One Hit Wonder

Is there some way to play music without selecting my favourite artists?

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
February 6, 2022
43 replies
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Y’see the awkward thing is, I kind of wanted to just listen to some music, not feed some stupid algorithm. This is a very offputting welcome experience, with no obvious way to skip it (on web, desktop app, or mobile).

I’ll be trying out the competition instead, in the hopes that they’ll allow me to try something as revolutionary as “sign up for an account and play a song”.

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Dennis Woolley Jr

Roadie

Literally just downloaded this app, trying to compare it to the other streaming services. I’m trying to see if there is an Equalizer and Volume Normalization, but it keeps kicking me out of the options menu, forcing me to select 15 artists for an algorithm I don’t care about (yet). What an extremely off putting expirence, you are scaring away customers with this nonsense. Don’t think it’s even worth looking at your app now.

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Dennis Woolley Jr

Roadie

Deleted immediately because you want me to select 15 artists before I’m allowed to even look at the options. I hope your business shuts down.

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Snaak Draak

Roadie

When are you going to fix this? Im cancelling. Came from spotify because they constantly decide for me but it seems like every app is the same.

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Emmi Akina

Roadie

Please allow me to skip this. I don’t have time to sit here and ponder what 15 artists I want influencing my playlists, and most of the songs I want to listen to don’t have artists I even know the name of. I get that it’s a useful feature for SOME people, but please allow us to skip it, it’s obnoxious and useless to me

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Sapricot

Roadie

What utter nonsense. Terrible UX, terrible responses here. Just add a skip button already. Maybe even add an option to turn off recommendations completely. Some people prefer to build their libraries themselves.

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VixenFaw

One Hit Wonder

I am sorry to hear that the process wasn’t as expected @bdsl
In order to get better recommendations we ask you to add at least 3 favourite artists. Then you can start your listening experience with Deezer.
You can always remove those 3 artists from favourites after.
I understand that would be better for you or other users to be able to skip this initial process. I’ll pass your feedback to the appropriate team.
Apologies for the inconvenience and I hope you are enjoying Deezer now and our improved catalog with more than 90 Million songs.

Its hard to enjoy a song when you get stopped from accessing the music to begin with..... 😕