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Repetitive "Shuffle my music" // keeps playing the same songs

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January 17, 2018
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I used to use FLOW all the time, but it played the same music over and over, sometimes one song would play twice in 15 minutes. When I recently discovered "Shuffle My Music" I was happy because I could see what was going to be played and it wouldn't repeat anything (at least not for the 50 songs of the playlist). However, "Shuffle My Music" still suffers from issues FLOW had, namely only playing one or two specific songs from favourite artists and playing the same songs every time. If I pressed "Shuffle My Music" multiple times you can be sure that 80% of the songs in any playlist would be in every other playlist.
So, my question: how do I fix My Music? How do I get FLOW or "Shuffle My Music" to have variety? How do I get more than one song from an artist (no matter how many albums and songs they may have) to play?

Best answer by Pia.Deezer

Hi @timh we are very sorry that the “Shuffle my Music” feature algorithm is not perfect yet. I can assure you that the feedback has been passed on to the product team several times. They had to focus on other features but I just asked for you again and will let you know as soon as have more info.

In the meantime, I highly recommend that you simply shuffle your favourites, listen to your Flow, listen to the new playlist Top 2019 :wink: or shuffle your own playlists on other days for more variety.

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Aidanm123

Roadie

When ever I close the app I go back to a new shuffle when I reopen it . This means I seem to hear the same songs too often which is getting tiresome. There are other apps that allow you to continue where you left off , closed app or not . Also the same between devices allowing you to seemlessly contine with the same song on your other device and not repeating over and over again the same selection . I have about 1300 songs to listen too on my playlist that I shuffle but it seems to shuffle the same ones . I reckon I here only about 20% of the songs as I close the app when I’m done or at least I forget to leave it on as it’s so easy to swipe it away .
The app in question is not Apple Music .

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Patryk Pozniak

Guitar Hero

Hello there.

Currently I am looking forward to move to Deezer from other streaming service and there are a few things that concerns me:

When I hit Shuffle my music button the first song is always the same for some reason
After shuffling my music there are some tracks that I don't know, and which are not in my library - I have turned off "Automated recommendations"
When I turn on web app the default playlist is some garbage which I completely don't know

Shannon

Rockstar

@Patryk Pozniak very similar to the issues mentioned here, check the answers above 🙂

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Patryk Pozniak

Guitar Hero

Well main problem with Spotify is that shuffle gives me always the same songs. If yours shuffle is no different I have nothing to look at here sadly.

I've done some testing and

My first song after shuffle is always the same (happens to be an iron man)
It shuffles the same songs everytime, just in different positions.

Well, is it so freaking hard to find a streaming service that has a decent shuffle. Is making songs in random order really so hard. What the hell

Flo.Deezer

Ultimate Superstar

Hi @Patryk Pozniak so sorry you are not happy with this. Our developers are working on this part at the moment, but we do not know when the changes will be live, but hopefully soon and we can win you back 😉

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Patryk Pozniak

Guitar Hero

Hi @Patryk Pozniak so sorry you are not happy with this. Our developers are working on this part at the moment, but we do not know when the changes will be live, but hopefully soon and we can win you back ;)

Okay. I'll give you a chance. If everything will be fixed let me know and I'll give it a try 🙂

Shannon

Rockstar

@Aidanm123 sounds exactly like this issue here... keep an eye on this thread for updates on this 🙂

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reneemoodie

Roadie

Hi there - same problem. Happens on the android app and on a media box that we play through the TV. Family subscription. Many albums and artists liked. Startef our playing a wide variety of songs. Over time the shuffle my music list got smaller and smaller. Now only 9 songs play. @deezer - just admit this feature is helluva buggy, take it down and fix it.!

Anja

Deezer Staff

Hi everyone, just checked with the devs and here's an update about this issue. At the moment "shuffle my music" is a simplifies version of the feature and it's normal that it mostly plays your popular albums and favourites. But our team is already working on a better solution for this, so that you'll see a bigger variety of tracks in the future 🙂

@reneemoodie What do you mean by 9 songs? Are there only 9 songs in the queue when you use the feature or are there 9 tracks that are always in the queue?

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reneemoodie

Roadie

@Anja I just checked and it is actually 49 songs. What I mean is those same 49 songs are always there - they never change. So it's not really shuffle my music - it is endlessly play the same 49 songs. To clarify user expectation here:

You have a tab called My Music, which contains all the artists and albums and playlists that I have liked.
So what I thought Shuffle My Music would do was take ALL that material and shuffle it.

If it does not do that, you should call it something else. Shuffle An Odd Assortment of Songs would be a more accurate description!

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