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Shift+Click and/or Shift+arrow keys for multiple selection


Freezer
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Having to align the pointer and click dozens of check boxes is multi-select tracks for playlists or deletion is slow and frustrating. Please allow us to use industry standard multiple selection, and don’t force us to scroll back to the top of potentially hundreds of imported MP3 files to get to the “Add To Playlist” button.

The above is for the computer app. As for the mobile version, multiple selection via checkboxes would be a blessing.

I know computer shift+click has been escalated to devs a number of times before, but this would make a big impact.

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Rafael.
Ultimate Superstar
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  • March 10, 2021
Updated idea status NewIn discussion

Rafael.
Ultimate Superstar
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  • March 10, 2021

thanks for the idea, I passed it on to the right team ;)


  • Roadie
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  • May 27, 2021

This feature is still not present in the app!

I saw discussions from 3 years ago that requested this feature and it led to NOTHING.

Is is that hard to create (which is not) or the team doesn’t care about community at all


Jaime.Deezer
Community Manager
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  • September 3, 2021
The following idea has been merged into this idea:
https://en.deezercommunity.com/ideas/removing-songs-from-pllaylists-70722
All the votes have been transferred into this idea.

  • Roadie
  • 2 replies
  • October 31, 2022

It’s very painful to have to click hundreds of songs individually, when in other services I can just shift-click to multi-select. The above link by Jaime just says

You are not authorized to access this page.

Sorry, you have no access to this page.

cobrasys
Roadie
  • Roadie
  • 2 replies
  • November 7, 2022

Same here.


GropplerZorn
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  • November 7, 2022
cobrasys wrote:

Same here.

People here are happy to help, but cryptic posts like this can be challenging. Is there more to this?


cobrasys
Roadie
  • Roadie
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  • November 9, 2022
GropplerZorn wrote:
cobrasys wrote:

Same here.

People here are happy to help, but cryptic posts like this can be challenging. Is there more to this?

It was in reply to @imathew's post, which was right before mine. He said the new “idea” this one has been merged to is inaccessible. I was just saying it was happening to me as well. I don't see how it was “cryptic”.


  • 3 replies
  • February 19, 2025

Upping this thread ! The shift+click option is a basic functionnality and I’m very surprised it is still not implemented. As said in the OP, we are talking “industry standard”. What’s the point in having cool features if the core functionnalities and UI are not up to date, unintuitive and so limiting ?

Any info on how is issue is dealt with would be much appreciated! Thanks by advance


Reviving this read for visibility. Now from what I can tell, this feature is still not available on mobile nor more ideally on the desktop application. On mobile, the behavior would ideally be accessed by long press on a track thereby switching to a selection pane that one can scroll with the title side and select on the right side with associated checkbox bubbles. On desktop the behavior is more cut and dry with associated keyboard invocations. If more detail is required, please feel free to reach out.


  • Roadie
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  • July 27, 2025

Any update on this idea? I am giving Deezer a trial run before deciding if I want to leave Spotify or not, and this is a huge feature to not have. 

Past activity shows that this suggestion was merged with another 3 years ago, but clicking the link returns a 403 error. Is this feature still being considered?

 

Thank you!


  • Guitar Hero
  • 8 replies
  • July 31, 2025

Shift-Click to select multiple files in Favorites is still not implemented. I just imported 1,200 songs from someone’s Apple account using Tunemymusics that went into my favorites and now I have to click one each one individually to remove them. What are we using here, DOS?


  • Guitar Hero
  • 8 replies
  • August 2, 2025

…… I have to do the 1200 clicks twice! Once to move them to a different playlist and then again to remove them from Favorites. At least add a dropdown for a playlist to remove those songs from Favorites!!


  • Roadie
  • 2 replies
  • October 14, 2025

New to Deezer (just migrated from Spotify), loving it so far but found it VERY surprising that playlist song multi-select is not core functionality (!) Having to individually remove tracks via right- click is tiresome. PLEASE expedite this idea onto the roadmap for swift development and rollout! 
(I’m using both macbook and android app).


  • Roadie
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  • November 30, 2025

Giving Deezer a try as well, but the way editing a playlist works is just ridiculous to me. Four years later and a functionality every other music program in existence has supported for 20+ years is still not there? Come on, surely it cannot be THIS impossible to do!


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