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November 28, 2017
Not for now

"My Music" management enhancements (library-oriented)

  • November 28, 2017
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Among all "big players" on music streaming, Deezer is the only one that still relies on a "playlist-oriented" approach for "My Music" management, rather than a "library-oriented" approach, as Spotify, Google Play Music, Apple Music, Napster et al. do.

I would really like to suggest that Deezer improves its "My Music" management system to become more "library-oriented". This enhancement includes:

* Add/Remove/Sync individual tracks from library (Deezer currently only supports adding/removing tracks to/from playlists and sync entire playlists and albums)

* Add another shortcut "Add track to library" along with "Add to favourites"

* New browsing options to library: browse by artist (show all tracks from a given artist which were added to library), by album (show only those tracks added to library), and by track (show, in a single list, all tracks added to library).
    Pinned Reply By Krs Sns

    Hmmm?! 

     

    I don’t think that going the way of Spotify and other services by linking favourite songs, albums and artists together is a good idea. It is not really what i expect to be a good library.

     

    I advocate to regard that three sections as three libraries with different functions: In favourite artists i want to have that few artists that i really love - the same with favourite songs. An example to the latter one: I am not a fan of an artist and i don’t like his discography, but maybe just one song for whatever reason. Or i discovered an unknown song from an unknown artist and want to rember/keep it. I don’t want to see that artist in the favourite artists section and also i am not interested to see the album in its corresponding section - at least at that point. In the favourite albums tab however i want to build my big collection as a music lover: that section at least in my case is by far the biggest one. I think that is THE reason to keep that three sections separated.

     

    I would like to propose rather to give each section the love and functions it needs:

    • album section: give us the opportunity to group the albums by release date, album artist, genre and label (publisher). With grouping i mean nested levels, f.e. if you group by album artist: you have a list or thumbnails of album artists. Then if you click an artist, you are going to see its releases as covers
    • In artist section you can put favourite artists in folders, so that you have a folder for rock artists, one for folk singer and another let’s say for female rappers. (by the way: the same for playlists would also be amazing)
    • In favourite songs section for me would be enough the list we have now, but i think some people will be amazed to have the opportunity to group by artist, date or genre. Manually created folders on the other hand are not a good idea: that can be done in the playlist section

    In my eyes that would be an amazing library. So far there is no streaming service that gives enough love to that. Apple music until now at least have some good points in that regard.

     

    Thanks for reading!

     

     

     

    31 replies

    Guitar Hero
    August 31, 2018
    Just leaving my support for this idea here. This is the only thing I miss from my time on Spotify.
    S t e r e o
    Rising Star
    Rising Star
    January 21, 2019
    Much like how it's done in Apple Music, I would like to browse through my favourite tracks by album cover art or artist image... even though I might only have 1 or 2 tracks of said album or artist in my library (then going into the album or artist, only these will show up)

    Even better would be if these were simply integrated into the existing Albums and Artists views in the same fashion as Apple Music.

    Maybe I'm wierd, but I prefer scrolling and browsing through my music visually with artwork rather than a list of tracks sorted by album or artist oe whatever.
    S t e r e o
    Rising Star
    Rising Star
    January 21, 2019
    The ability to define "Smart" playlists based on genre which automatically grow as you grow your library. Could also be useful by artist in same cases.
    S t e r e o
    Rising Star
    Rising Star
    January 21, 2019
    Exactly the same principle would be great for the uploaded MP3s playlist as well!
    Rafael.
    Ultimate Superstar
    Ultimate Superstar
    January 25, 2019
    Hi there, we already have our flow tabs, have a look! https://support.deezer.com/hc/en-gb/articles/201331091-Flow-your-personal-soundtrack-by-Deezer
    But I'm happy to pass this feedback on to the right team 🙂
    Rising Star
    May 29, 2019
    This thread seems dead, but I'd like to show support too.

    I shuffle my music mostly & find it really had to know which track is playing from which playlist. Perhaps if Deezer cannot have a global library for some reason, a "Playing from xxxplaylist" field could be added to the now playing screen.

    This would make it easier to delete tracks or correct some of those live recordings and remixes that always seem to sneak in.
    Rudi
    Ultimate Superstar
    Ultimate Superstar
    May 30, 2019
    I haven't been here in a long time @RoobyDoobie thanks for pointing it out! Left my vote, and your point about deleting tracks is quite relevant too. Hopefully our product team can discuss this.
    Rising Star
    October 24, 2019

    Would love to have the option to view a playlist in Album View. Meaning, instead of each individual track as part of a playlist, you would see the album cover similar to how you do in the Albums section of My Music. I do this for specific “playlists” like when I’m organizing my favorite albums of 2019 for example. I don’t want to see the individual tracks, I want to see the albums.  

    Rafael.
    Ultimate Superstar
    Ultimate Superstar
    January 9, 2020

    Hi there, isn't something like this idea below?

    https://en.deezercommunity.com/ideas/317

    Guitar Hero
    February 8, 2020

    Just wanted to voice some support for this as I am truly disappointed in the way my “favorites” are only accessible to sort via the Favorites playlist alone.

    A true “Library” if you will, should be at the top of your next sprint. Trying to access artists of songs that I’ve favorited requires me going through the entire list of favorites or scrolling to the right letter, but still have to scroll through that letter in the alphabet’s list of songs by artist.

    Also, by “true library” i mean what every other service has (except SoundCloud, but their platform historically has never been built this way and for discovering new or underground music it’s fine) where I favorite or like a song, it gets added to my library or favorites, and when I click Artists or Albums I am able to sort my favorite songs accordingly by one of these parameters in an aesthetically pleasing manner. Whether it’s a grid of each artist or a list with icons of each artists name that pans out into a tree of the albums of the songs that I’ve favorited of theirs.

    The current way the service is set up is messy enough to warrant a lateral move to a different service. Hopefully this type of functionality/organization is in the works.