Listening to only one artist' mix

No that I know of. However for some artists 100% playlist is available which is kind of what you are looking for. 

Hi @helenciithafukkyea,
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.

Hi @vladnc, thanks for sharing your experience with us.

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.

Kind of negates having a premium account if you have to do the work yourself and create a playlist based on an artist that you want to listen to. Very disappointing.

​@Leonídia.Deezer , has is been shipped yet ?

​@polar54 Leonidia is no longer with deezer. 

as there are several features discussed in this thread, perhaps you can clarify what you are looking for?

I like the new feature where I can play the songs from an artist that I have favorited. 
 

​@GropplerZorn 
I think the bottom line is, I wish it would be painless to listen to the top tracks of an artist I do not know yet.

So far, my experience has been, a bit mixed. I would get recommended an artist by a friend, upon searching for it. I was proposed to start a mix.
My assumption would be it would start a mix of the artist I specifically searched for … not a random selection of related artist.

And yes I am sure I could create a playlist to listen to all the track of said artist … but honestly … this makes it harder than it needs to be.

If the mix would let say play all of the music from the artist, and then if I am still listening go into related artists it would make sense. But maybe not right off the bat.

Or another button ? Play Artists Music side by side with Mix ?
 

Thanks for your feedback ​@polar54. I’ll pass it to our devs but.
In the meantime, you can check if the artist you want to listen has a 100% playlist or click on top tracks and press play.
Apologies for the inconvenience.

​@Jaime.Deezer No worries. It is pretty cool how responsive you are in there !

Yeah, I would expect that clicking on the “Artist Mix” button will play a mix of exclusively that artist’s discography. I love the discovery aspect of the current state of things, but it’s really not the expected behavior. Having both options would be great: “Artist Mix” - mix from that artist. “Similar Mix” (you gotta name it better :D ) - the current behavior of playing related/similar songs.

P.S. Just came here to second this - glad to see activity 5 days ago :)