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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

Roadie
May 23, 2024

Leonidia. Deezer there shouldn’t need to be a work around . I for one am going to be leaving Deezer in the next month or so as I’ve had enough of this continual random song playing and I’ll be taking my family subscription with me . 

Roadie
June 27, 2024

Thanks everyone for your comments here, which helped me make sense of some weird music being played randomly, even when listening to an album! Absolutely ludicrous. I am super fed up with Spotify so I thought, let's check out deezer. But having read this, no thanks. 

Roadie
September 10, 2024

This autoplay feature needs to be controllable i.e. a choice.  I don’t want it and Deezer seems like it is not going to get it fixed.  I will be going back to Spotify.  Deezer is mainly a good app but the autoplay is now a  deal breaker…..

Roadie
December 6, 2024

Why is this a feature in the first place? It is really annoying. I search a song, play it and get unwanted/unrequested other music following the song i searched for. Why is that? And how can I turn it off?

Roadie
December 10, 2024

I moved over from Spotify after they hiked prices, but this 'feature' is a deal breaker for me. Fed up of getting random music played when all I want is my music. 

Leonídia.Deezer
Community Manager
Community Manager
December 13, 2024

Hi ​@psynoxu , ​@Marco De Leest , ​@skyrat11, ​@holgerg thanks for your posts and apologies that we are not delivering the UX you would like to have when using the search function.

Deezer intends to promote discovery of tracks with similar genre so every time you search a track, when you hit play, you get those recomendations “Track Mix”

But I understand your point of view, and I just shared with developers those last 4 feedbacks.

Just can say, fingers cross that your feedbacks are heard and a feature can be built in the future.

Roadie
December 13, 2024

That's nice to hear, but I am not waiting until it may change. I cancelled my subscription and switched to Qobuz.  

Roadie
January 23, 2025

I'm new to Deezer, coming over from that other service which I really wanted to quit. And now I'm quite astonished to find out about this "feature" and that it can't be turned off. I'm very sorry folks, but a really basic thing like *listening to one song at a time* in a music streaming app is definitely nothing I want to find workarounds for or wait for it to become a "new exciting feature" — goodness! 

I really wanted to give it a try and get familiar with Deezer, but I also have a strong aversion to services who are smug enough to believe that they know better what I want than I do myself. So I'm afraid this is a dealbreaker for me.

Roadie
February 3, 2025

I was trying to listen to Grammy nominees and I'd start one then search the next and hit "add to queue." But then the next one wouldn't play because it was added behind all of Deezer's automatic suggestions. This makes it HARDER for me to discover new music, not easier. At this point I usually listen to a song on YouTube the first time and deal with their ads and then if I like it I add it to a playlist in Deezer. Not a great experience since it takes me out of the app. I understand the perspective of wanting people to discover new music, but different people are open to discovering new things at different times, and there are a lot of users who don't want to do that when searching a song. I would much rather get to hear all the different covers of a song returned by a search and discover new artist that way.

Roadie
February 17, 2025

I turned Automated Recommendations off, but after playing a Kate Bush song Deezer continued and gave me a Chris Martin song. Which I definitely never clicked on and do not want to hear.

I went to Queue (a feature that I do not use) and found a list of 40 songs in my queue. How did they get there? I really only wantto hear the songs / albums that I actively click on. Nothing else. How do I do that?