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How can I disable recommendations based on country (local suggestions)?

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Hello, I live outside of my home country and don't enjoy at all locals taste for music / local music / trends and the local music charts. Is there a way to configure Deezer to show / suggest and play only music of my taste, music inside the style already flagged by me?
I was listening a very immersive album and usually Deezer keeps on with the same style after the last track, but not this time (and some others). Some local terrible music started playing and completely ruined all that experience.
I had already tried to use foreign proxies / VPNs but my account seems to be glued to my geographical location, maybe coz my credit card billing address. Can this be fixed / changed? I'm almost giving up with Deezer and trying some alternatives. I already pay for Pandora that works fine but doesn't let me listen to an entire album like Deezer does.
I really appreciate your help.
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Best answer by musicpresident 12 October 2020, 21:20

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I understand your frustration with Deezer's music suggestions not aligning with your taste and being impacted by your geographical location. While I can't provide real-time support or fix the issue directly, I can offer some suggestions that might help improve your music experience on Deezer:

  1. Create Custom Playlists: Consider creating your own playlists based on your preferred music style and add tracks that you enjoy. This way, you can listen to music tailored to your taste without relying solely on Deezer's algorithm.

  2. Use Deezer's "Flow" Feature: Deezer has a feature called "Flow," which is a personalized playlist based on your listening history. By using this feature regularly, you may get better music recommendations aligned with your preferences.

  3. Like and Dislike Tracks: Whenever you listen to music on Deezer, use the "Like" and "Dislike" buttons to signal your preferences. This will help Deezer's algorithm learn your taste and adjust future suggestions accordingly.

  4. Explore User-Curated Playlists: Browse through playlists created by other users who share similar music tastes. You can often find great music recommendations this way.

  5. Contact Deezer Support: Reach out to Deezer's customer support and explain the issue you are facing with the music suggestions. They might be able to offer some solutions or insights.

  6. Check for Proximity Settings: Sometimes, music services may use your device's GPS or IP address to determine your location. Make sure your device's location settings are accurate and not conflicting with your desired location.

  7. Consider Creating a New Account: If the issue is indeed tied to your credit card's billing address, you might consider creating a new Deezer account with a different payment method that aligns with your preferred location.

  8. Try Deezer Premium: Deezer Premium offers enhanced features, including the ability to skip tracks, listen offline, and have better control over your listening experience. Upgrading to a premium account might offer you more personalized options.

Remember that music preferences are subjective, and while music services like Deezer strive to provide personalized recommendations, they may not always be perfect. Exploring multiple platforms and services might be necessary to find the one that suits your preferences best.

Yula
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I do not want to listen location based music!  I click hundreds of local artists to “do not recommend list”  and still your alco do not get the hint. I do not want to change to other location, because I have no idea which location has same music taste that I have. FLAC and yearly plan would have been reason to be here, but your recommendations are useless and the other has now good recommendations .

 

You can do that with our country selector! 

 https://support.deezer.com/hc/en-gb/articles/360012847878-Change-Your-Country-Recommendations-On-Deezer

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I do not want to listen location based music!  I click hundreds of local artists to “do not recommend list”  and still your alco do not get the hint. I do not want to change to other location, because I have no idea which location has same music taste that I have. FLAC and yearly plan would have been reason to be here, but your recommendations are useless and the other has now good recommendations .

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Hi Anja, thanks for replying.
I have thousands of tracks, artists and albums flagged as favorites in a very specific style so I don't think my account lacks this information. Maybe it’s a bug or a momentary problem, Anyway, it's quite annoying when it happens. I keep clicking the "x" when I dislike something that is playing but sometimes a group of
5 or 6 songs keeps playing in a loop no matter how many times I click on the "x" for those songs.
Hope this can be fixed...
Thanks!

Looks like this issue is still there. I just started using the app and, even if I have a lot of artist liked, I’m still getting mainstream garbage thrown at me every time a song finishes. 

The problem is real.

I’ve tried all streaming apps and Deezer is in the middle when it comes to recommendations.

The main problem with Deezer, is that their algorithm just isn’t working right. You get trackmix opened when cooking salty fish and spaghetti, and you need to run in same second to change the trackmix as it may not play music related to it and start with charts. When you find good trackmix, they play in a loop same mauybe 25-30 tracks so you have music only for an hour, sometimes twice as much.

