or listened to. I get the copyright issues, but that should have nothing to do with the recommendations you provide users with. Honestly, Spotify do a much better job at that, you guys should seriously consider tweaking your AI and promoting tracks and artists the users care about. Not where they live!
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Thanks for your suggestion, we have passed it on to our devs! 😉
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Hey, I passed this idea on to the right team 😉
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This is important! I live in /non-english/ language country and it seems like that we don't have different genres. Throwing all songs of the same language in the same basket ... And I like 5, maybe 10 % of them. @tekkie solution would be great!
Hello.
As far as I see, all the suggested playlists depend on the geolocation, therefore most of all I see russian artists as I'm based in Russia.
Is it possible to add an option to chose the country with it's favourite/suggested playlists?
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Hi there @foxxmark

Let's put your comment here because the idea is linked to this. We just need to see more users voting for it!
@Rudi

I don't mind, bro
I am super annoyed with Deezer's feature of using IP/location as a way to determine the kind music your user would prefer.

First of all, people use VPN a lot.
Second of all, they travel. Some of us travel a lot.

Why do we have to wait for a month after i just paid to get rid of music suggestions that I was never interested in?

I suggest to add an option to customize menu on the Home Page.
So people could choose what to see on their homepage grid first.

P.S.: People have pattern-based preferences in everything, and music is the first one to be barely related to the location. Because there's Internet, TV, Radio.

Honestly, I didn't care for the first 3 months, but I keep seeing suggestions from countries I've visited like 3 months ago and I didn't listen to ANY of those songs ONCE.

WHY DOES DEEZER KEEP SUGGESTING IT?
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Hey @Johny.Su

Thanks for your feedback, I've moved it here, so that you can vote for the idea. If you don't use VPNs, you'd only get recommendations from the country of subscription purchase.
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We need more customization and the ability to choose or exclude music from region or languages !
There is absolutely 0 possibility of customization in Deezer that's really bad...
This! The reason I don't bother at all with these online entertainment services is that they push so much shite generated by some loosely averaged profiling and as it was pointed out, you need to be more active using the service to fight back that flow of dumb in order to keep your recommendations to your tastes, something that's actually very integral part of their business models, to trick the users to come back over and over again by gaming their heads with something users are urged to block. So sickening business and not at all in any good way. #deleteinternet
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This! The reason I don't bother at all with these online entertainment services is that they push so much shite generated by some loosely averaged profiling and as it was pointed out, you need to be more active using the service to fight back that flow of dumb in order to keep your recommendations to your tastes, something that's actually very integral part of their business models, to trick the users to come back over and over again by gaming their heads with something users are urged to block. So sickening business and not at all in any good way. #deleteinternet

Unfortunately just like you sad, it's a business aimed to the majority of listeners that doesn't know the difference between a major and minor key. Mainstream. End of the game. Spotify seems to be winning this battle, at least doesn't have the 2K limit for the favorite tracks list that it seems to be the seed for a good suggestion. Actually, with only a few hundred tracks added as favorites spotify is doing a much better job on suggesting new stuff. No bullshit!
I hate local songs. Always dislike them when i listen to them.
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It shouldn't be hard to implement option to disable suggestions based on location!

I see there are lots of really great suggestions and ideas on this forum, but nothing was implemented.
What are your devs doing all day at their work places? Moving buttons on the design from left to right or playing with NERF guns?
Please give users an option to disable location based suggestions, it is really annoying I get suggestions based on country where I am using the app, what if I dont like any of the songs? I don't like any of the songs but you keep suggesting them, why?Please give us an option.

The last entry is 8 months old. It seems that this problem has never been solved. I have entered 140 artists and some tens of favorites. I like to listen to Fusion or Nu-Jazz. So my preference should be clear now. And I'm constantly being suggested Frank Sinatra and Armstrong.  Makes me want to puke.  Now I just start the albums I like. I used to listen to AccuJazz. There are only automatic channels, but the selection was great, unfortunately AccuJazz doesn't have a subscription without advertising.

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Hi there @CodeFips 

Thank you for reporting this to us. I'll be forwarding your comments to our Recommendations Team. In the meantime, please check this topic here for some tips on Flow, for example :wink:

Hi, I've registered Deezer Family since 2017. 

 

I'm living in Saudi Arabia, yet I don't want to get recommendations of Arabic music on FLOW, Playlists, lists names  now in Arabic!! . It's like spamming!! 

Just add an option to (not to recommend songs based on region) please, and you can still keep songs copyrighs based on region. 

 

If I want Arabic music I would've subscribed to a local platform, and I don't want to keep skipping Arabic songs from recommendations while working!! 

 

Thank you. 

 

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Hi @Noora thank you for contacting us regarding this matter. 

Please bear in mind that the recommendations on the Deezer start page are not tailored to your taste of music. Only the sections “Made for you” and “Recommended releases” are tailored to your taste. Everything else is popular music of the country you are at. In case you do not like these please use other ways to discover new music, i.e. Flow, Discovery playlist, artist mix of your favourite artists, track mix of your favourite tracks etc. :wink:

It won’t be possible to have no recommendations of any location on the Deezer start page but our product managers are working hard on a project which will enable to change location to a Deezer country of your choice :slight_smile: Just patience is needed until this is realised. 

Apologies for any inconvenience caused. 

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Hi @Noora thank you for contacting us regarding this matter. 

Please bear in mind that the recommendations on the Deezer start page are not tailored to your taste of music. Only the sections “Made for you” and “Recommended releases” are tailored to your taste. Everything else is popular music of the country you are at. In case you do not like these please use other ways to discover new music, i.e. Flow, Discovery playlist, artist mix of your favourite artists, track mix of your favourite tracks etc. :wink:

It won’t be possible to have no recommendations of any location on the Deezer start page but our product managers are working hard on a project which will enable to change location to a Deezer country of your choice :slight_smile: Just patience is needed until this is realised. 

Apologies for any inconvenience caused. 

The option to change location to another deezer country is a MUST. Do you have any ETA? I keep getting suggestions from nearby countries on different languages which I don’t even know. And I don’t like local music at all. I prefer all English playlists/songs and I know i’m not the only one.

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Though I live in Germany, I couldn’t care less about German rap (and about rap at all). It would have been really helpful to disable recommendations of genres that user doesn’t like.

Even if you show me 100500 times a recommendation with German rap or Schlager I won’t click on it anyways, so you’re just wasting your resources. From the business perspective it would have been much more reasonable to present the customer recommendations that would be interesting to him on which he will actually click.

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Hello @blendkrasniqi thank you for outlining this further. We are sorry, there is no fixed expected date of implementation yet but I promise that we keep you updated on that :slight_smile:

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