I miss going to an artist profile and clicking on the button TO ONLY listen to songs by them, I think that was something that Deezer allowed years ago. Now we have the ‘play a mix’ in each artist but obvs the mix is not a mix of solely their music but with other artists of similar genre. Is there a way to only play one artists music (in shuffle) that is not going straight to their ‘top tracks’?
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Listening to only one artist' mix
Best answer by GropplerZorn
hey there
I agree with the “top tracks” issue and I’ve never found a streaming service that doesn’t sort and/or favor by popular.
Creating playlists is so easy that I find myself making artist playlists by simply adding all their albums (which can be a few or many). I get all the deep cuts and find that it’s an excellent tool for music discovery, even for an artist I thought I was familiar with.
That way I can just hit shuffle and away I go. It also gives me some editing capabilities. For example, I made a comprehensive Josh Groban playlist, but I didn’t add any of his Christmas music.
It’s a little more work, but I find it’s worth it.
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No that I know of. However for some artists 100% playlist is available which is kind of what you are looking for.
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hey there
I agree with the “top tracks” issue and I’ve never found a streaming service that doesn’t sort and/or favor by popular.
Creating playlists is so easy that I find myself making artist playlists by simply adding all their albums (which can be a few or many). I get all the deep cuts and find that it’s an excellent tool for music discovery, even for an artist I thought I was familiar with.
That way I can just hit shuffle and away I go. It also gives me some editing capabilities. For example, I made a comprehensive Josh Groban playlist, but I didn’t add any of his Christmas music.
It’s a little more work, but I find it’s worth it.
G
G
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+6Hi
Unfortunately, isn’t possible to play the whole discography of an artists. Only the “Top Tracks” are available as you mentioned.
But I can suggest a workaround, that would be to create a playlist with all discography of an artist you want. That way you can even organize it in the way you most like.
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Leonídia.Deezer wrote:
Hi
Unfortunately, isn’t possible to play the whole discography of an artists. Only the “Top Tracks” are available as you mentioned.
But I can suggest a workaround, that would be to create a playlist with all discography of an artist you want. That way you can even organize it in the way you most like.
Is that a licensing issue or you just don’t think this feature is worth implementing?
The current behavior is so bad that I’m not even certain it’s not a result of some bugs. For example, when I start a mix based on an artist it starts by alternating 3 tracks from that artist with other tracks, which is acceptable:
The problem is that, based on what I’ve seen so far, after those initial 3 tracks of the chosen artist, there will be 0 (zero) more tracks from that artist. The rest is basically just a mix of anything but the chosen artist, which exactly the opposite of what a reasonable person would expect, and it makes the entire mix feature useless, at least for me.
So, assuming this is a bug and not the intended behavior, any plans to fix this?
Update: after a sequence of 63 songs by other artists it seems it finally started the cycle again and started including Taylor Swift songs. So basically a cycle is 68 songs long, and during a cycle you get 3 songs by the selected artist at the beginning (1st, 3rd and 5th song) and 65 songs by other artists. Basically only 4.4% of the songs are the selected artist.
And within those 63 songs by other artists the selected artist doesn’t seem to even get a chance to be selected randomly anymore.
The algorithm seems to be to chose a random artist with similar style, the more similar the style the more likely they are to be chosen. And if the artist has been chosen 3 times within a 68 song cycle they are then excluded from further play. 8 other artists reached that limit, so they also achieved the same 4.4% as the the artist I selected within that cycle.
So, based on this, it seems this behavior is by design. Honestly, I’m not happy with it. I would expect the selected artist to have a higher chance to be chosen than all other artists from the rotation, something like at least 10%, instead of the 4.4% we get now with the 3 per 68 songs limit. And it wouldn’t hurt for their songs to be more evenly distributed, because now they are grouped together at the beginning of each cycle.
+6Hi
After passing your information to our developers it was mentioned that a change is ongoing with this Mix feature that soon will play the Top tracks of the artists.
Hope that you will enjoy this new feature.
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