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January 16, 2019

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

  • January 16, 2019
  • 354 replies
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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!
Pinned Reply By hpguru

I was also at first disappointed with the recommendations, but you need to learn Flow.  Play play play, everything you love and give hearts to your favorite songs and playlists and albums, add as many of your favorite artists and play play play and ban artists you don't like and Flow will soon catch your note.  I am very satisfied.  But you have to make friends and devote time to it.

Yes, indeed. Let it learn.

On first day lame, now it is much better than Google’s Feeling lucky which was okay, but always played same favourites over and over and over again. On Deezer I hear new tracks, new favorites, old classics over and over and over again. Today I paid ONE YEAR in advance for this great service.

Pay 10 months and get 12 months is their annual discount. I paid years for Spottily and then GPM receiving no discounts for loyalty. This is my new home for hard dance music since 29.06.20.

They gave me option to keep 2 months I already had trial. They suggested next time I need to cancel with them, go free, and buy annual again with discounted prices unless they give better ways.

I like flow, I like mixes, this service is good bargain at 99,90 a year for this amazing quality.

It works like a charm when something is great.

This is great, worth to pay.

354 replies

Hitmaker
February 9, 2022

I'm about to give up on flow completely. I have a bunch of artists liked, mostly rock and pop (American)... Today flow has decided that I listen to nothing but Spanish language /Latino music. No matter how many songs I dislike or skip, that's ALL it plays. 

Roadie
February 10, 2022

I'm loving flow so much. It's given me lots of new artists to listen to. One thing I would like is to be able to restrict by genre. So Flow Metal, Flow EDM, or Flow Hip Hop for example. It would be ready nice for days where I feel like something different.

Roadie
February 11, 2022

Hi there, recent convert from another platform. Pretty sure flow is badly broken...

 

I really like the flow concept a lot and for the first few days it seemed great, it took my suggestions and built something good. Bit heavy on the AC/DC, but who doesn’t like a bit of AC/DC … :grinning:

 

Then at some point about a week ago it went into “Synthwave”. I like and have favourited about four synthwave bands, out of (so far) 117 artists I’ve got favourited. And now it won’t play anything else. No matter how many times I say “Don’t recommend this artist” or skip the track, it just finds ever more obscure synthwave bands to throw at me. This has been going on for about a week.

I’ve tried adding more artists, albums and tracks to my favourites and nothing much is happening. I have now hit “don’t recommend this artist” on so many synthwave acts that flow now often errors out and takes me back to the default playlist starting with that Elton John/Dua Lipa track.

 

Is it wrong to expect to go straight into Flow?

Roadie
February 11, 2022

Lately (since start 2022) Flow is sh*t.

I listen mostly to rock/metal, also in my own language (dutch)

But now flow is giving Folk singers, Apres ski music, rappers and even childrens songs just because “they are Dutch”.

I have been clicking on “do not recommend artist” about 2 times a day for a month now.

One Hit Wonder
February 22, 2022

As others are saying here, the shift in moods and genres is too random and wild. My flow will shift from soul coughing to limp bizkit to dave matthews band to system of a down to midnight oil. I know because it did that to me today. It makes it impossible to get into a groove as it keeps jerking my attention away from what I’m doing.

mournfulpigeon
Rising Star
Rising Star
February 22, 2022

What bothers me most is that it plays too much of my songs marked as favorites. For that I can play just that. Flow should learn from genres, authors that I listen. And then play something similar. Maybe it would be good to have some settings, like: check if you would like that flow play your favorite songs, check if you want to hear only songs that you haven't played yet ... I know, that perhaps most of listeners like only to hear songs that they already now. I would like to find what I've been missing. What is good out there (in my taste) but haven't heard it.

Thank you for asking. Hope to see some changes.

Maybe a slider in the settings to choose the ratio favourite - new songs. For example: if you want 30% of all songs in Flow to be your favourites and 70% new discoveries, move the slider to 30%.

Guitar Hero
February 23, 2022

Utterly useless.  I liked two K-pop songs, flow is now 100%, no exception, K-pop.  Disliked every artist.  Favorited actual music that I like.  No change.

Guitar Hero
February 23, 2022

I don’t like flow that much. Too much music I don’t like, too much the list hits, too much jumping back and forth with my favourite band and some different style.

Guitar Hero
March 10, 2022

Two fixes:

  • Show ‘up next’ songs instead of hiding what’s coming up. I care more about what’s going to play that what has already played.
  • Allow ‘add to queue’ and ‘play next’ at any moment no matter how the music started (single song, playlist, album, flow, mix, radio whatever).
Roadie
June 23, 2022

It’s far too repetitive, there needs to be an option “Do repeat tracks for 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, 1 year” I’ve created a smart playlist on Musicbee which easily does this, and more (play count and rating considered), so when I get feed up of Deezer repeating itself I go back to playing Musicbee when I’m using my desktop at home in the car Deezer just gets switched of.