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

My post from a few days ago, with a bit more detail than the rant above.

https://en.deezercommunity.com/features-feedback-44/customizing-or-eliminating-genre-heavy-flow-artists-is-deezer-pushing-country-music-too-much-72059

I’ve just been testing out Flow in my free trial, since it’s one of the main features motivating me to switch to deezer. Unfortunately it isn’t really working for me. I would say about a third of my favourited tracks are kpop, but Flow is giving me 100% kpop. I’d like to get a variety of music from all the genres that I like, not just one of them.

I have favourited more tracks from other genres and a confirmation message says “Flow has been updated”, yet I have skipped through dozens of kpop songs and have yet to be given anything even remotely in the same genre as the new songs I’ve favourited.

My guess is that Flow is giving far too much priority to “popular” songs in general, since even the kpop that it gives me is just from a handful of the most popular kpop artists, it doesn’t even give me songs from less well known kpop artists even though many of them are set as favourites.

I have also had the issue where the same song is recommended repeatedly. Screenshot below. This is on the latest iOS app version and it happened just before I posted this. In fact this happens even after saying “Don’t recommend this artist”.

Flow for me has evolved considerably over the past year. There are still days of both “love it” and “leave it” but giving it time and a greater number of recommendations has certainly made a huge difference. I also notice that the Deezer recommendations are responding well to my listening habits, and I get a lot of new music on my Sunday, Monday and Friday recommendations. Cool as well to check out album pages and track mixes. No, not perfect as Flow and Deezer cannot predict my mood, but that is why I have a variety of playlists to choose from. Better than Apple Music that I migrated over from, and other family members who use Spotify are similarly impressed. 

I have a post above lamenting about playing too much country music with no data to support this in my listening habits or profile. Today I fire up Flow, the first seventeen songs are, you guessed it - country.

I can’t fight it anymore. I’m looking into refund policy and will see you all on Tidal.

Flow on!

Flow is terrible, to say the least. It’s an infinite mix of the same songs from my Favourites with some “classics” mixed in-between, in the same order that it was yesterday, and the day before. 

I pretty much only listen to Flow now, takes a while (months) to get to know you but once it does its almost brilliant.

Only downsides:-

 - sometimes plays the same song (sometimes even one after the other) as that song is on multiple albums

 - “Don’t reccomend this artist” missing for some atrists (noticibly the Beatles)

 - Daren’t listen to a track to see what it’s like, it will return to my flow for eternity.

 - Just because I “liked” the human league does not mean that I want to listen to “Bronski Beats” “Smalltown boy” twice a day!

Would love to be able to :-

 - exclude Live and Compilation albums.

 - Have some kind of “mood” option would be nice, same flow but with emphasis on rock/regge/80’s depending on my mood

Thanks for your feedback @nipsy 
We are glad that you enjoy your Flow 
We do have Flow Moods. You can check all the info here: https://support.deezer.com/hc/en-gb/articles/115004367189-Improve-Your-Deezer-Flow-And-Play-Flow-Moods#how_to_play_flow_moods
 

Is that available in the Windows app, I don’t see it.   If I click the Flow Icon it just pauses or Plays

Hey @nipsy 

Flow Moods is currently only available for smartphone apps. However, for desktop/web version there is an idea where you can vote:

I’m a very new user who imported likes over from a competitor. So far, Flow seems cool. I would like more of a mood option, and I listen primarily on a PC. So I’ll be voting for that feature.

I would like more for Flow to take over after an album is over, and for the genre / tempo / tonality of the album to influence the mood of Flow; so far, the pools of album radio seem rather shallow, and include tracks from the album I ust listened to too frequently.