Country Selector - a global feature!

It doesn't change rights, @Jim Barton, but the recommendations you get across the app - they reflect the country that you choose. And you can only select a country we have recommendations for  

Hello, I thoght this would help the people living in the countries where podcasts still aren't available, but as you said that's not what it is for. 

So I would like to ask when podcasts will be available in the rest of Europe and if you could add a “global” option to this country selection for those who want the best from every place? 

We don't know when podcasts will be available in some countries, but we're working on it!

Some very important addition to this is that some countries need to be split up also!
I live in Belgium (the flemish part). But for example in the podcasts I get 95% of french podcasts … which I really don’t care :)

Some other countries have the same I guess. Like Switzerland for example.

Very good point @dupondje 

I'll be forwarding your feedback to the teams working with the tool, straight away! Thank you for supporting Deezer 

I use a vpn and because of that, deezer won’t stop giving me songs that sing in spanish. i don’t speak it and it’s honestly triggering for me because i left spotify because of its bugs. my country is set to the US and now nothing changes with the vpn off

Hey @Jackedward 

Check the feature mentioned above, please 

i don’t think you realize that doesn’t fix literally anything. i had to disable my vpn and if i ever accidentally use it, i get spanish suggestions. the country selector should have a language bias, that of which it doesn’t depending on country. this is just about the only purpose for a country selector, so i’m disappointed to see this is all you can reply with

@Rudi 

Sorry you feel that way @Jackedward I'll pass on your feedback. I'm happy to help you further if I have more details.

In the meantime, please bear in mind that Deezer doesn't recommend the use of VPN's while streaming on our service.

Are you experiencing Spanish songs in which part of the app? Is this on Flow (your recommended content)? Do they show up on the homepage? Is this happening on different devices?

Let me know and I'll do my best to find a solution for you. Have a nice weekend!

I think it would be good to realize that a country is not the same as a language. As mentioned above, in Belgium we have three language groups. Yes, one could change the country setting, but that’s not the same. If I were to change my country to “the netherlands”, I would get Dutch recommendations (with a focus on Dutch content from The Netherlands) and that’s a completely different thing than Belgian recommendations in Flemish (aka Belgian Dutch). I can assure you, that IS a different story.

So, yes, I would recommend the team to work on a language preference that is tied to a geographical preference.

Right now, even though my language is set to ‘dutch’ and my country to ‘belgium’ I only get podcasts in French, even when I type in a Dutch/Flemish word in the search bar.

This could make a huge difference.