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

Until now I’ve been very dissatisfied with Flow, but today it seems to be working pretty well.  It is playing a decent range of good music.  It still doesn’t quite do what it claims (“and new discoveries”) though - mostly playing songs I already know well.

Whether “new” is supposed to be outside the era of my favourites, actually new or unknown songs from the era, I am not sure …  but on the rare occasion it does actually play something I’m unfamiliar with it is usually pretty bad!  (I do wonder if bands do deals with streaming services but I will say no more about this.)

If it played more “new” material I would be happy with it.

Sigh… having said that, it is now repeating like crazy.  There must be thousands of tracks to choose from and it keeps playing the same ones.

Hey @soakes! 

Thank you for the feedback! 🙂

I will send it to the right team. 🕵🏼

Take care!✌🏽

I think there is a technical issue with Flow which is causing a lot of the song-repetition angst.  It’s hard to describe under what circumstances it happens, but sometimes it starts repeating the playlist, as though you’ve just started it from scratch.  It will play exactly the same songs as it has already played, and in the same order.  What causes it to restart the playlist I do not know, but it happens.

The problem is exacerbated when you have 2 devices.  You might stop playing Flow on one device, then get in your car and play it on your other device and it will play all the same songs that it has played before.  I get the impression it pre-loads the playlist rather than selecting a new song after each song.  Worse, it doesn’t seem to keep track of which songs have already been played, so it will play them again.

whatever you've been doing to flow as ruined it for me. it no longer plays a variety of music just plays the same crap I've listened to already. liking or unliking favoriting stuff doesn't change this era of music it's stuck in no matter what I do it doesn't play what it's been playing what just feels like last week or so. flow is unlistenable every song is something I've heard or pulled from the same era with no variation undo whatever you have been doing to it.

sorry to hear this @gutsman52, can you try following the steps in this link? 

i’ve done everything already to try to “improve my flow” or whatever it didn’t change ANYTHING. It was fine like a week or two ago it was my favorite part of deezer now it only plays the same crap over and over there is no variation of music genre it just plays the same stuff i’ve heard 1,000 times already. It use to be the thing i got new music from now its the thing i hate to hit play on. I’ve liked songs in different genres, unliked songs in others and just about everything that has been suggested it doesn’t do jack. 

Have you tried our track mixes @gutsman52? 

Try listening to thise for a while and then go back to Flow 

I have had the same experience with Flow. I have been on Deezer about 6 months; the first 3 were fantastic!!!!  I thought Flow was the greatest invention since……  anyway, then it all went to hell. Despite having hundreds of favorite tracks and a few less hundred favorite artists, all I hear now is the same ol’ stuff on Flow, over and over, sometimes literally on the same day.  I was getting very upset, especially since I had just ponied up for a year’s subscription!

Then, I accidentally stumbled across the playlists inspired by specific songs. I know I had used this feature before, but either I had not been paying attention or this feature has become remarkably better in the past few months. I use these playlists all the time and I am now hearing new music (to me anyway) that is as good or better than some of my fave music. Please keep this feature. For me it is one of the best parts of Deezer.

I am again bragging about Deezer to friends. And to think I came close to losing faith.

Hi @Geolog great to hear that you are enjoying the playlist inspired on specific songs.

There isn’t any plans to remove it, as far as we know.

Regarding your feedback on the Flow, have you try to use the Flow Moods?

Also we have already available for iOS the Flow Genres and soon it will arrive to Android as well. We hope this will improve even more the experience.