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One Hit Wonder
March 28, 2022
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How do I disable auto-play of unwanted suggested music?

  • March 28, 2022
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This is making me crazy and it is an absolute deal breaker.  Without a solution to stop playing unwanted music after my selected track the service is just annoying.  Why should I listen to something I don’t want (even if I paid)?  Why someone/something has to choose my music instead of me?

 

I wrote to the support but I was dismissed with something like:  “sit and wait, maybe in the future someone will decide to implement such feature”.  That’s very, very far from acceptable  

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if you connect via browser and open the queue you will see a “Automated Recommendations” button. 

This only works with normal use. As soon as a song is started from the search, you get a mix. Regardless of whether you have activated automatic recommendations or not. 😑

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Yula
Deezer Staff
Deezer Staff
March 30, 2022

Hello @geenzo,

if you connect via browser and open the queue you will see a “Automated Recommendations” button. 

Make sure that’s deactivated. 

Let me know! 

 

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Answer
April 2, 2022

if you connect via browser and open the queue you will see a “Automated Recommendations” button. 

This only works with normal use. As soon as a song is started from the search, you get a mix. Regardless of whether you have activated automatic recommendations or not. 😑

geenzoAuthor
One Hit Wonder
April 4, 2022

if you connect via browser and open the queue you will see a “Automated Recommendations” button. 

This only works with normal use. As soon as a song is started from the search, you get a mix. Regardless of whether you have activated automatic recommendations or not. 😑

That’s correct, it’s exactly the problem I was trying to explain

Guitar Hero
September 30, 2022

It’s not a bonus, it’s a flaw in the app. There is no way to turn it off.  Just sloppy poor programming. If I play a song I DON’T WANT OTHER SONGS PLAYED. I DON’T WANT 100 SONGS ADDED TO THE QUEUE. It’s not helpful, it’s annoying and you should be able to turn it off.  

bluezzbastardzz
Superuser
Superuser
October 1, 2022

Deezer thinks it’s a feature, not a bug. See my related idea where you can still vote:

 

ZZee ya, Hans-Jürgen (Bluezz Bastardzz and Indigo Rocks, live album on Deezer, last.fm/user/hjbardenhagen)
Roadie
July 12, 2023

The problem is still on ! (I connect via browser)

Impossible to play the songs of an artist from the research ! The second song of the queue will automatically be another random song from a mix. This is such a horrible feature ! No way to deactivate it.

...I imagine the developers and project managers around a table deciding this behiviour would be something great, promoting their bad algorithm (or promoting artists I don’t care about).

I will quit Deezer if this issue is not supposed to be fixed.

Leonídia.Deezer
Community Manager
Community Manager
July 14, 2023

Hello @CoSep indeed this is per design and not a problem. I would even say that would be a nice feature to have on mobile, but unfortunately it is not in the planning to develop.

The search bar, allows you to discover that music, artist or album that you don’t know.

When you play a song from their, it always lunch a track mix. 

The workaround, would be to create a playlist just with that song, and therefor, you don’t get recommend tracks afterwards.

Roadie
July 28, 2023

I’m just going to add onto the pile of complaints.  I just switched over to deezer today and I am already annoyed with the queue throwing random songs I do not want at me.

I really hope this function gets an off switch soon otherwise I too will just move on to something else.

Leonídia.Deezer
Community Manager
Community Manager
August 1, 2023

Hello @LedVapour welcome to Deezer. As mentioned in my previous post when you play a song from search you will get always a track mix based on that genre of track. The workaround would be to create a playlist adding the songs you find under search.

In the meantime, we keep collecting more inputs from all our users regarding this and other desired features. Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us.

bluezzbastardzz
Superuser
Superuser
August 1, 2023

As mentioned in my related idea, there is another workaround if you select the found tracks with their checkboxes on the right side and send them all to the play queue directly instead of creating a new playlist. There has to be something in the queue already for this to work, and it cannot be another mix like Flow etc., because that would block the queue.

Also useful is the ability to drag & drop tracks in the play queue, so you can sort them if you want to change their order of playing.

ZZee ya, Hans-Jürgen (Bluezz Bastardzz and Indigo Rocks, live album on Deezer, last.fm/user/hjbardenhagen)