Flow is your personalized soundtrack, which includes favorites and recommendations based on the content you've favorited on Deezer, including:
- Favorite tracks from your Favorites
- Music you listen to from the Deezer catalog
- The genres you listen to and artists you favorite
The more music you listen to, the more you'll improve Flow and Deezer smart playlists, helping Deezer make better music recommendations for you on your Home tab.
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Note: If you want to listen to only new recommendations, try our Monday discovery playlist found on the Home tab
How to improve Flow
The simplest way to improve your Flow is by adding more content to your Favorites and listening to music across the app. Whether it’s an album, an artist or a track, Flow absorbs it all.
By telling us what tracks, albums and artists you love or dislike, Flow can make better recommendations to suit your musical taste.
You can tell us what you like by using the Favorite button. You’ll see it beside every track, album, artist, and playlist.
Whenever you favorite a track, that content is added to your Favorites .
Tip: If you need more guidance, check out our article for the step-by-step process on favoriting
Note: Flow needs to understand your taste to provide you with better recommendations; it will appear on your Home tab as soon as you’ve reached 16 favorites
The Deezer Home tab
We created the Home tab specifically to recommend more music that you’ll enjoy.
In your Made for you section on your mobile device, you will find personalized playlists, inspired by your favorite artists, and new music specially tailored to your music taste. By adding songs and artists from Flow playlists to your Favorites, your Flow will become even better at serving your music needs.
Tip: Read more about the Home tab here
Note: On desktop, your Flow will be within the 'Flow: play how you feel' section
How to remove a song or artist from Flow
Just select the button and then select Don't recommend this track
or Don't recommend this artist
and that song or artist will not be replayed. This will help us to make better recommendations for you.
In addition to this, if you are not feeling the vibe of the playlist Flow has curated, you can select “I want more discoveries” - this trains Flow to present more music that closely matches the content you have listened to recently.
How to play Flow's moods
Flow's moods is our way of allowing you to listen to music that emanates a certain mood. Now you can put Flow on when you’re partying, and it’ll play party songs infinitely in just one tap!
We’ve broken Flow's moods up into six moods that you can choose from: Love, Workout, Chill, Sad, Focus, Party. This will let you choose exactly what you want, with all the benefits of Flow intact.
To play Flow with a mood:
- Select Flow
- Select the Moods icon
- Select the mood you want to listen to from the mood wheel
Tip: To return to the normal Flow, select Flow from the middle of the mood wheel
- Select Flow
- Select the Moods icon
- Select the mood you want to listen to from the mood wheel
Tip: To return to the normal Flow, select Flow from the middle of the mood wheel
- Within the ♫ Home tab, under 'Flow: play how you feel', select one of the moods to play
Tip: To return to the normal Flow, select Flow. This is located on the far left of your 'Flow: play how you feel' section
How to play Flow's genres
Flow is also curated to display soundtracks that can be selected based on a chosen genre. If you’re feeling a rock vibe, and want to listen to personalized music that fits that genre and you know you’ll love, you can select a soundtrack from the Flow by Genres wheel that is displayed on your homepage. With 32 different genres to listen to, you’ll always be able to find something to fit - six genres will be displayed on your wheel depending on the genres you listen to most, but can be changed at any time.
To play Flow with a genre:
- Select Flow
- Select the Genres icon
- Select the genre you want to listen to from the wheel
Tip: To return to the normal Flow, select Flow from the middle of the mood wheel
- Select Flow
- Select the Genres icon
- Select the genre you want to listen to from the wheel
Tip: To return to the normal Flow, select Flow from the middle of the mood wheel
- Within the Home tab, under 'Flow: play how you feel', select one of the genres to play
Tip: To return to the normal Flow, select Flow. This is located on the far left of your 'Flow: play how you feel' section
Helpful links
Exclude an artist or track from Deezer recommendations
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If you’ve just started using Deezer, Flow only knows what artists you picked when you signed up.
First, try adding more songs and artists to your Favorites. Second, give a smart track playlist from the Made for you section a try. The more you listen to music, the more Deezer will know your tastes. This will help us make better recommendations.
If that doesn’t work, try deleting your cache.
Warning: This will delete your downloads