Improve mixes on Deezer

  • 16 December 2019
  • 10 replies
  • 153 views

Userlevel 1

Compared with spotify the mixes for me are terrible.

This is the one thing that makes me consdier going back to spotify or trying another music service. This is the one thing that stops me reccomending to friends and family and stops me from getting a family plan.
 

My flow will play 1 Jazz song then play a pop/punk song then a lofi song. I like all these genres but I dont want to hear them all in the same mix.

When I listen to the other mixes I feel like I listen to the same songs every time I click on them.

The mixes will often play the same song in one session of listening to the mix this usually happens after an hour or so.

They will often include songs by the same artist for example 1 mix i had 3 songs by the same artist in 6 songs.

If I wanted to listen to that artist I would put that artist on and if i hear a song and think "i want to listen to more of that artist I can click and start palying that artist.

Addition of the ban artist and don't reccomend this song is very welcome but it doesn't seem to work very well. If the ban artist the track isn't automatically skipped. It doesnt seem to learn very well either. For example: if I ban Jay-z unless kayne west is one of my fav artists it should lower the likelyhood of kayne west appearing in any mix or completely remove them from any mix.


10 replies

Userlevel 7
Badge +7

Hi there @mmmcheese 

Thank you for your feedback. I'll be passing it on to our Recommendations Team.

In the meantime, can you see a frowny face button when listening to your mixes? You can try change the mood (genre) to see if the experience improves or suits your needs a bit better. Happy to hear your feedback about it too :wink:

Userlevel 4
Badge +1

Hi there @mmmcheese 

Thank you for your feedback. I'll be passing it on to our Recommendations Team.

In the meantime, can you see a frowny face button when listening to your mixes? You can try change the mood (genre) to see if the experience improves or suits your needs a bit better. Happy to hear your feedback about it too :wink:

 

This is one terrible example of how that algorithm works… started with a not well know stoner rock band and the 4 following suggestions were reggaeton!!

Userlevel 7
Badge +7

Thanks for the examples @Felipe.Toral I've replied to you on another topic and have passed your feedback on to the relevant teams here at Deezer :wink:

Userlevel 7
Badge +3

I tried the theme mixes for the first time and it's pretty disappointing for me. I tried the Soul mix and there is also a disco and for example a house version of a soul song. I tried a mix of  RnB and there's a rap..

Userlevel 3
Badge +2

 seems like a duplicate of this, and I’ll post here my case.

I really like this track: https://deezer.page.link/VcAdHrZ5uuwgV9sNA

And I’ve launched a mix by it, but it’s… terrible. Too many some reggae vibes and too low d’n’b vibes:

 

On Spotify it looks a way better and more relevant (I know and like almost every suggested artist):

 

Userlevel 7
Badge +6

Sorry to hear that.

I mean yes some mixes are indeed poor, but that’s better than no mixes at all…

Well I can say that Deezer is working around this year to make mixes work better. They want to make suggestions work not only on home page, but in apps general including that mixes my friend.

Please stay for a while to see it yourself.

Userlevel 7
Badge +7

We've left Mixes aside for a while now @AlexWayfer @Placido09 but rest assured our teams know it needs improvement so they're now investigating the best way to move forward. Your comments are very welcome!

Userlevel 2
Badge

I just did an artists mix and the first songs were: A,B,C,C,B,D,E,A. It had 3 repetitions in the first 8 songs. (Repetitions were the exact same songs, same album, same title)

Also after these 7 songs the songs really deviated from the artists mix I started. Pressing next didn't gave me any songs from the first artists.

Please fix this.

Userlevel 7
Badge +10

I just did an artists mix and the first songs were: A,B,C,C,B,D,E,A. It had 3 repetitions in the first 8 songs. (Repetitions were the exact same songs, same album, same title)

Also after these 7 songs the songs really deviated from the artists mix I started. Pressing next didn't gave me any songs from the first artists.

Please fix this.

That’s really unfortunate, sorry about that! 

We are working on improving this experience :) 

Userlevel 2
Badge

I just did an artists mix and the first songs were: A,B,C,C,B,D,E,A. It had 3 repetitions in the first 8 songs. (Repetitions were the exact same songs, same album, same title)

Also after these 7 songs the songs really deviated from the artists mix I started. Pressing next didn't gave me any songs from the first artists.

Please fix this.

That’s really unfortunate, sorry about that! 

We are working on improving this experience :) 

I continued playing and I got 92 tracks that were not made by the artist of the mix. Number 93 was of the artist, but it was the same as song number 6. Well atleast it wasn't a triple repetition :D

Reply