Flow repeats tracks

I’ve been using Deezer for just over a year now, and the Flow algorithm has been consistently terrible. It’s not bad at finding other music that I might like, but it keeps repeating the same songs over and over again, whether they are my favourites or not.

I have an idea to fix this. I think it would be relatively simple to implement but would have a hugely positive impact. Every track played should have a “Last Played” property. When Flow is looking for the next song to play, if the song’s “Last Played” date is within the last week (or whatever time period) then Flow re-rolls and randomly selects another song. This would help to keep the Flow fresh.

I'll be passing your comments on @maxkshaw 

Our Flow is getting some improvements soon, perhaps they can help with the fresh experience you're describing as well 

Flow is really very very bad. I gave it a chance today after about two months and it played about an hour. Then I turned the phone off and on and the flow started playing the same songs again in the same order. Incredibly. I like daily mixes but flow is really a joke.

Flow is getting much better this year.

As Rudi, the community manager commented few below stating that Flow is getting some improvements soon, perhaps they can help your situation as well and they will. Very big.

Please stay for a while to see it yourself, @Placido09 :)

Spot on @hpguru 

I really like your suggestions @maxkshaw we've got some customisation improvements to be added to Flow this year, so let's see what you think of them, when they come 

Problem! - Reaction! - Solution!

Try out my brand new app, called SkipTracks, that I have just released on Google Play. Sorry, there is no Apple version.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ian.symonds.skiptracks

I hope that SkipTracks helps with these problems. If you would like me to add new features to the app, or even if you find something that doesn't work on SkipTracks please don't hesitate to contact me directly, via the email link on the Google play store.

Ian Symonds

Developer of SkipTracks

Hi there @Ian.S 

Thanks for sharing your development work with our community, appreciated.

Have you also check our career openings?

https://www.deezerjobs.com/en/

It's a pleasure. Many thanks Rudi. I'm constantly working on SkipTracks to make it better. 🎵

Have a great day everyone. 😊

Sorry to hear that FLOW repeating tracks.

FLOW. may be best in the business to recommend tracks, but it surely does not work for everyone. Not even for me all the time. If you get unrelated tracks, skip or ban them as soon as possible.

FLOW is learning and the best of all they seem to work on improving FLOW feature-wide.

In my opinion flow learns in a perverse way. 
Each time you start the flow, you listen some tracks among your favourites or playlist. These tracks are marked as listened and liked by the engine, so next time they are proposed again and double-marked as listened, and so on. In a few you will have a very short list of tracks that flow thinks you like most of all, and it will propose those every time, with no exit.