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

+1 from me, I neither used Flow very much anymore, as it tends to play too many well-known hits and favorites of bands in my library - like Foreigner: of course "Cold As Ice", AC/DC: you bet "Highway To Hell" etc. which gets boring very fast. So maybe a switch for "Discovery Mode" in Flow would help for people who feel more adventurous than others. ;)

Lately I tried Flow again after mainly listening to my self-created large playlists with classical and baroque music for a long time, and the algorithm has at least picked up that change, so there is a lot of classical music in Flow now with occasional appearances of "Cold As Ice" again.

Just as others have already said, Flow is just a mixture of songs from your playlists, massive hits and the odd random throw in that the listener hates but can't dismiss because the reject button still doesn't work after years of complaints. I've just given it a go and it played the same tracks it played every single other time I've ever tried it. It's totally useless and it's very, very boring.

Thanks @simonali

I get your point. I'll pass the feedback on.

I wrote here.
https://en.deezercommunity.com/got-an-idea-9/delete-all-your-favorite-tracks-from-the-flow-and-mixes-57115

Hi there @SkipperSnail

I can't seem to find that topic - is it related to this?

I like Flow, because it allows me a 1-click-personalized experience. I would appreciate though, if it would fee more like a personalized radio station. What does that mean? I would love the opportunity to not only have music, but also spoken word as part of the flow stream. Spoken word should be made up of two components in my view:
1) news podcasts, i.e. hourly (this can be pulled from a news podcast into the stream, i.e. (I'm in Germany) the Deutschlandfunk Nachrichten (https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/podcast-nachrichten.1257.de.podcast.xml)

2) "Radio personalities" - I would love if Deezer would not only sign longform exclusive Podcast creators - but also "short form" spoken word, that could be sprinkled into my Flow stream - I think of this as like a radio DJ, I would subscribe to, who would get sprinkled into the flow feed. I assume there will be wildly different preferences among Deezer users, so a lot of people will like no "DJ" at all, some will prefer i.e. more comedy, some more serious - but something like this in combination with relevant news sourced from podcast would make a hyper personal radio station out of flow.

I used to be very happy with the Flow feature in the Android app. It used to serve me a mix of songs I had favourited and unfamiliar songs that the app believed I would like. I found lots and lots of new music that way.

About six months ago the Flow feature changed dramatically. It no longer mixes in any new suggestions. It doesn't even cycle through all my favourite songs. It just plays the same ~40 favourites over and over, even though I have favourited over 600 songs. I am super disappointed! The Discover and Inspired By features aren't anywhere near as good as the old algorithm.

For me it often doesn't work correctly. I don't listen to pop and I always get some pop songs in my Flow. Also I have pop playlists in the recommended playlists.

The Flow is crap. It just plays the same 40 favourited songs over and over. No music discovery, not even all of my over 600 favourited songs.

But then I tried "My music" and "Mix my music". And it's amazing! It plays all of my favourited songs, it plays other songs by the same artists, it plays random songs from my 250 favourited artists (which are not the same artists as when playing my favourited songs), and it HAS MUSIC DISCOVERY, playing good songs by bands I've never heard of.

So my advice to every Deezer user is this: "Ignore the Flow, use Mix My Music".

Thanks Martin for suggestion. You mean "Shuffle My Music"? I cannot find "Mix my music" button anywhere.