Deezer is coming to Google Home, and it’s bringing Flow along for the ride

Deepak Ravlani
Aug 9, 2017 · 2 min read

Listen to music via Deezer(fifth music streaming option — joins Google Play Music, YouTube Music, Pandora, and Spotify) on Google Home to any of the 43 million tracks on the service, skip and pause/play songs, and listen to custom playlists that you’ve created or ask any of their 18 different moods spanning across 74 different genres.

Google Home already supports most streaming players, and since the voice commands are likely to be identical why would you care whether your music is being streamed from Deezer’s servers instead?

The difference is that Deezer has an excellent feature called ‘Flow’, which dynamically builds playlists based on your pre-existing music-listening habits.

Get into the flow

Simply ask your Google Home speaker to ‘Play my Flow’ and it will dynamically generate a playlist based on your existing listening preferences. You can also sculpt your Flow playlist through your Google Home by telling it which songs you do and don’t like to allow it to better learn your preferences over time.

This has the potential to work excellently through the Google Home speaker If you find it to be a hassle to try and name specific artists or songs. But even more cleverly is that Deezer will integrate with Google’s voice recognition system to understand who’s asking for their Flow, and to personalise its playlist accordingly.

Deezer for Google Home is now available in Germany and France, and will be coming to the US, UK and Australia soon.

More details: http://www.deezer-blog.com/ok-google-play-my-flow


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