Weakest point is main page. When they do have 1-2 rows personalised with daily and lately played.

It’s not enough.
I use now different app and I do like their way. Obviously can not post screenshots.

It may be considered recommending them etc.

However what they do, they have constantly personal rows all over the main page.

It keeps me basically living in the app.

When I come back to deezer, I don’t have the same interactions as they don’t have tools for it.

As you said, we don’t need charts, when there’s ton of our data what we consume and how we want to be consumed. Personally I don’t want to pay a dime with attention to charts, we have radio.

I hope it can be changed.

Jaime.
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Hey @SPK please check the following article and give it a try: https://support.deezer.com/hc/en-gb/articles/360012847878-Changing-your-country-recommendations-on-Deezer
Let me know if that works for you :nerd:
Thanks 

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Hi Anja, thanks for replying.
I have thousands of tracks, artists and albums flagged as favorites in a very specific style so I don't think my account lacks this information. Maybe it’s a bug or a momentary problem, Anyway, it's quite annoying when it happens. I keep clicking the "x" when I dislike something that is playing but sometimes a group of
5 or 6 songs keeps playing in a loop no matter how many times I click on the "x" for those songs.
Hope this can be fixed...
Thanks!

Looks like this issue is still there. I just started using the app and, even if I have a lot of artist liked, I’m still getting mainstream garbage thrown at me every time a song finishes. 

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you can change your country in account settings. This will change your “music” page . you need to close and reopen the app/website to see the effect

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Sad to see that nothing has changed 2 years later after the OP remark regarding playlist suggestions based on your geolocalisation…

Why is it so hard for Deezer to let us choose playlist suggestions for whatever kind of music style based on the country that we want instead of the one where we live?

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Hello @Yevsh, thank you for the feedback, we’ll forward it to our teams.

Thank you for trying out Deezer :slight_smile:

https://www.deezer.com/en/profile/3421485864
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Hi @Noora thank you for contacting us regarding this matter. 

Please bear in mind that the recommendations on the Deezer start page are not tailored to your taste of music. Only the sections “Made for you” and “Recommended releases” are tailored to your taste. Everything else is popular music of the country you are at. In case you do not like these please use other ways to discover new music, i.e. Flow, Discovery playlist, artist mix of your favourite artists, track mix of your favourite tracks etc. :wink:

It won’t be possible to have no recommendations of any location on the Deezer start page but our product managers are working hard on a project which will enable to change location to a Deezer country of your choice :slight_smile: Just patience is needed until this is realised. 

Apologies for any inconvenience caused. 


I am new user of Deezer, and this is the only annoying feature that bothers me a lot!

I am getting recommended lists only from my country.

For example, I want to see the most popular list (by number of fans) - worldwide.

 

The only reason I am using Deezer is FLAC.

 

Pia.Deezer
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Hi @Wall Tearer yes, I do understand that you want to ignore German Rap or Schlager because I am experiencing the same with my German Deezer account. We are forwarding your feedback to our product managers and they are giving their best to give you a more and more tailored-to-your-taste music experience. 

Please bear in mind that there are many other ways to discover new music, i.e. Flow, Discovery playlist, recommended releases, artist mix of your favourite artists, track mix of your favourite tracks etc. There are many ways to find treasures :wink:

Pia.Deezer
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Hello @blendkrasniqi thank you for outlining this further. We are sorry, there is no fixed expected date of implementation yet but I promise that we keep you updated on that :slight_smile:

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Though I live in Germany, I couldn’t care less about German rap (and about rap at all). It would have been really helpful to disable recommendations of genres that user doesn’t like.

Even if you show me 100500 times a recommendation with German rap or Schlager I won’t click on it anyways, so you’re just wasting your resources. From the business perspective it would have been much more reasonable to present the customer recommendations that would be interesting to him on which he will actually click.

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Hi @Noora thank you for contacting us regarding this matter. 

Please bear in mind that the recommendations on the Deezer start page are not tailored to your taste of music. Only the sections “Made for you” and “Recommended releases” are tailored to your taste. Everything else is popular music of the country you are at. In case you do not like these please use other ways to discover new music, i.e. Flow, Discovery playlist, artist mix of your favourite artists, track mix of your favourite tracks etc. :wink:

It won’t be possible to have no recommendations of any location on the Deezer start page but our product managers are working hard on a project which will enable to change location to a Deezer country of your choice :slight_smile: Just patience is needed until this is realised. 

