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Friday New Releases are a mess

  • 8 January 2024
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I’ve noticed that the Friday new releases page may have one or two artists I am interested in but the rest are either artists that have the same name as some I have listened to before (not enough to be favorites - but that’s another issue) or are artists I don’t know - and it’s always the same names!  See image below for an example from today: Sprints is an artist I would be interested in their new releases, 999 is an artist I have listened to occasionally and added their songs to a playlists etc, so that’s fine, I guess.  Every single other one after that are artists with the same name as artists I like, but are all the wrong artists!  Every single one!  The “new releases for you” on the main Deezer page is far more accurate (not perfect, but way better) - why are these two sections so different?  I rarely use Spotify, but when I look at their Friday new release list, it has some artists I have saved as favorites and others that at least sound like those bands. 

 

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awesomemac
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I haven’t seen the Friday releases for quite some time. But from what I know, I agree with you. I had the same experience, from all the songs maybe 1 or 2 are music I would listen to.

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To top it off, I’ve enabled the notifications about new releases from artists I follow, Deezer misses like 50% of them. Just skips the releases randomly. Like how hard can it be to feed us the new stuff from artists we’ve explicitly followed?

Leonídia.Deezer
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Hi @PotatoOverlord, thank you for sharing your feedback.

I have forwarded it to our development team.

Your input is highly valued, and we appreciate your contribution.

AnyOldName3
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This has been a problem for years, and every time I’ve looked at the forum to see if there’s been any progress, I find it’s all small threads with a couple of responses, and then someone saying it’s been forwarded to the development team. I’m beginning to think this is tracked internally as lots of separate problems that only affect a couple of people, and fixing it is therefore deprioritised, instead of aggregating the separate reports into a single widespread issue that needs to be dealt with.

Most of the songs I see that shouldn’t be there have the correct artist assigned (although sometimes they don’t), so it’s not solely a data entry issue. Without having seen Deezer’s internal source code, I think it’s a pretty safe bet that whatever system’s generating the playlists is comparing/querying artists by name, instead of by unique ID, and that seems like something that should be trivial to fix once someone’s actually told to do so.

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