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I just took a premium subscription. Up till now, my method has been the following : I look for a specific piece I wish to hear, and I press play. 

 

When Deezer started playing things I had not requested, I went to “Queue” (I was actually alarmed there would be queue), found a button called Turn off auto-recommendations, and did that.

 

A few hours later, Deezer is back to proposing I listen to pieces I had never selected.

 

Is there a method that allows me to say : Never play anything I haven’t specifically instructed you to play ?

How bad is this, you ask ?

 

Well, I have just been listening to the first movement Dinu Lipati’s first Chopin concerto. Now, assuming something just had to happen automatically, wouldn’t you expect that to be the *second movement* of the same concerto ? I know I did. And yet here I am listening to a recently released piano remix based on Wagner. 

Disabling automatic recommendations in the play queue only prevents playing similar music after you  have been listening to a full album or playlist.

Your example with a Chopin performance sounds like you used the search first, then clicked on Play for the found track which will also generate an automatic track mix with similar music then. This behaviour is regarded as a feature, not a bug by the Deezer staff and was introduced in the desktop app and web player  about a year ago. See my idea to make this an option, not mandatory:

No automatic track "mixes" in search results playback, make it an option. | Deezer Community, bringing music lovers together

 

Hey, thanks, very helpful. Considering revoking my subscription as I find the feature offensive.

 

Only solution I could think of is to curate my own tracks and make them so long that there is no time for Deezer to chime in. Can that work ? I have not tried yet to create my own tracks.

You cannot create your own tracks on Deezer unless you are an artist who can tell their distributor to upload their new release to Deezer - or maybe I am misunderstanding you.

I described a workaround for this mandatory track mix when finding one or more tracks with the search in my idea, I think. You can pick the tracks in the search result with their checkboxes on the right and send them directly to the play queue with the 3-dot dropdown menu. There you can sort their playing order with dragging & dropping them. Note that this only works if there is not another automatic mix in the play queue already like Flow etc.

Searching for “Lipati Chopin concerto” you will only find complete albums though combined e.g. with the Grieg concerto, not the single tracks, so choosing and sending them to the play queue would not work in this case:

https://www.deezer.com/search/lipati%20chopin%20concerto/album

 

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