[FEEDBACK] What do you think of "Flow"?

@Rudi 

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. 

We're working on it @Razorblade thanks for your continued feedback!

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 @teqteq @Zaid Bawab we agree there's a lot of work to do with our Flow - but we're also proud of what we achieved so far. It's thanks to your suggestions that we know how to approach improvements. Flow is learning more with users input at the moment, and once our ban feature gets fully released, it should be even better :thumbsup_tone2:

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 @teqteq @Luis Fernando Marques 

Thanks for the added feedback - I'll pass it on to the relevant teams here :thumbsup_tone2: