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GuilhermeO
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June 20, 2018
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How can I disable recommendations based on country (local suggestions)?

  • 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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    Rafael.
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    Rafael.
    Ultimate Superstar
    January 15, 2019
    Hey, I passed this idea on to the right team 😉
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    Mirtma
    Rising Star
    January 17, 2019
    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!
      foxxmark
      Roadie
      foxxmark
      Roadie
      March 7, 2019
      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
        Rudi
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        Rudi
        Ultimate Superstar
        March 7, 2019
        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
          Roadie
          foxxmark
          Roadie
          March 7, 2019
          @Rudi

          I don't mind, bro
          Sincerely, Mark
            Roadie
            Johny.Su
            Roadie
            March 20, 2019
            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?
              Rudi
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              Rudi
              Ultimate Superstar
              March 20, 2019
              Hey @Johny.Su

              Thanks for your feedback, I've moved it here, so that you can vote for the idea. If you don't use VPNs, you'd only get recommendations from the country of subscription purchase.
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              den5431
              Guitar Hero
              May 15, 2019
              We need more customization and the ability to choose or exclude music from region or languages !
              There is absolutely 0 possibility of customization in Deezer that's really bad...
                Roadie
                soundmann
                Roadie
                May 22, 2019
                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
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                GuilhermeOAuthor
                Rising Star
                May 22, 2019
                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

                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 is doing a much better job on suggesting new stuff. No bullshit!
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