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November 28, 2017
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"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!

     

     

     

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