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I had recently noticed that my "liked" albums seemingly disappeared…That 1000 limit sounds fairly recent, because I'm sure I was at roughly 1400 liked albums at some point (I "like" albums, not tracks or artists).Not only was that 1000 limit never "advertised", but Deezer just silently unlikes on my behalf probably the oldest album I've liked every time I like a new one?? Seriously???Ffs, I am a paying customer, and now I have to take some time to rebuild my "library" from memory, so to speak, and because Deezer just proved I could not trust them with that, I'll probably have to use a spreadsheet or any app where I don't give away the control of my data. Pretty sure a lot of people will go "duh, yeah that's what happens when you trust a streaming website, of course it's getting enshittified", still I'm disappointed.Seriously considering stopping my subscription over this.Deezer, get your shit together.
Hi, I've been using Shuffle My Music (web version of Deezer) / Flow (web) / Shuffle My Music (but on the Android app) a lot during the lockdown and I still can't fathom how it's such a mess (well actually, I work in software, I can, but that's not the point ;-)) You'd think Flow would pick stuff outside of my favorites, and Shuffle would not, but no, actually the 2 (well, 3) features seem to do Even worse, Shuffle sometimes seems to go where it pleases, ends up playing like 80% outside of my favorites… Song picking algorithm does not produce good results to me, it basically behaves like I have 100 favorite tracks instead of 1000 albums, too much songs in common in one shuffle session vs. another one... Shuffle on Android somehow seems a bit different vs. web (a little less repetitive (?), also does not have an “end” (i.e. next gets disabled at some point) like the others), but maybe it's just me...
You could let the users define/manage a set of shuffle strategies (or “Flow strategies”, I guess) (and then for example the shuffle / Flow button uses the current active one). Let’s consider that shuffle primarily runs on all your favorite albums/tracks. Characteristics of a shuffle strat could include the following: user can set the percentage of tracks that are picked (by “Flow” / Deezer’s magic recommendation algo) outside of the primary domain / “comfort zone” - e.g. 0, 10%, 20%, etc. “artist” toggle - e.g. I’ve liked Tom Waits but I’ve liked only 5 albums of him; sometimes I want the shuffle to tap into those 5 albums only, sometimes into anything Tom Waits genres can be included/excluded (e.g. jazz only, anything but metal, etc.) choose randomness between uniform, or something skewed towards the tracks you listen to a lot (you’ll consciously reinforce the skew...), or other pre-defined randomness strategies etc. - the more options we have to finetune our custom shuffle, the bette
Hello, Indeed, Favourites > Shuffle My Music is pretty shocking. Even if you want to keep that broken-ish feature as is, why can't we get an additional button for unlimited, uniform distribution random play on the whole favourites library? You could even let the users (opt in for advanced features and) write/manage multiple custom shuffle rule sets (e.g. true random on my lib but without metal or classical, true random on my lib but jazz only, etc.). NB: I’ve also noticed that there are sometimes (not hard to repro) short sequences (say, 3-5 songs) that are repeated (once) during shuffle (shuffle > (...) a b c d e f g d e f g h i j k l (...)) I get that the devs are hard at work on tricky scale/streaming problems, but you could spare a few for UX / to build some direly needed features. Thanks
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