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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. 😑

63 replies

Jaime.Deezer
Community Manager
Community Manager
March 13, 2025

Hello ​@eti_erik apologies for the delay. 
Did this happen in mobile, web or desktop app?
Thanks

bluezzbastardzz
Superuser
Superuser
March 23, 2025

See the answers on the first page of this thread: if you searched for the Kate Bush song and then clicked on it in the search, this will automatically generate a Track Mix of 40 tracks which you can only prevent if you send the found track to the play queue with the dropdown menu option instead of directly playing it from the search.

ZZee ya, Hans-Jürgen (Bluezz Bastardzz and Indigo Rocks, live album on Deezer, last.fm/user/hjbardenhagen)
Guitar Hero
March 27, 2025

I’ve already commented on this upthread so I sha’n’t repeat myself. It’s astounding that this hasn’t been fixed.

Does it make it worse that the randomly queued track is always some tenuously related, immersion-shattering nonsense that I have never, ever found myself going, hey, you know, this is actually good? Yes. Is that the point? No.

Give us the choice. Please. Please.

Roadie
May 19, 2025

I just got Deezer because I was so thoroughly frustrated with Amazon’s recent (by “recent” I mean the last two years) changes to their UI that fundamentally broke it.

 

Spent an entire day getting my music library into Deezer.

 

Only to stumble across this “feature”. I use “feature” with the most sarcastic quotation marks possible.

 

If I search a song, and play it, I don’t want to be forced to listen to an algorithmically generated playlist after this. I want to control what I listen to. Children could understand this. How does Deezer not?

 

Even Amazon, which completely broke their app, understands this. The very first option in their settings menu is “Autoplay: Keep listening to similar tracks when your music ends”. It is a checkbox. If you uncheck it, the queue ends when it ends.

 

I cannot fathom how Deezer has ignored their community for over a year begging for a setting that disables this. This is a dealbreaker. I will gladly pitch my efforts in uploading my library into the trash due to this issue alone.

Roadie
May 19, 2025

It gets even worse. Oh My God.

 

If I search for a song to listen to, and click Play, the play queue fills up with random crap after it.

 

If I find a second song to listen to (or a third song, etc, etc), I cannot simply “Add to queue”. Because it is slotted in behind the 40 crap songs I didn’t ask for.

 

And there is no button to clear the queue. Literally no way to do this, aside from clicking a song and generating a new 40-song queue of crap. Even closing the desktop app with task manager and reopening it does not clear the queue.

GropplerZorn
Superuser
Superuser
May 19, 2025

@imalumberjack 

if you want to listen to a song next, click “play next” instead of “add to queue.”

Deezer Legend
Roadie
June 18, 2025

Wow… I came to the forums to find a solution to this exact “feature” and ended up cancelling my sub. This is not the right way to do this.

 

Roadie
June 30, 2025

Currently testing out a “workaround” which is just searching for a song and then removing the other 40 songs I didn’t ask for when they get auto-generated in the queue. This way I can add the songs I actually want in the order that I actually want. This is a bit annoying as I would have to X out 40 songs every time I want to start a queue. 

 

Just using “play next” is really inconvenient if I want to queue up two or three songs in a particular order (you have to add them in reverse order by using “play next”). 

 

Please just given an option to turn off the additional auto-generated queue songs. The reluctance to do so for 3 years is concerning as a new user.

Roadie
July 6, 2025

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.

This feature on Deezer is not a good feature. I create a playlist for an artist I like, then three songs in I get a song from a random different artist. Give us the power to just listen to the playlist we have made !!! 

Guitar Hero
July 17, 2025

I switched to Deezer from Amazon music because I didn’t want to continue to fund Jeff Bezos and his billionaire vanity projects , weddings + space race . Unfortunately after 3 months I’ve cancelled my subscription because of the inability to switch off the auto play / recommended music function . If I pick a song I want to hear then I want hear that song , and not have it followed by a random selection of music I didn’t ask for and have no interest in listening to . This isn’t an unreasonable request , but despite paying customers asking for this function year after year  Deezer chooses to ignore them . 

Goodbye