Apologies for any inconvenience caused. 

The option to change location to another deezer country is a MUST. Do you have any ETA? I keep getting suggestions from nearby countries on different languages which I don’t even know. And I don’t like local music at all. I prefer all English playlists/songs and I know i’m not the only one.

Pia.Deezer
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Hi @Noora thank you for contacting us regarding this matter. 

Please bear in mind that the recommendations on the Deezer start page are not tailored to your taste of music. Only the sections “Made for you” and “Recommended releases” are tailored to your taste. Everything else is popular music of the country you are at. In case you do not like these please use other ways to discover new music, i.e. Flow, Discovery playlist, artist mix of your favourite artists, track mix of your favourite tracks etc. :wink:

It won’t be possible to have no recommendations of any location on the Deezer start page but our product managers are working hard on a project which will enable to change location to a Deezer country of your choice :slight_smile: Just patience is needed until this is realised. 

Apologies for any inconvenience caused. 

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Hi, I've registered Deezer Family since 2017. 

 

I'm living in Saudi Arabia, yet I don't want to get recommendations of Arabic music on FLOW, Playlists, lists names  now in Arabic!! . It's like spamming!! 

Just add an option to (not to recommend songs based on region) please, and you can still keep songs copyrighs based on region. 

 

If I want Arabic music I would've subscribed to a local platform, and I don't want to keep skipping Arabic songs from recommendations while working!! 

 

Thank you. 

 

Rudi
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Hi there @CodeFips 

Thank you for reporting this to us. I'll be forwarding your comments to our Recommendations Team. In the meantime, please check this topic here for some tips on Flow, for example :wink:

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The last entry is 8 months old. It seems that this problem has never been solved. I have entered 140 artists and some tens of favorites. I like to listen to Fusion or Nu-Jazz. So my preference should be clear now. And I'm constantly being suggested Frank Sinatra and Armstrong.  Makes me want to puke.  Now I just start the albums I like. I used to listen to AccuJazz. There are only automatic channels, but the selection was great, unfortunately AccuJazz doesn't have a subscription without advertising.

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Please give users an option to disable location based suggestions, it is really annoying I get suggestions based on country where I am using the app, what if I dont like any of the songs? I don't like any of the songs but you keep suggesting them, why?Please give us an option.
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It shouldn't be hard to implement option to disable suggestions based on location!

I see there are lots of really great suggestions and ideas on this forum, but nothing was implemented.
What are your devs doing all day at their work places? Moving buttons on the design from left to right or playing with NERF guns?
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I hate local songs. Always dislike them when i listen to them.
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This! The reason I don't bother at all with these online entertainment services is that they push so much shite generated by some loosely averaged profiling and as it was pointed out, you need to be more active using the service to fight back that flow of dumb in order to keep your recommendations to your tastes, something that's actually very integral part of their business models, to trick the users to come back over and over again by gaming their heads with something users are urged to block. So sickening business and not at all in any good way. #deleteinternet

Unfortunately just like you sad, it's a business aimed to the majority of listeners that doesn't know the difference between a major and minor key. Mainstream. End of the game. Spotify seems to be winning this battle, at least doesn't have the 2K limit for the favorite tracks list that it seems to be the seed for a good suggestion. Actually, with only a few hundred tracks added as favorites spotify is doing a much better job on suggesting new stuff. No bullshit!
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This! The reason I don't bother at all with these online entertainment services is that they push so much shite generated by some loosely averaged profiling and as it was pointed out, you need to be more active using the service to fight back that flow of dumb in order to keep your recommendations to your tastes, something that's actually very integral part of their business models, to trick the users to come back over and over again by gaming their heads with something users are urged to block. So sickening business and not at all in any good way. #deleteinternet
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We need more customization and the ability to choose or exclude music from region or languages !
There is absolutely 0 possibility of customization in Deezer that's really bad...
Rudi
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Hey @Johny.Su

Thanks for your feedback, I've moved it here, so that you can vote for the idea. If you don't use VPNs, you'd only get recommendations from the country of subscription purchase.

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