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

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
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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StiekemeHenk

Guitar Hero

I hate local songs. Always dislike them when i listen to them.

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Wall Tearer

Guitar Hero

It shouldn't be hard to implement option to disable suggestions based on location!

I see there are lots of really great suggestions and ideas on this forum, but nothing was implemented.
What are your devs doing all day at their work places? Moving buttons on the design from left to right or playing with NERF guns?

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zarckiferp

Roadie

Please give users an option to disable location based suggestions, it is really annoying I get suggestions based on country where I am using the app, what if I dont like any of the songs? I don't like any of the songs but you keep suggesting them, why?Please give us an option.

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CodeFips

One Hit Wonder

The last entry is 8 months old. It seems that this problem has never been solved. I have entered 140 artists and some tens of favorites. I like to listen to Fusion or Nu-Jazz. So my preference should be clear now. And I'm constantly being suggested Frank Sinatra and Armstrong. Makes me want to puke. Now I just start the albums I like. I used to listen to AccuJazz. There are only automatic channels, but the selection was great, unfortunately AccuJazz doesn't have a subscription without advertising.

Rudi

Ultimate Superstar

Hi there @CodeFips

Thank you for reporting this to us. I'll be forwarding your comments to our Recommendations Team. In the meantime, please check this topic here for some tips on Flow, for example :wink:

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Noora

Roadie

Hi, I've registered Deezer Family since 2017.

I'm living in Saudi Arabia, yet I don't want to get recommendations of Arabic music on FLOW, Playlists, lists names now in Arabic!! . It's like spamming!!

Just add an option to (not to recommend songs based on region) please, and you can still keep songs copyrighs based on region.

If I want Arabic music I would've subscribed to a local platform, and I don't want to keep skipping Arabic songs from recommendations while working!!

Thank you.

Pia.Deezer

Ultimate Superstar

Hi @Noora thank you for contacting us regarding this matter.

Please bear in mind that the recommendations on the Deezer start page are not tailored to your taste of music. Only the sections “Made for you” and “Recommended releases” are tailored to your taste. Everything else is popular music of the country you are at. In case you do not like these please use other ways to discover new music, i.e. Flow, Discovery playlist, artist mix of your favourite artists, track mix of your favourite tracks etc. :wink:

It won’t be possible to have no recommendations of any location on the Deezer start page but our product managers are working hard on a project which will enable to change location to a Deezer country of your choice :slight_smile: Just patience is needed until this is realised.

Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

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blendkrasniqi

Rising Star

Hi @Noora thank you for contacting us regarding this matter.

Please bear in mind that the recommendations on the Deezer start page are not tailored to your taste of music. Only the sections “Made for you” and “Recommended releases” are tailored to your taste. Everything else is popular music of the country you are at. In case you do not like these please use other ways to discover new music, i.e. Flow, Discovery playlist, artist mix of your favourite artists, track mix of your favourite tracks etc. :wink:

It won’t be possible to have no recommendations of any location on the Deezer start page but our product managers are working hard on a project which will enable to change location to a Deezer country of your choice :slight_smile: Just patience is needed until this is realised.

Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

The option to change location to another deezer country is a MUST. Do you have any ETA? I keep getting suggestions from nearby countries on different languages which I don’t even know. And I don’t like local music at all. I prefer all English playlists/songs and I know i’m not the only one.

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Wall Tearer

Guitar Hero

Though I live in Germany, I couldn’t care less about German rap (and about rap at all). It would have been really helpful to disable recommendations of genres that user doesn’t like.

Even if you show me 100500 times a recommendation with German rap or Schlager I won’t click on it anyways, so you’re just wasting your resources. From the business perspective it would have been much more reasonable to present the customer recommendations that would be interesting to him on which he will actually click.

Pia.Deezer

Ultimate Superstar

Hello @blendkrasniqi thank you for outlining this further. We are sorry, there is no fixed expected date of implementation yet but I promise that we keep you updated on that :slight_smile:

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