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

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June 20, 2018
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Hello, I live outside of my home country and don't enjoy at all locals taste for music / local music / trends and the local music charts. Is there a way to configure Deezer to show / suggest and play only music of my taste, music inside the style already flagged by me?
I was listening a very immersive album and usually Deezer keeps on with the same style after the last track, but not this time (and some others). Some local terrible music started playing and completely ruined all that experience.
I had already tried to use foreign proxies / VPNs but my account seems to be glued to my geographical location, maybe coz my credit card billing address. Can this be fixed / changed? I'm almost giving up with Deezer and trying some alternatives. I already pay for Pandora that works fine but doesn't let me listen to an entire album like Deezer does.
I really appreciate your help.

Best answer by musicpresident

you can change your country in account settings. This will change your “music” page . you need to close and reopen the app/website to see the effect

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Benjaminc

Guitar Hero

@Benjaminc I moved your question to this topic as it was already discussed here :)

My English isn't my main language. Can you give me tl;dr so i won't need to read all the discussion? Pretty please 😅

Anja

Deezer Staff

@Benjaminc I moved your question to this topic as it was already discussed here :)

My English isn't my main language. Can you give me tl;dr so i won't need to read all the discussion? Pretty please 😅

Sure, so basically you can't change the country recommendations in your profile. But you can check the channel "Charts" and then chose a country chart playlist of your choice. Also I'd suggest you dislike all of the tracks from you country when they appear in your Flow. That way Deezer and especially Flow will learn quick and notice that you don't like certain genres or country specific music 🙂

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Simplici7y

Guitar Hero

Hi,

In the past few weeks, my usually-great flow playlists have been absolutely bombarded with low-quality local music, and I don't understand why did that happen. When it comes to my listening habits, I only listen to one local artist regularly (Silente) and almost never anyone else, yet my playlists keep getting polluted with all varieties of local artists. The infuriating part here is that the band I listen to is a rock band, yet the recommendations I'm getting on a local level contain all kinds of terrible pop and turbofolk music.

Is there a way I can change my country for recommendations, or disable local music recommendations all-together? Deezer's flows have been really good for me since their release, but in the past month or so they got to a point where I would have to skip every other song if I wanted to take a listen...

Shannon

Rockstar

@Simplici7y I moved your post here, since it's the same idea. Our previous replies still apply so check these for some more information. 🤓
As mentioned, this feedback has already been forwarded 🙂

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Simplici7y

Guitar Hero

@Simplici7y I moved your post here, since it's the same idea. Our previous replies still apply so check these for some more information. 🤓

As mentioned, this feedback has already been forwarded :)

The issue I have with your suggestion about disliking country specific music in Flow is that they don't show in the regular flow at all. My problem is that they show up in the "Inspired by" flow playlists - however I cannot seem to find a "dislike" or "don't show this again" button anywhere in those.

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elektroinside

Guitar Hero

Flow now plays music from the country I live in. It didn't before, don't know what happened. I really can't stand it, horrible & stupid lyrics. Anyway, I would really like to exclude them from Flow, as it just turned useless for me.

A feature which excludes music from selected countries would be awesome.

Thank you!

Rafael.

Ultimate Superstar

@Simplici7y I moved your post here, since it's the same idea. Our previous replies still apply so check these for some more information. 🤓

As mentioned, this feedback has already been forwarded :)

The issue I have with your suggestion about disliking country specific music in Flow is that they don't show in the regular flow at all. My problem is that they show up in the "Inspired by" flow playlists - however I cannot seem to find a "dislike" or "don't show this again" button anywhere in those.

The "Inspired by" is our new Flow tabs 🙂 You don't get the dislike button because these tabs are updated weekly. It's a playlist made from Deezer to you based on your Flow. You can learn a bit more about it here. 😉

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Simplici7y

Guitar Hero

@Simplici7y I moved your post here, since it's the same idea. Our previous replies still apply so check these for some more information. 🤓

As mentioned, this feedback has already been forwarded :)The issue I have with your suggestion about disliking country specific music in Flow is that they don't show in the regular flow at all. My problem is that they show up in the "Inspired by" flow playlists - however I cannot seem to find a "dislike" or "don't show this again" button anywhere in those.The "Inspired by" is our new Flow tabs 🙂 You don't get the dislike button because these tabs are updated weekly. It's a playlist made from Deezer to you based on your Flow. You can learn a bit more about it here. ;)

I know! But if it's based on my flow, that means I should have a way of influencing it, correct?

Still, for some reason, my flow almost never plays local songs for me (and when it does, it's only the ones I listen to), yet those "Inspired by" keep getting more and more cluttered by local songs. And I would like to declutter those "Inspired by" tabs so I can enjoy them too, as I did before they started getting ruined 😞

Flo.Deezer

Ultimate Superstar

Hi there, thanks for the suggestion and sorry for the late reply.

The songs you can play are always related to the country where you activate your subscription. We are happy to forward this although it is unlikely to be implemented as we have different rights in different countries and would be difficult for legal reasons.

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Simplici7y

Guitar Hero

Okay, since there's no way of making "Inspired by" stop giving me bad local songs in the middle of an otherwise great playlist, I resorted to reporting local songs as "undesirable content", which is technically true...maybe that helps since there's literally nothing else I can do (except constantly having to skip on my playlists).

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