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One Hit Wonder
June 5, 2022
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What does FLOW think if I unlike a song?

  • June 5, 2022
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Hello. I am in love with my FLOW, it works amazing, but I have a question about the algorithm behind it. Let’s say FLOW played a song I haven’t heard before and I added it to my liked songs by tapping the heart. I try to only add album versions of a song for organization purposes and I didn’t realise the song was from a single. What happens if I remove the heart while the song is still playing and add the album version instead? Does FLOW think I dislike that song?

Best answer by

@cefeb 

Flow is already smart enough to realize that only a different variant of the song is favored. Dislikes have a much stronger effect.
Otherwise, don't think too much about it and rather listen to more music.
 

Alternatively, I recommend reading this really excellent article:

😁

12 replies

Noam Asulin
Superuser
Bezi since 2017
June 8, 2022

That’s a good question . 

My assumption is Deezer acts to both songs separately  though I’m not really sure how the algorithm take it …. 

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Superschlumpf
Superuser
Deezer "Sonos Master" Legend
June 8, 2022

@cefeb 

In my opinion it’s like @Noam Asulin said. Deezer will remember that you may in general like this artist and the genre, but specially the liked song. Flow also prefers to play songs from your liked list, but may be in future it also will play other versions of the song. 
Only disliked songs or artists will be ignored by flow.

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Answer
June 8, 2022

@cefeb 

Flow is already smart enough to realize that only a different variant of the song is favored. Dislikes have a much stronger effect.
Otherwise, don't think too much about it and rather listen to more music.
 

Alternatively, I recommend reading this really excellent article:

😁

cefebAuthor
One Hit Wonder
June 8, 2022

Thank you so much!

Guitar Hero
November 6, 2023

One more thing (6 Nov 23) - I see that to ‘tame’ flow, it needs to learn - got that. 

So reading up on the Deezer forum, I can ‘heart’ something I like (already figured that out), or ‘not recommend’  which requires me to click on the 3 dots and then scroll to that option. 

BUT!  If you are in play ‘favourites’, the ‘do not recommend’ isn’t there - even though the tracks are most certainly NOT favourites.  You can only either ‘heart’ them or skip. 
(And as an aside, I saw one explanation for disliking a track where there’s an angry face to click on - I presume that's disappeared?  It’s not on my desktop app nor my phone app. 

awesomemac
Superuser
Superuser
November 6, 2023

 

BUT!  If you are in play ‘favourites’, the ‘do not recommend’ isn’t there - even though the tracks are most certainly NOT favourites.  You can only either ‘heart’ them or skip. 
(And as an aside, I saw one explanation for disliking a track where there’s an angry face to click on - I presume that's disappeared?  It’s not on my desktop app nor my phone app. 

You are correct. There is no angry face button to click on when listening to your “Favorites”.

But there is a difference between the 2 favorites:

  • You can listen to your “favorites”. Music that can be from your favorites or music that is similaire to your music taste. This is all put in 1 mix. Only option: Heart or skip.
  • You can listen to your (real) favorites. You have to go to your playlists and choose Favorite songs.

Shuffle my music
(Shuffle mijn muziek)
This is the first option, with your favorites mixed with others.

 

Your real favorites.

awesomemac
Superuser
Superuser
November 6, 2023

On the web:

By using this, you will get a mix from your favorites and other simulair songs, Heart or skip.

 

 

 

 

 

 

By using this, you will get only your favorites.

Guitar Hero
November 7, 2023

I have found out how to get rid of the tracks that I don’t like - on the desktop version anyway! 

Rather than just skip it (for it to probably come up again) there’s an X at the end of the track details. 
Hopefully the tracks don’t come back! 

 

 

awesomemac
Superuser
Superuser
November 7, 2023

Let’s hope so. Let us know if this is not the case.

Guitar Hero
November 8, 2023

My desktop app was updated today - now the ‘favourites’ have a ‘do not recommend this track’ plus the X to get rid of it altogether.  

The only thing now is I have to be vigilant as no matter how many times I do not recommend and delete the damn Christmas tracks, new ones keep coming - Deezer is simply not learning that this genre is NOT my thing!