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UI gripes - playlist management and search

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  • May 22, 2024
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Hi everyone,

I’ve decided to give Deezer a try because a really like the focus on quality. I’ve been a die hard Spotify user for idk how long, but I’d really like to move.

If only the (desktop) UI wouldn’t s*** that much - sorry for the expletive:

  1. No bulk select for playlist items: Seriously? A feature request for a most basic UI feature ever is open for years??? Do you really expect me to manually select every song individually, e.g. if I decide to remove a whole album from the playlist? You got to be kidding
  2. No way to add a whole album to a playlist: Kind of the reverse feature, made worse because again I have to select each item individually. Aaaaargh!
  3. Can’t disable the “Do you really want to remove these items” notification: Sorry, this is UI/UX 101 - if you provide such a dialog, you really need to give users the option to silence those requests for the future. I do know what I’m doing. BTW the dialog looks like it has been designed by a three year old….
  4. Unable to resize the columns in the playlist view and no tooltips on hover: I listen to a lot of classical music, where titles tend to be long and often the important imformation comes at the end. Made worse because the title is also truncated in the player. Come on, at least let it scroll through the viewport.
  5. Just noticed - is there really no way to clear the “wait list” (or whatever it’s called in english)? I accidentally added like 500 titles to it. How do I get rid of them? No bulk select there, either.
  6. BTW, it would be soooo nice if I could change the language of the UI.

In addition, search is also abysmal, at least for classical music:

  1. I’ve had multiple instances now where I’d get a search result, but when I navigate to the album, the respective titles are not visible. My solution has been to search the albums in Spotify, add them to a playlist there, transfer the playlist et voila. Because sure enough, those titles do exist in the catalogue. 
  2. It is incredibly hard, or maybe I’m to stupid to search for more complex items. E.g. if I want to, say, listen to Duet or Duo and then a lot of information I don’t know, but e.g. I do know the opus number and also the composer, it’s basically impossible or completely random. Something like TITLE=(Duo .* op. 80) & COMPOSER=(Arensky) - make it a power search or whatever.
    I realize Spotify or Amazon Music are in no way better. However, with the focus on High Quality Audio, I would expect that also a lot of classical music aficionados could be interested, and this would be THE chance to really excel. With such an abundant catalogue it’s really soooo helpful to have a powerful search, too. I often want to listen to a very specific recording, but actually for a lot of titles right know I would be glad if I could find any recording at all.

Maybe the UI is better in the mobile apps, however I’m not interested in using a smartphone app when I want to listen on my desktop. So I haven’t tried, and given that this is obviously the standard, very limited electron app stuff, I won’t hold my breath.

I realize that I’m probably not in the target group for this app and so I’m sorry for the rant, apparently it is fashionable to have an algorithm select the music for you and not bother with any decent management functions at all. I could live with the search limitations, but the amount of UI bloopers in playlist/title/album management are a no go for me and are not compensated for by HQ audio.


Jasmine

    16 replies

    Nina Nebo
    Superuser
    Superuser
    May 23, 2024

     

    Hi @JasmineMöller !

    I use Deezer Desktop version a lot and I will comment about your gripes .

     

    “1.No bulk select for playlist items: Seriously? A feature request for a most basic UI feature ever is open for years??? Do you really expect me to manually select every song individually, e.g. if I decide to remove a whole album from the playlist? You got to be kidding”

     

    If you want remove whole album from playlist first tap on ALBUM to sort .

     

     

     

     Chose songs which you want remove (cubes on right) or if you want remove ALL tap on CUBE beside 3 dots .

    Selected songs are marked with purple cubes .

    Then you can tap on 3 DOTS to open tab and select Remove from playlist 


     

     

     

     

    💜🎧 | Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat | 🎶💜
    Nina Nebo
    Superuser
    Superuser
    May 23, 2024

     

    “2.No way to add a whole album to a playlist: Kind of the reverse feature, made worse because again I have to select each item individually. Aaaaargh!”

     

     

    How add whole ALBUM to your playlist :

    Tap on CUBE beside 3 dots to select ALL songs from ALBUM .

    Tap on 3 DOTS and select  Add to playlist 

     

    💜🎧 | Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat | 🎶💜
    Guitar Hero
    May 23, 2024

     

    “2.No way to add a whole album to a playlist: Kind of the reverse feature, made worse because again I have to select each item individually. Aaaaargh!”

