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August 1, 2024

The "Shuffle my music" feature is getting worse

  • August 1, 2024
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I have used the "Shuffle my music" feature for many years and have never had any kind of issue.
https://support.deezer.com/hc/en-gb/articles/115004269049-Favorites#how_to_shuffle_your_music
In the past, it always added songs from all my favorite tracks, albums, and playlists to my listening queue. It was great, one of my favorite features. Now, instead, it is broken. Paradoxically, it was better when I had fewer favorites, as if surpassing a certain threshold made Deezer's algorithms unable to manage them anymore. Now it seems to consider only the recently added favorites from the last month, which it cyclically replays in a repetitive and annoying manner, while ignoring all my history from previous months and years, which it never selects. This is not normal. It has never been like this until a few weeks ago.
It does not seem like an issue with my devices at all, because it occurs with both the Android App on my phone and the Web Browser on my notebook.
I also noticed "Shuffle my music" in the Deezer Web Browser version used to add 50 songs from my favorite tracks, albums, and playlists to my listening queue until a couple weeks ago, while now it adds only 10-20 songs and it does keep selecting the same ones over and over. Almost half of the songs has always been shuffled the previous time or the time before.
As I said, there are thousands of favorite tracks, playlists and albums it should choose from, but it is so bad and repetitive now. Has no one else noticed this feature has been getting worse lately?
Thanks

59 replies

August 23, 2024

As long as I do not use the Android App or wait a few hours after using it, there seem to be no more issues with the Web Browser on my notebook. I am still experimenting, though. For example, I tried Flow and noticed the genre, favorite artists, and even almost all of my favorite songs included in Flow were exactly the same as those in the "Shuffle my music" feature when it malfunctions.

The interference between Flow and the "Shuffle my music" feature, as well as between the Android App on my phone and the "Shuffle my music" feature in the Web Browser on my notebook, is quite peculiar. I hope my tests can help Deezer team reproduce the problem and understand what has been happening for over a month now.

Hitmaker
August 23, 2024

@Marcormark Sounds like Deezer should give you some free months for all this bug testing since you’re literally doing their job for them. Thank you for your efforts!

For me, the web browser version is still stuck giving me a short, repetitive Shuffle with the same dozen artists every time.  And it’s frequently the same songs that keep showing up in every single Shuffle too.

Hitmaker
August 23, 2024

A short update.  I logged out on all my devices, waited a bit, logged in only on web browser, and it actually gave me a 48 track Shuffle that pulled from my whole library of almost 400 artists, instead of the dozen it was previously stuck with.  Will try on other devices later.

August 23, 2024

Yes! I am very happy my workaround is effective for you as well and somehow restores the "Shuffle my music" functionality as it should at least in the Web Browser version!
Unfortunately, there is still no hope for the Android App.

Roadie
August 24, 2024

Give a try to spotify to get satisfactory functionality,

Roadie
August 25, 2024

 

Yes! I’m glad the workaround is restoring the 'Shuffle my music' feature in the Web Browser version. Sadly, no luck for the Android App yet. 

By the way, for video editing, you can try – it's really handy!

 

Hitmaker
September 10, 2024

Shuffle is still not working properly.  No official solutions from Deezer after a month. 

awesomemac
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Superuser
September 10, 2024

My shuffle is working. And with favourites I like or would like, but the shuffle playlist is just 23 songs.

Hitmaker
September 10, 2024

Mine still keeps adding music that is not in my favorites on all three instances - Android app, desktop app and web browser.  The only way to get it to behave temporarily is to clear caches, log out on all and then ONLY use the web browser version.  But eventually it starts acting up again.  This means I can’t use Shuffle while driving, and that sucks.

September 10, 2024

Shuffle is still not working properly.  No official solutions from Deezer after a month. 

They finally got back to me yesterday. They should update the algorithm next week to reduce repetitions and remove those glitches that introduce traces from outside the library.
Fingers crossed! 🤞