More discoveries in Flow
Currently flow plays a lot of my favorites and similar music, but I would love to have more options to "discover" new music I might like. Maybe flow is not the best option for this, but overall I just wished there would be more variety or influence from my side.
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I use Deezer quite a bit, but I find I have only a few real use cases when I do:
Flow is great becuase I can just put it on an listen. But I thought it might be nice to have some sort of slider/fader system that allows users to "mix" the flow compositions.
I like new music, but sometimes I want to limit the number of "new" tracks I expect to see within my flow, and sometimes when I do a mix on an artist, it would be nice to get more new "new" music.
When I say "new" here, I don't necessarily mean new releases, but artists or songs that I have listened to or found or favourited (not sure which will give the best result yet).
Anyway, it is an idea.
As someone else posted as an idea, maybe there should be a slider for your flow which you can slide between "familiar" and "discovery". One of the things I like about the Google play "radio stations" is that I get fed songs I haven't heard before quite a bit, much more frequently than I do with my "flow" here...
As someone else posted as an idea, maybe there should be a slider for your flow which you can slide between "familiar" and "discovery". One of the things I like about the Google play "radio stations" is that I get fed songs I haven't heard before quite a bit, much more frequently than I do with my "flow" here...
Couldn't agree more. I am also frustrated every time I hear same song by artist I put to favourites. Altough this artist published 10s of albums. This should be fixed!
You can find requests for that since 2012. But don't worry everyone, Deezer will pass my thoughts on to the relevant team. Might even happen tomorrow...
I also dislike that I can't tell it that there are certain artists and genres (pop, R'n'B, house) that I have no interest in ever hearing. The "Deezer recommends" panel on the homescreen has *NEVER* recommended anything to me that I've ever wanted to click on. That's impressive.
Unfortunately the Deezer bot plays the popularity game and assumes that the highest-selling artists (or perhaps the ones that have paid for exposure?) are the ones that I want to hear.
Look, I know there's no chance of any action ever being taken on this - I just want to vent my frustration. (My suggestion will be implemented right after Deezer brings in folder support for playlists... haha. ) I'm just waiting for my 6 month free trial to end, so that I can go to Spotify.
But it has one big flaw :
More or less the same songs are played over and over again, even from day to day. And it's even worse on the same day : if you're listening music with Flow, and suddenly want to listen to a specific song/album, then run Flow again : the exact same song series is played again from start.
I, for instance, liked a lot of song, and have even more in my playlists, in a large variety of genre, so it cannot be just "bad luck" or that Flow has too few songs to choose from, it has literally hundreds choices but i'm always listening to the 30-40 same songs ( with 1 or 2 exceptions sometimes ).
It would be nice to have either a true random flow, or have a feature to "refresh the flow songs series" (since true random wouldn't be performance friendly I guess ).
The "inspired by" section is awesome though, but there i'm talking about the case of listening to my already known (and liked) music.
Thanks !
I assume it uses ratings from something like Last.fm to play only popular tracks. If so it shouldn't be hard to introduce a version of Flow which treats the entire catalog without that bias.
Iâm surprised the âDiscoveryâ mix, which plays nothing but un-favourited songs, hasnât been mentioned here. Isnât this what everyone is after?
That's likely to be the case because the feature is new,@teqteq  so thank you for bringing it up here in this topic
Hi everyone, we have been working on improving our flow feature and bringing more new songs. Also, note that now we have the Discover tab just next to the flow tab and it's amazing! Let me know your thoughts! :)
So far so good! Loving it a lot more as of late. The only thing that I dislike now is how the âNot happy with your mixâ button in flow or especially track radio works.Â
For instance I start a mix on a metal song, the next song plays me Led Zeppelin, I LOVE Led Zeppelin, but they donât belong in my ultra heavy metal mix. So I click the âNot happy with your mixâ button and it offers: âDo not recommend this track, or âDo not recommend this artistâ.
I would love to click âDo not recommend this artistâ, but I know doing so will affect them getting recommended outside of this mix as well.
This causes a lot of strain because I know my mix isnât learning anything from my lack of interaction. I could just skip the song, but it loses the point behind the âNot happy with your mixâ button.Â
I feel the way Roon handles it is much better:
You could even add a âI donât like this artistâ option to the layout.Â
Overall, the algorithm has definitely improved A LOT! Great job everyone! This is just some feedback to hopefully improve the user experience.Â
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Hi there@solstice_outcry Â
All of your feedback - across different topics - has been passed to our Recommendations team. Thank you for being so creative and elaborate, we'll surely use your feedback to improve the featureÂ