     

     

    How add whole ALBUM to your playlist :

    Tap on CUBE beside 3 dots to select ALL songs from ALBUM .

    Tap on 3 DOTS and select  Add to playlist 

     

    Okay, I missed this, thank you

    Guitar Hero
    May 23, 2024

     

    Hi @JasmineMöller !

    I use Deezer Desktop version a lot and I will comment about your gripes .

     

    “1.No bulk select for playlist items: Seriously? A feature request for a most basic UI feature ever is open for years??? Do you really expect me to manually select every song individually, e.g. if I decide to remove a whole album from the playlist? You got to be kidding”

     

    If you want remove whole album from playlist first tap on ALBUM to sort .

     

     

     

     Chose songs which you want remove (cubes on right) or if you want remove ALL tap on CUBE beside 3 dots .

    Selected songs are marked with purple cubes .

    Then you can tap on 3 DOTS to open tab and select Remove from playlist 


     

     

     

     

    I still have to select each song from the album individually, though? right? It just helps to have a sorted list. Some classical albums contain well over a hundred songs!

    Nina Nebo
    Superuser
    Superuser
    May 23, 2024

     

    “3.Can’t disable the “Do you really want to remove these items” notification: Sorry, this is UI/UX 101 - if you provide such a dialog, you really need to give users the option to silence those requests for the future. I do know what I’m doing. BTW the dialog looks like it has been designed by a three year old….”

     

     

    From my point of view  this is  an additional check that we don't mistakenly delete something we shouldn't.

     

    💜🎧 | Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat | 🎶💜
    Nina Nebo
    Superuser
    Superuser
    May 23, 2024

     

    “4.Unable to resize the columns in the playlist view and no tooltips on hover: I listen to a lot of classical music, where titles tend to be long and often the important imformation comes at the end. Made worse because the title is also truncated in the player. Come on, at least let it scroll through the viewport.”

     

     

    How to resize columns :

     on right UP corner tap on 3 DOTS to open tab and then select ZOOM  .

     

     

    💜🎧 | Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat | 🎶💜
    Nina Nebo
    Superuser
    Superuser
    May 23, 2024

     

    “5.Just noticed - is there really no way to clear the “wait list” (or whatever it’s called in english)? I accidentally added like 500 titles to it. How do I get rid of them? No bulk select there, either.”

     

     

    Wait list did you mean QUEUE !?

     

    How to clear QUEUE :

     Find SINGLE song  and start to PLAY .

    Now is in QUEUE only one song 

     

     

    💜🎧 | Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat | 🎶💜
    Guitar Hero
    May 23, 2024

     

    “3.Can’t disable the “Do you really want to remove these items” notification: Sorry, this is UI/UX 101 - if you provide such a dialog, you really need to give users the option to silence those requests for the future. I do know what I’m doing. BTW the dialog looks like it has been designed by a three year old….”

     

     

    From my point of view  this is  an additional check that we don't mistakenly delete something we shouldn't.

     

    I’m not opposed to showing this *the first time*. However, it really gets annoying quickly. Especially since you already make it so hard to delete items in the first place. I mean, you already have to explicitly choose “remove items” from the menu - it’s not like you can accidentally delete them with just the delete key (or is it? certainly not in the web app). How sure do I really have to be???

    Anyway there is this handy “Don’t show this warning again” thing… or rather it should be there.

    Guitar Hero
    May 23, 2024

     

    “4.Unable to resize the columns in the playlist view and no tooltips on hover: I listen to a lot of classical music, where titles tend to be long and often the important imformation comes at the end. Made worse because the title is also truncated in the player. Come on, at least let it scroll through the viewport.”

     

     

    How to resize columns :

     on right UP corner tap on 3 DOTS to open tab and then select ZOOM  .

     

     

    Haha, no… this just zooms the whole canvas - everything gets smaller, but the columns are still truncated! I mean, it’s standard browser zoom, that’s something totally different

    Nina Nebo
    Superuser
    Superuser
    May 23, 2024

     

    “6.BTW, it would be soooo nice if I could change the language of the UI.”

     

    Here is links on French, German, Spanish, English, Portuguese :

    https://www.deezer.com/en/

    https://www.deezer.com/de/

    https://www.deezer.com/es/

    https://www.deezer.com/fr/

    https://www.deezer.com/pt/

    💜🎧 | Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat | 🎶💜