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February 11, 2022
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Why can't Deezer just play the song from the artist I searched for?

  • February 11, 2022
  • 34 replies
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I’m using the Deezer web version on Chrome/Mac.

  1. I search for the Artist I want to listen to
  2. I click on Tracks
  3. I click on a track to play

Expected: play the track that I selected, then play the next track from the list of songs from the same artists.

Actual: play the track that I selected, then play some random algorithmic selected song that I don’t want.

Solution: Either play the one song I selected and stop or play the next song in the list of songs from that artist. 

For example:

I search for Fleetwood Mac and click ‘Tracks’. I select a track I want to listen to ‘Little lies’, note how the next track in the list of songs is ‘Big love’.

The track plays and the queue shows the 1 song ‘Little lies’. When the song is finished a completely random song (addicted to love - robert palmer) starts playing and appears in the queue.

I never selected ‘addicted to love’ and it only shows after the selected song is finished. Where is the ‘don’t automix’ button?

I expect:

  • Deezer stops playing after the first song finished
  • Deezer plays the next song in the list of songs from the artists (in the example above this would be ‘big love’
  • A very clear UI element that allows me to stop automatic suggestions 

Deezer thinks I want:

  • A completely random and unrelated song to start playing.

If I want to auto mix or auto play random songs let me initiate that instead of making it default without a button to disable it. Also make it easier to play songs from a single artists instead of requiring to create a playlist, manually fill the queue or select a specific album.

Best answer by

Hey @why123321 

In the search you start a mix with a track. This behavior is relatively new. I've often read from users that they don't like it that much. :expressionless:

If you start the mix on an artist's page, other artists will also come up, although you might expect only tracks from the desired artist to come up. :expressionless:

Only when you start the music within the 'Top Tracks' of an artist, the other top titles of this one artist are also played. :smirk:

Maybe @Yula can write something about whether the topic is already being discussed internally or not.

34 replies

GropplerZorn
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Superuser
June 25, 2025

 

Deezer Legend
Guitar Hero
August 6, 2025

I ran into that too when testing Deezer. One thing that helped during the switch from Spotify was using muzconvtool — it let me move over my playlists exactly how I wanted, so I could avoid relying on Deezer’s algorithm. Worth checking out!

One Hit Wonder
November 8, 2025

+1 - This feature is god-awful.  I’d love for there to be the option to “disable mixes” in all instances, as I cannot think of any time I’d ever want it to happen unless I explicitly do something like “right-click > generate mix from song” or similar!

Guitar Hero
April 3, 2026

Not sure if bumping three different threads with the same complaints will do any good, but the squeaky wheel gets the grease so they say. Would really appreciate seeing this get addressed directly rather than with a workaround.

A lot of people are frustrated with this. The ask isn’t the delete the feature, as I’ve seen the team insist in other threads that plenty of people love it. The ask is just to make the feature functionally optional. Please.