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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
  • 63 replies
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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. 😑

63 replies

Guitar Hero
September 5, 2023

It amazes me this is still happening. you want the app to work a certain way, fine, make the option to turn this behaviour off hard to find or whatever. But don’t make it impossible.

 

Please please please please please add an option to allow playing of single tracks from search, with no autoplay mix queue whatever nonsense. Please.

Leonídia.Deezer
Community Manager
Community Manager
September 8, 2023

Hello @bluezzbastardzz  thanks for sharing this workaround.

Leonídia.Deezer
Community Manager
Community Manager
September 8, 2023

Hi @morningoil thanks for your message.

I have shared your comment with the developers, so everybody is aware this a recurrent topic here in the community.

Right now, there isn’t any new feature in the road map for on this topic, but we all hope 2024 brings new exciting features.

Roadie
September 16, 2023

I second @morningoil 100%. And this feature should definitely be in the roadmap. Whoever makes the decisions at Deezer must know it would make so many users happy. And I’m sure they’re also smart enough to understand that it will make a lot of people unhappy and helpless when they can’t have control over their listening experience even if they pay for the service.

Unfortunately, like with most streaming services, these decisions are made based on other factors than the user experience. We, who use these services, do see this. As a software developer I know that features like this are super easy to implement, IF someone just says they should be implemented. So this is not sloppy programming, if someone is still wondering. Of course there can still be bugs, like if there’s a checkbox, but checking it won’t make anything happen.

Please be the first service to show that you respect the user. Respect comes exactly from things like these. Give us a feeling of power over our listening experience. That way we will listen more, not less.

Roadie
October 8, 2023

Leonida.Deezer, you say that the only workaround to the bloody mixes is to create a playlist. I've done that, the one is over 430 songs long, it's all one artist and then less than 6 covers done by a few other artists, so I know exactly who and what should be played when I choose that list, but yet I'm still getting other songs thrown in. I'd get it if it was like under a dozen songs and there were suggestions, how many freaking songs does it take to not get the godforsaken mixes to engage?!?! Y'all really need to make a toggle to turn the mixes on and off, even if it's for the whole account. I left deezer a while back because of this for my old Spotify account and this honestly will probably drive me away again. 

Jaime.Deezer
Community Manager
Community Manager
October 11, 2023

Thanks for your feedback and understanding @BB_Roll. Of course I would love to have good news always.
I hope we can provide a better UX in the short term regarding this issue, but as mentioned above there’s no ETA at the moment.
Apologies for the inconvenience and we really appreciate your support and patience.
 

Roadie
October 30, 2023

If this isn’t fixed within a month I’ll stop my subscription. I might come back if you fix it.

I chose Deezer over other platforms because it seemed it was a platform for music, where artists and listeners are respected. No push notifications for podcasts. Focus on albums by artists played for the listeners as the artist intended and the listener sought out.

But this algorithm-driven autoplay ruins it all. It’s not a minor thing. It makes me feel you don’t care about artists and listeners at all. Listening to a song is like enjoying a painting. The silence after the song is important, just as the empty space on the walls between museum paintings 
 

The last thing I want after sinking in to a song I chose is some other random song chosen by nobody. Playlists and mixes should be an option, never the default.

 

The default should be albums by artists, and songs by artists. Make Deezer a music-centric, artist-centric platform. Not an algorithmic playlist platform treating music like background lighting. 

Nina Nebo
Superuser
Superuser
October 31, 2023

Hi all !

 

@bluezzbastardzz is say about that above , but I was decide make topic with screenshots  :

How play Top Tracks of one Artist with and without Queue 

 

💜🎧 | Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat | 🎶💜
Roadie
March 27, 2024

SOLVED: I found a way around this problem. Create a playlist with any song, just one. Name it 123 so it appears at the top of your playlists. Click on that playlist and start the song. Then go inmediately to search a song you want to hear and select Add Next in Queue. You can now browse songs and add them to queue as you wish. If you dont have repeat on, it will just stop after the last song on you list. Once you close the playlist, the songs added to the queue dissapear from that playlist. 

This is also usefull at parties when people get their turn to add a song to the list!

It is a a bit of a nuisence to do this, but it works. Hopefully Deezer will have the option to turn off the automatic song selection or many users will migrate to Spotify… At least their equalizer on the app is readily available… in Spotify it takes like 5 moves to get to the equalizer and the layout is horrible... 

Leonídia.Deezer
Community Manager
Community Manager
March 28, 2024

Hi @Alexander Leland, thank you so much for sharing this workaround!

It's great to see the community coming together to find solutions.

Your detailed instructions will definitely help others facing the same issue.

Much appreciated!