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Rising Star
February 21, 2024

Music not being downloaded

  • February 21, 2024
  • 24 replies
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Recently got a new phone so the first thing I did was rip through the list of favourite albums to download so I can listen offline if needed. This was about 3 weeks ago now.

Today I was browsing my album list but noticed the download icon was gray, and checking the list only half of the music I selected had been downloaded. I have also verified this by selecting listen offline where I wad unable to listen to this music.

Why is so much music failing to download? No error messages were seen. App has been restarted, cache cleared, phone restarted etc.

Using Android 14 with the latest Deezer beta version. Phone has plenty of storage (400+GB free space).

Getting pretty fed up with all these issues now, on the verge of cancelling and signing up with Tidal...

    24 replies

    Guitar Hero
    May 28, 2024

    I've had this issue too.  Super annoying when about to go on a flight and find music isn't there.  About to spend a few days off WiFi recently and again downloads stop part way through.  Tried uninstalling and reinstalling app, which helped some, but not completely. 

     

    I moved to  paid Deezer from paid Spotify, but now questioning the move.   I need offline and the product is a fail in that regard.

     

    Android 14 on a Samsung S22u, with tons of storage.  

     

     

    Roadie
    February 24, 2025

    Have same problem now and this is really annoying. Any solution?

    Roadie
    March 8, 2025

    Having exactly the same problem, not long changed phone and tablet now albums that were fully downloaded on old devices are missing tracks, also all my albums are now not in alphabetical order as they were, absolute pain in the a*** . Using app version 8.0.33.3 on both Google pixel tablet and Google pixel 9 pro 

    Roadie
    March 25, 2025

    +1

    New to the app and very frustrated by this issue. Still in trial mode so thinking of moving to another app that respects artists better than Spotify ….

     

    GropplerZorn
    Superuser
    Superuser
    March 25, 2025

    hey there ​@Rodrigue Ndangwituze 

    I typically only download a couple albums as a backup plan for dead spots, so I may not be the norm (although I find the OP’s downloading of 350 albums to be nothing short of wild, and I can’t think of a single use case for that to be necessary).

    That said, I have had the “half the playlist showing as downloaded” issue crop up from time to time, and I’ve found that the solution Leonidia presented above (specifically just closing the app and restarting after downloading my music) works for me. It’s obviously not ideal, but I feel like it’s a minor inconvenience at most.

    Also, it’s not just artists that deezer shows more respect for, it’s music itself.

    Deezer Legend
    Roadie
    March 25, 2025

    Hey ​@GropplerZorn , thanks for your feedback. I already tested different tips including yours and it works for some tracks in the same playlist, not for others. Totally random. This is really not serious from Deezer as I can see the issue exists since more than a year! I’m not trying to get my complete collection offline but only some playlists that I like to have on plane.

    Shame.

    One Hit Wonder
    March 28, 2025

    I’ve had this recently too. 
    I had enough space on my phone, but I removed a fair few collections from Downloads and tried again. No luck. So reinstalled the app. Tried to download a couple of albums/playlists and I get the green arrow for 2 or 3 tracks, and that’s it. 
    I like to download things so I don’t have to use data, so this is a major issue for me. 

    Help, Deezer??

    Roadie
    June 19, 2025

    I am too getting this error. Download just stops midway everytime. Tried wifi, mobile data, clearing app data, deleting and restarting downloads, reinstalling. Samsung S22+ android 15. 

    Guitar Hero
    June 30, 2025

    This app has serious problems, deezer doesn't care. It says don't use it if you're not happy. I can't download music and I always get the same standard answers. 

    Guitar Hero
    September 27, 2025

    I was able to workaround the download issue if I restart my phone and set my phone display for 30 mins to keep the deezer app opened. Downloads seem to work, but if I add a song to any downloaded playlist it wont download. I've removed the download tag and redownloaded the playlist with the new songs but those song will not download. This app is a pos and its obvious Deezer does not read these posts (there are several copy posts of this issue in their own forums). I’ve spent so much time in the mobile app and on the pc software with issues that if I cant get their stuff to stop bugging out on me I’ll move at the end of the subscription.