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Improve Shaker - Great Concept! Poor execution.

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  • February 27, 2026
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Just tried out Shaker last night for a music and dance party hosted on zoom, and there were quite a few things that I think could be improved here:

  1. Make it easily accessible. I had to find out about this by googling “collaborative playlists online” - at no point did I (after over a year of using Deezer both on desktop and mobile) know this was a feature. When I closed out the tab, I had to search it in google again because there’s no way I could find to access it from the main deezer page.
  2. Allow playing the playlist from Shaker in desktop mode. 
  3. Allow playing the group mix from Shaker in desktop mode.
  4. Allow non-users to add songs! Especially as most people use Spotify, people aren’t going to make an account just to add songs to a playlist - anybody suggesting Deezer as a platform in a group of Spotify users will get outvoted simply due to this lacking feature. If non-users can add songs and experience the platform freely though, they may be enticed to join. The non-Deezer users I was able to convince to make accounts were pleasantly surprised by the availability of music
  5. Make songs in the shaker screen actual songs? Why on earth are they clickable pictures? You can’t add to playlist from there, you can’t favorite from there, you can’t do anything. It’s a very restrictive experience that feels clunky and claustrophobic.
  6. Improve the add tracks search function within Shaker - it’s also weirdly restrictive and won't show as many results, and you have to use precise language that the regular Deezer search does not require. e.g. searching

 

Great concept! I’d love to see these changes made. A lot of manual work was required on my side last night due to the people who couldn’t add songs as non-users.