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

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I am super annoyed with Deezer's feature of using IP/location as a way to determine the kind music your user would prefer.

First of all, people use VPN a lot.
Second of all, they travel. Some of us travel a lot.

Why do we have to wait for a month after i just paid to get rid of music suggestions that I was never interested in?

I suggest to add an option to customize menu on the Home Page.
So people could choose what to see on their homepage grid first.

P.S.: People have pattern-based preferences in everything, and music is the first one to be barely related to the location. Because there's Internet, TV, Radio.

Honestly, I didn't care for the first 3 months, but I keep seeing suggestions from countries I've visited like 3 months ago and I didn't listen to ANY of those songs ONCE.

WHY DOES DEEZER KEEP SUGGESTING IT?
foxxmark
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@Rudi

I don't mind, bro
Sincerely, Mark
Rudi
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Hi there @foxxmark

Let's put your comment here because the idea is linked to this. We just need to see more users voting for it!
foxxmark
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Hello.
As far as I see, all the suggested playlists depend on the geolocation, therefore most of all I see russian artists as I'm based in Russia.
Is it possible to add an option to chose the country with it's favourite/suggested playlists?
Sincerely, Mark
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This is important! I live in /non-english/ language country and it seems like that we don't have different genres. Throwing all songs of the same language in the same basket ... And I like 5, maybe 10 % of them. @tekkie solution would be great!
Rafael.
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Hey, I passed this idea on to the right team 😉
Rafael.
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Thanks for your suggestion, we have passed it on to our devs! 😉
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I live in Dubai but i don't listen to Arabic music. All the recommendations on the home page are Arabic and particularly Gulf Arabic music, which I never searched for or listened to. I get the copyright issues, but that should have nothing to do with the recommendations you provide users with. Honestly, Spotify do a much better job at that, you guys should seriously consider tweaking your AI and promoting tracks and artists the users care about. Not where they live!
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Hello Team,

Did you heared russian music? This is real trash can! Whole my life I listening only UK and USA music and some electronic bands from Europe but never russian artists. Yes I’m from Russia.

I need to change region for USA or UK and listen only this music but I don’t want to change my payment method to another country.

What can i do for this? How can i do this?
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Absolutely! They shouldn't tie your registration country to the region from which you'd like to receive music recommendations (and the music catalogue as well). Bugs me too every time.
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i don’t want that too. Should be personalized on my preferences
S
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It would be great if users could choose whether they want to see recommendations based on the country they live in or not. I am an expat in the middle east and my deezer homepage is filled with middle eastern music which I have no interest in. It is a nice addition, but considering the number of expats here, I am sure I am not the only one who would like the OPTION to change my recommendations based on what is popular globally as opposed to regionally.
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The greatest selling point of apps like Deezer is to be able to discover new music based on your previous listening history. The recommendation algorithm is supposed to work based on your "taste", not your "location".

It's annoying to have your Flow affected by your location. Just because I'm using the app in a country I'm currently working in, it doesn't mean I'm interested in their hits, charts and songs. I might not even speak the given language, some of your users are traveling expats.

Please give users a way to circumvent this issue with an option like:

1- Ability to disable location based suggestions
2- Ability to change user "location" in preferences manually. (like Youtube)
Rafael.
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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.

Thanks for the feedback! We are improving our algorithms and all feedbacks are welcome! I'm sorry that there is nothing I can change right now, but we will pass your suggestion on to our devs. 😉
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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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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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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).
Flo.Deezer
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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 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 😞
Rafael.
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@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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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!
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@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.
Shannon
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@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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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...
Anja
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@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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