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More discoveries in Flow

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
October 27, 2017
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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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TheOnlyRick

Roadie

Oh yeah - that's another thing that will be implemented before my suggestion above... gapless playback.

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... 😂

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Danfish98

Roadie

In addition to modifying options like favorites vs discovery, I'd like to see an option to limit repeats. I end up skipping the first 5 to 10 songs every time I start Flow because it's stuff it just played a day or 2 ago. An option to not repeat for at least a couple weeks would be awesome.

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RoobyDoobie

Rising Star

I'd like to be able to skew the Flow algorithm toward less popular tracks. I'm sure I can't be the only listener who wants to hear more than the title track from each album? This probably contributes greatly to the repetition folk have complained about.

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.

Rafael.

Ultimate Superstar

Our devs are always working on improving flow and hopefully they will be able to implement your idea! 🙂

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teqteq

Hitmaker

I’m surprised the “Discovery” mix, which plays nothing but un-favourited songs, hasn’t been mentioned here. Isn’t this what everyone is after?

Rudi

Ultimate Superstar

That's likely to be the case because the feature is new, @teqteq so thank you for bringing it up here in this topic :wink:

Rafael.

Ultimate Superstar

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! :)

solstice_outcry

Hitmaker

So far so good! Loving it a lot more as of late. The only thing that I dislike now is how the “Not happy with your mix” button in flow or especially track radio works.

For instance I start a mix on a metal song, the next song plays me Led Zeppelin, I LOVE Led Zeppelin, but they don’t belong in my ultra heavy metal mix. So I click the “Not happy with your mix” button and it offers: “Do not recommend this track, or “Do not recommend this artist”.

I would love to click “Do not recommend this artist”, 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 isn’t learning anything from my lack of interaction. I could just skip the song, but it loses the point behind the “Not happy with your mix” button.

I feel the way Roon handles it is much better:

You could even add a “I don’t like this artist” option to the layout.

Overall, the algorithm has definitely improved A LOT! Great job everyone! This is just some feedback to hopefully improve the user experience.

Rudi

Ultimate Superstar

Hi there @solstice_outcry

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 feature :wink:

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