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Best of both worlds - Flow & Shuffle My Music

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  • December 14, 2024
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More than 95% of the time when I listen to music, I just want some sort of random shuffle, like a personal radio station. I signed up for Deezer hoping Flow would be that, but it’s missing the mark. I’ve been trying Shuffle My Music instead recently and I’m enjoying it better, but that too is missing the mark. I’m realizing that I’m in search of a sort of combination of Flow and SMM. Below compares Flow to SMM to My Ideal. These percentages are my best guess based on my listening experience. Based on many of the forum topics I’ve read, I think this would satisfy many users. Thanks for your consideration!

 

  Flow SMM My Ideal
Discovery/New music 60% (even with More Favorites turned ON) 0% (for first 50 songs) 20%
Favorite Tracks 20% 33% 20%
From Playlists 20% 33% 20%
From Favorite Albums (not a favorite track) 0% 33% 20%
From Favorite Artists (not a favorite track or from a favorite album) 0% 0% 20%
Ability to adjust %’s above No No Nice-to-have but not a big deal
Genre/Mood Selection Yes No Yes

 

4 replies

Leonídia.Deezer
Community Manager
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Lorthirk
Guitar Hero
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  • Guitar Hero
  • July 4, 2025

I agree with all of the above. I think many people coming from Spotify are missing the Smart Shuffle feature, me included. Please consider this (and yes, I already upvoted 😉)


Mr. Jahrami
Hitmaker
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  • July 5, 2025

Wait a minute.. on Deezer app, when you say Shuffle My Music, are you referring to the shuffle icon at the top right under the Favorites tab? I always thought that just shuffled tracks from my liked songs and playlists. I didn’t realize it could also recommend and play songs outside my library. Is that how it works? So it’s not just a regular shuffle.. it’s more like Smart Shuffle on Spotify, mixing your music with suggested tracks?


bluezzbastardzz
Superuser
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I prefer Shuffle my music to Flow these days, as it does not play recommendations and sticks to your existing Deezer music library. I fooled myself in the last days that it would do that, because I suddenly saw some brand-new tracks coming up which were not in my library, but that was my own fault of keeping the imported Spotify Release Radar and Discover Weekly playlists in Deezer after checking them for AI-generated content. So I’m happy again with listening to Shuffle my music, as it reminds me of my old Library radio on Last.fm while Flow would be the equivalent of their Mix radio, only with FLAC streaming this time. 😉

I also created and edited more playlists for my favorite artists (e.g. adding all albums of Alan Parsons & his projects) which got picked up by the algorithm for Shuffle my music pretty quickly. So that would solve the problem of adding your favorite artists to Shuffle my music, as simply liking/adding the artist page is not enough.