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

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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.
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Best answer by musicpresident 12 October 2020, 21:20

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Hi @Wall Tearer yes, I do understand that you want to ignore German Rap or Schlager because I am experiencing the same with my German Deezer account. We are forwarding your feedback to our product managers and they are giving their best to give you a more and more tailored-to-your-taste music experience. 

Please bear in mind that there are many other ways to discover new music, i.e. Flow, Discovery playlist, recommended releases, artist mix of your favourite artists, track mix of your favourite tracks etc. There are many ways to find treasures :wink:

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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. 


I am new user of Deezer, and this is the only annoying feature that bothers me a lot!

I am getting recommended lists only from my country.

For example, I want to see the most popular list (by number of fans) - worldwide.

 

The only reason I am using Deezer is FLAC.

 

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Hello @Yevsh, thank you for the feedback, we’ll forward it to our teams.

Thank you for trying out Deezer :slight_smile:

https://www.deezer.com/en/profile/3421485864
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Sad to see that nothing has changed 2 years later after the OP remark regarding playlist suggestions based on your geolocalisation…

Why is it so hard for Deezer to let us choose playlist suggestions for whatever kind of music style based on the country that we want instead of the one where we live?

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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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Hi Anja, thanks for replying.
I have thousands of tracks, artists and albums flagged as favorites in a very specific style so I don't think my account lacks this information. Maybe it’s a bug or a momentary problem, Anyway, it's quite annoying when it happens. I keep clicking the "x" when I dislike something that is playing but sometimes a group of
5 or 6 songs keeps playing in a loop no matter how many times I click on the "x" for those songs.
Hope this can be fixed...
Thanks!

Looks like this issue is still there. I just started using the app and, even if I have a lot of artist liked, I’m still getting mainstream garbage thrown at me every time a song finishes. 

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Hey @SPK please check the following article and give it a try: https://support.deezer.com/hc/en-gb/articles/360012847878-Changing-your-country-recommendations-on-Deezer
Let me know if that works for you :nerd:
Thanks 

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Hi Anja, thanks for replying.
I have thousands of tracks, artists and albums flagged as favorites in a very specific style so I don't think my account lacks this information. Maybe it’s a bug or a momentary problem, Anyway, it's quite annoying when it happens. I keep clicking the "x" when I dislike something that is playing but sometimes a group of
5 or 6 songs keeps playing in a loop no matter how many times I click on the "x" for those songs.
Hope this can be fixed...
Thanks!

Looks like this issue is still there. I just started using the app and, even if I have a lot of artist liked, I’m still getting mainstream garbage thrown at me every time a song finishes. 

The problem is real.

I’ve tried all streaming apps and Deezer is in the middle when it comes to recommendations.

The main problem with Deezer, is that their algorithm just isn’t working right. You get trackmix opened when cooking salty fish and spaghetti, and you need to run in same second to change the trackmix as it may not play music related to it and start with charts. When you find good trackmix, they play in a loop same mauybe 25-30 tracks so you have music only for an hour, sometimes twice as much.

Weakest point is main page. When they do have 1-2 rows personalised with daily and lately played.

It’s not enough.
I use now different app and I do like their way. Obviously can not post screenshots.

It may be considered recommending them etc.

However what they do, they have constantly personal rows all over the main page.

It keeps me basically living in the app.

When I come back to deezer, I don’t have the same interactions as they don’t have tools for it.

As you said, we don’t need charts, when there’s ton of our data what we consume and how we want to be consumed. Personally I don’t want to pay a dime with attention to charts, we have radio.

I hope it can be changed.

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I do not want to listen location based music!  I click hundreds of local artists to “do not recommend list”  and still your alco do not get the hint. I do not want to change to other location, because I have no idea which location has same music taste that I have. FLAC and yearly plan would have been reason to be here, but your recommendations are useless and the other has now good recommendations .

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I do not want to listen location based music!  I click hundreds of local artists to “do not recommend list”  and still your alco do not get the hint. I do not want to change to other location, because I have no idea which location has same music taste that I have. FLAC and yearly plan would have been reason to be here, but your recommendations are useless and the other has now good recommendations .

 

You can do that with our country selector! 

 https://support.deezer.com/hc/en-gb/articles/360012847878-Change-Your-Country-Recommendations-On-Deezer

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