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

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
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.

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Martin R

Guitar Hero

I'm sure you're right, Tibor. I'm using the Swedish version of the app.

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RoobyDoobie

Rising Star

HI
New user here (still in the free trial period) and still getting accustomed to the idea of not having a "library" outside of a Favourites playlist.
I've always used a library, since the days of WinAmp, then iTunes, and got very used to 5-star rating systems. I regularly jump ship between Apple, Google, Spotify and Tidal. Streaming services are, by necessity, very basic and linear in their approach to liking music - while I'm disinclined to "favourite" every song I don't hate. It would be nice to have at least a 2-stage approval system (as well as the Dislike option), so users can confirm "yes, you're on the right track with this music" without adding it to a very limited 'Favourite" selection.

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Sveos

Hitmaker

It repeats the same songs way too often. Or, at least it used to to that.

Now, since about a week or so, it's terrible for some reason and has started playing so many songs I don't like at all, so I keep clicking dislike, dislike, dislike, but to no avail.

Can I reset Flow somehow?

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RoobyDoobie

Rising Star

The repetition everyone mentions is very real. Just certain tracks.

Definitely feels like I'm being pushed to like some songs i normally wouldn't. Is the algorithm biased toward some better paying labels?

Noam Asulin

Bezi since 2017

I don't know why but FLOW is a lot better lately . I have get songs I didn't listen to before and the songs picked from my favorites seems to be such I didn't listen to for a while . Some improvements ? Hope so

(He/Him) .Please be aware I'm not Deezer employee. I'm a proud Musicholic !

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Buckie

Hitmaker

Flow could be good but it's

unpredictable (can't know what genre it's going to pick next)
uncontrollable (I may not want loud music in the evenings for example)
basically the only way to discover new music which makes people upset since everyone would expect Flow to do everything.

I personally would like Deezer to seriously expand on recommendations and at least get up to par with Spotify in that regard which has multitude of various options. At the moment those recommendations are non-existent, we basically have to hunt for new music elsewhere. After we're finished with exploring recommended albums, playlists, etc, we can let Flow do its thing, but not before.

Noam Asulin

Bezi since 2017

Flow could be good but it's

unpredictable (can't know what genre it's going to pick next)
uncontrollable (I may not want loud music in the evenings for example)
basically the only way to discover new music which makes people upset since everyone would expect Flow to do everything.

I personally would like Deezer to seriously expand on recommendations and at least get up to par with Spotify in that regard which has multitude of various options. At the moment those recommendations are non-existent, we basically have to hunt for new music elsewhere. After we're finished with exploring recommended albums, playlists, etc, we can let Flow do its thing, but not before.

FLOW Needs to be unpredictable . This is how it works . It picks music from various genres for you to listen to ...
Indeed you can't control which type of music you get with FLOW but if you want specific songs type , like quiets songs , you can pick one of the mixes available which are more genre/mood related.
Agree with the rest . Indeed Spotify has a lot to offer in terms of discover new music and I do missing this with Deezer .

(He/Him) .Please be aware I'm not Deezer employee. I'm a proud Musicholic !

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Buckie

Hitmaker

No it doesn't need to be unpredictable. It must "flow" though, so if it absolutely must go from Chihei Hatakeyama to Krewella, it must take at least 15 tracks, not in an instant.

But the point was that it must flow with my current mood, not the other way around.

The mixes are all premixed and I don't want to listen to somebody else's idea of 'quiet music' which only rarely changes.

Noam Asulin

Bezi since 2017

Just want to say I think FLOW improved A LOT in the last month or so . Finally I get to know new artists and the favorites pick is much wider .

(He/Him) .Please be aware I'm not Deezer employee. I'm a proud Musicholic !