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📲 ALGO Customisation: Deezer’s Latest Update Puts You in Charge 📲

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April 16, 2025
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Take control of your music experience with Deezer's improved recommendation settings. Learn how to manage your music preferences, dislike tracks you don't want to hear, and customise your algorithm to get better recommendations 🤓

Find out how to make Deezer's algorithm work better for you!

What’s New? 👀

❌ A Smarter, Simpler Ban Button - Say goodbye to songs that just aren’t your vibe. We’ve made the Dislike button easier to find and use—so you can instantly let Deezer know when something’s not hitting right. One tap, and it’s out of your algorithm.

➕➖The ALGOrithm Settings Space - Discover a new dedicated Tab to see which songs and artists are currently influencing your recommendations and edit the list as you please.

🫡 Manage your dislikes - Remove artists and tracks that no longer reflect your taste.

💜 Tune your feed - Add or remove elements to better align with what you want to hear.

📱 App: CLICK HERE

🖥️ Web: CLICK HERE

How to Use It 💡

How to dislike Tracks or Artists

Don't want to hear a particular song or artist in your recommendations? No problem! Here's how to dislike them:

When playing a song, tap dislike button in the player
Choose from two options:
- Don't recommend this track - removes just this song
- Don't recommend this artist - removes all songs from this artist

Managing Your Disliked Content

Want to see what you've banned or change your mind about something? Here's how:

Open your Settings
Tap "Manage my dislikes"
You'll see lists of all your disliked tracks and artists
Changed your mind? Tap the X next to it

*What Happens When You Dislike Something?

When you dislike content, Deezer will:

Remove it from your Flow
Keep it out of your mixes and recommendations
Learn your preferences to suggest better alternatives

By customising your algorithm, you'll see all your liked, disliked and streamed tracks and be able to tweak the list to influence your future recommendations 🤓

Tell Us What You Think! 📣

We’re building this with you in mind, and we’d love your input. Explore the new features, and let us know:

What’s working? What could be better? Leave your suggestions/feedback in a comment under this post!

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bluezzbastardzz

Superuser

Is it supposed to work in the desktop app and web player, too, and it only works with the latest mobile apps, right?

ZZee ya, Hans-Jürgen (Bluezz Bastardzz and Indigo Rocks, live album on Deezer, last.fm/user/hjbardenhagen)

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Nick Pretzel

Guitar Hero

I haven't seen a dislike button, but I assume it's only available for Flow? It would be nice to extend it to all play options. When using shuffle play, there are one or two albums that I really like but they include tracks that I really don't like (Prince was an example. Much as I love him, I found nearly all his albums had one really bad track). For playlists I can see that it shouldn't be an issue, at least for playlists I've compiled, after all, I chose the tracks, but the same can't be said of playlists compiled by you or your algorithms (e.g. the playlist for a particular genre, the playlists for particular artists (the 100% playlists) and most of all on playlists like the new releases ones (the ones I think most likely created by algorithms rather than curated. No two people's tastes are exactly alike, so curated playlists are just as likely to have tracks you don't like). It would be really cool if you could add it to any track currently playing, not just to Flow. As a former Software Engineer, I would have thought that that would be relatively simple to do? (although, of course it depends on how your choice is structured and may not be. But I imagine that it's just a matter of adding the button whenever a track is playing and calling the relevant routine that shouldn't need editing, it would be doing exactly the same thing).

Thank you

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JimBob

Roadie

I’m on 10.36.2 on iOS and iPadOS. Nothing about what is being shown/discussed here. I refreshed the app list on both devices and they are on 18.4.1.

Can you show EXACTLY the steps to find this? Start with Home screen, circle the objects to press….

I use Deezer half as much as I could b/c I don’t like what Flow pics at all and none of the pre-configured moods/options work for me.

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Prey

Guitar Hero

First of all, I’d like to say that I really enjoy the new features you’ve introduced—thank you for the continued improvements!

I wanted to suggest a small enhancement regarding how the algorithm interprets our listening habits. Currently, when we "like" a song, it contributes to shaping our personal music recommendations, which is great. However, sometimes I come across a song that I enjoy but would prefer to add it to a specific playlist (for example, a Rock playlist) rather than to my general "Liked Tracks" list.

In such cases, if I don’t "like" the song, it seems that the algorithm may not consider it as a preference, even though I clearly enjoyed it enough to save it in a themed playlist.

My suggestion is this:
If a user adds a song to one of their playlists—especially frequently played, genre-specific ones—that action could also be used as a signal to help personalize recommendations, even if the song wasn’t explicitly "liked." This would allow the algorithm to better understand our preferences in a more nuanced way.

I believe implementing this idea could significantly enhance the listening experience for many users.

Thanks again for all your hard work!