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Flow sometimes plays already saved songs with "I want more discoveries" turned on

  • December 28, 2025
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deezer.unethical532
Guitar Hero

Around in December I have noticed that Flow gave already saved songs on every 2nd-3rd song despite using the “more discoveries” option. For context I was always on the discovery preferring option before these multiple months and I didn’t notice playing familiar songs back then, or definitely not as much as it does currently.

My listening style:

  • Liked songs are saved into one or more of playlists, which are separated by genres / vibes
  • I barely favorite / heart songs, that category goes for the “top 10% quality’ songs for me basically

Do I need to change my favoriting style in order to fix Flow?

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awesomemac
Superuser
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  • Superuser
  • December 31, 2025

Does anyone here in the Community uses Flow like ​@deezer.unethical532 does? And are you having the same issues?


deezer.unethical532
Guitar Hero

Does anyone here in the Community uses Flow like ​@deezer.unethical532 does? And are you having the same issues?

Sorry for the late reply, but does that mean favoriting all the songs in my playlists should be the go-to move to do in order to make Flow show me new / unheard songs?

 
 

 

 


Jaime.Deezer
Community Manager
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  • Community Manager
  • January 17, 2026

@deezer.unethical532 on discovery mode Flow reduces the favorites and embark on a journey of discover.
Flow will play songs based on different factors as top charts, region, etc. Also your favorites and music from your playlists. The more you listen flow, the more it adapts to the music that you like. The same songs will be played more or less until you change your habits, so please try to add some new albums into your library and few new favorites and maybe some more likes on new/other bands.
I hope that helps.
Thanks 


Mr. Jahrami
Hitmaker
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  • Hitmaker
  • January 17, 2026

For me as well, when I toggle to More Discoveries, it still plays songs I already know and have in my playlists. This started happening recently. Previously, it only played unheard songs, but that is no longer the case.


BigFKahuna
Hitmaker
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  • Hitmaker
  • January 17, 2026

As well for me, when I select “Discovery” on flow I seem to get over 50% content already in my playlists. And yes, I have “More Discoveries” toggled on.


deezer.unethical532
Guitar Hero

@Jaime.Deezer Thank you for the suggestions, however I explicitly use Flow with the “More Discoveries” option to find new songs. Would you say that listening to random playlists is the better option to discover underrated / unknown songs, because every 2nd song is either a saved song or a familiar song that I didn’t save, and this isn’t Flow’s purpose (aka. Discover Weekly alternative)? 

On another note to other readers, I have decided to add all my playlist songs into the Favorites and it didn’t improve this over familiarity issue, but using a different preset like “Party” mode for example seemed to give a bit more unknown songs to me.