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Hairless Ape
Guitar Hero
Guitar Hero
July 4, 2021
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How do i 'add to queue' or 'play next'?

  • July 4, 2021
  • 66 replies
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When I'm jus t listening to music I like to scroll through songs I like and queue them up to play. 

I can't work out how I do this, what am I missing?

 

I'm using the Android version (v6.2.30.88)

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Attention: ‘Play next’ oder ‘add to queue’ do not work with mixes (artist or genre).

It also doesn't work with flow and dynamic lists (e.g. Sunday chill, daily, My top month).

This is not a bug, it is by design. :smirk:

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Jaime.Deezer
Community Manager
Community Manager
July 6, 2021

Hi @Hairless Ape can you let me know if this happening while Casting? If that is the case, we have not developed the feature yet.
Thanks 
 

Roadie
July 6, 2021

What about on the app without casting? E.g. I'm listening to an album,  and I want to interject it with an unrelated song from a completely different artist.

Context: I use this feature a lot. Sometimes for songs but more often to queue some podcast episodes to my bike ride. Right now it looks like i have to play one podcast episode, and when it is over the playback stops, I have to stop my bike and go find and play a different episode or resume music. 

I am on android  6.2.30.88.

Thanks

Hairless Ape
Guitar Hero
Guitar Hero
July 11, 2021

Hi @Jaime. I don't think casting affects this (or rather I assume casting has the same problem because when I cast, the Chromecast just does what the app tells it to do).

 

Here's what I just did: I was listening to a song and Deezer built a playlist off it. As I was scrolling down I say Kyoto by Phoebe Bridgers and though "I like that, haven't heard it in a while, I'd like to listen to that next" - I can't do that. When I tap it, it starts playing immediately. 

As it was playing I hit the "play song mix" feature, and it stopped Kyoto and started playing a related song -- it's not hard to imagine that I wanted to listen to the rest of that song -- it's kinda implicit in why I chose to play the song mix. 

So while the first related song was playing I went back to "my top June" and found a song to listen to, but all I can do it play it now -- whereas what I want is 'play next'.

I've seen an 'add to queue' menu item appear -- I've not worked out under what conditions it shows up, but surely it should always be there?! You know what it does? It adds it to then end of the queue; a queue of semi-random songs that Deezer generated for me - I'm not saying that's not a great feature, but I can't add the song I just picked onto the top of the queue. 

Honestly, I can't quite work out what the Product Managers are thinking, cos none of this UX makes any sense at all. You've done the hard work getting the licensing, building the app, and the market; but (sorry) the UX sucks!

How do users give feedback to Deezer?

Answer
July 11, 2021

Attention: ‘Play next’ oder ‘add to queue’ do not work with mixes (artist or genre).

It also doesn't work with flow and dynamic lists (e.g. Sunday chill, daily, My top month).

This is not a bug, it is by design. :smirk:

Hairless Ape
Guitar Hero
Guitar Hero
July 14, 2021

Attention: ‘Play next’ oder ‘add to queue’ do not work with mixes (artist or genre).

It also doesn't work with flow and dynamic lists (e.g. Sunday chill, daily, My top month).

This is not a bug, it is by design. :smirk:

One man's feature is another man's bug.

I would ask "why would you want to prevent queue management in certain scenarios?"

This must be "we deprioritized building this feature", rather than "we reviewed the request and decided it should not be included".

Roadie
July 14, 2021

I've searched the community and see that queue management features have been on the roadmap for 3 years without any progress. This is a deal breaker for me. Maybe I'll revisit when there's better UX in the future.

Roadie
January 21, 2022

Well that’s disappointing. I legit thought this was a bug or something.

 

Any plans for a proper fix?

Guitar Hero
January 21, 2022

The actual situation

When I want to hear a specific song, I can’t queue it, so I have to press play, which stops flow. After hearing the song, I have to go back to Deezer and restart flow. 

 

What I want….

As a user, I want to put flow on in the morning and occasionally add a few songs to the queue, and have flow continue automatically afterwards, so I can go about my day enjoying music.

 

 

 

Guitar Hero
January 21, 2022

Hell. Just searching through this forum, you can find this exact issue going back years, with Deezer calling it “intended behaviour”. 

 

 

Alfredo.Deezer
Community Manager
Community Manager
January 24, 2022

Hello @Xander 

Thank you for your feedback, we hope that we can add this feature to Deezer very soon  :nerd: