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How can I disable recommendations based on country (local suggestions)?

[quote=soundmann]This! The reason I don't bother at all with these online entertainment services is that they push so much shite generated by some loosely averaged profiling and as it was pointed out, you need to be more active using the service to fight back that flow of dumb in order to keep your recommendations to your tastes, something that's actually very integral part of their business models, to trick the users to come back over and over again by gaming their heads with something users are urged to block. So sickening business and not at all in any good way. #deleteinternet[/quote] Unfortunately just like you sad, it's a business aimed to the majority of listeners that doesn't know the difference between a major and minor key. Mainstream. End of the game. Spotify seems to be winning this battle, at least doesn't have the 2K limit for the favorite tracks list that it seems to be the seed for a good suggestion. Actually, with only a few hundred tracks added as favorites spotify

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Tiny Dancer
8 months ago
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How can I disable recommendations based on country (local suggestions)?

It would be such a fantastic feature if Deezer could work as a mix of what it is right now and Pandora. Pandora doesn't take into account the band/artist name, but the actual music, how it's it structure, kind of lyrics, male/female singer, rock/pop/jazz/classical/major/minor etc so if you pick some songs it will always suggest something related with that style and not based on the artist name/country or associations. The downside, you can´t listen to an album like Deezer, only music suggested by Pandora based on the style/artists you used as "seed". Mixing this two algorithms would certainly bring Deezer to the number one on the list of streaming services. And of course stop suggesting crappy music / "artist" as a starter would also help a lot.

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Tiny Dancer
8 months ago
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How can I disable recommendations based on country (local suggestions)?

Ok, here is an idea for all of you that gets mad like me with the awful / ridiculous / bad taste suggestions Deezer gives on the front page on the "Deezer Recomends", "Playlist ´picks", "Popular", "Charts" etc... It´s only cosmetic but at least save us from having to see the faces of filthy “artists” that doesn’t have a clue of what actual music is. Use an ad blocker on your browser and block those sections of the front page. Most of them allows us to “point and block” so that annoying section will not show again. It´s only cosmetic, it doesn’t change a thing on how Deezer works or suggest the next song, but it’s a starting point… Unfortunately there is no similar solution for mobile app. Good luck!

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Tiny Dancer
8 months ago
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How can I disable recommendations based on country (local suggestions)?

Hello Anja. Really sad to now about the mobile app. The way people rely more and more on mobile devices every day it's odd thinking the app is a reduced version of the web player and will continue this way. Will post on the music forum when I find awkward music combinations. Thanks. [quote]Hi thee, we've already passed the feedback about the missing hear this on the app on to the team. As of now, it's intended to not have in the app, but maybe this will change in the future :) Regarding two artists with the same name, this is something that happens sometimes and we really appreciate this feedback from users. If you can think of a profile, would you mind letting us know in the music forum? We will let our music team straight away and they can fix this easily :)[/quote]

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Tiny Dancer
8 months ago
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How can I disable recommendations based on country (local suggestions)?

Thanks Shannon! It seems some other people are having the same issues I am. Deezer was better in the past and lately things seems to be getting worse/broken. Lets wait and see if they get it right. Quite off-topic but the mobile app is an example of what could be improved having the same web app features. "Hear this" is one of the features that never worked well on the mobile app and now it doesn't exist any more in favor of some awkward playlists based on artists I like that actually get it all wrong. It seems Deezer is trying to add Pandora like features but it's a bit far from getting it to work correctly. It's easy to find mixed salsa and rock songs from two different artists sharing the same name, so things seems to be sorted based on the artist name and not on the music itself. Hope they can get it working right as it's a very good idea! Cheers!

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Tiny Dancer
8 months ago
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How can I disable recommendations based on country (local suggestions)?

Hi Anja, thanks for replying. I have thousands of tracks, artists and albums flagged as favorites in a very specific style so I don't think my account lacks this information. Maybe it’s a bug or a momentary problem, Anyway, it's quite annoying when it happens. I keep clicking the "x" when I dislike something that is playing but sometimes a group of 5 or 6 songs keeps playing in a loop no matter how many times I click on the "x" for those songs. Hope this can be fixed... Thanks!

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Tiny Dancer
8 months ago
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