Why is Deezer missing albums or entire disographies? The claim about a larger music library seems a bit deceptive.

Bob Seger is the obvious one, there are albums missing from The Yardbirds, The Zombies, Frank Zappa, The Meat Puppets and The Hoodoo Guru’s. And I’d like to know why when they’re available everywhere else. That my missing list currently stands a little over 30 compared to Amazon which is over 80 and Qobuz well over 100 

​@streaming.steve 

the tl;dr is that streaming rights are not static: they are constantly being renegotiated among streaming platforms, regions, and even tiers within individual platforms.

the longer version is here

no single service has all music available. at least you can be confident that deezer won’t have musicians leaving and taking their music with them for ethical reasons, which seems to be a consistent issue elsewhere.

The upside is that missing music is often a temporary situation.

you obviously left Spotify for a reason. there are tradeoffs with every service and we all need to find the sweet spot for ourselves with a streaming service. perhaps you will find that the features and feel that deezer provides works for you, perhaps not.

best of luck with whatever you decide and thanks for giving deezer a try.

The albums I noticed are missing, i don’t see any reason why Deezer can’t have them if every other streaming service does, we’re not talking Garth Brooks who is exclusive to Amaazon but Bob Seger is on every other streaming service. So Deezer need to get their catalogue team working with the labels to ger these albums online and filling in the gaps on other artist’s back catalogues

​@GropplerZorn 

Apologies for the delayed reply and thank you for your detailed response - I sincerely appreciate it.

I dig Deezer despite the catalogue variance. As a music platform it’s superior to Spotify and this doesn’t even include military drone investment as a variable. I even made a blog post on Substack about leaving Spotify for Deezer.

Thanks again for the engagement! I’ll have my fingers crossed for Bob Seger and ​@lady_raven ‘s artist catalogues that she’s looking for, too.

Cheers!

I have used Deezer for a long time now and I have been a premium member for the past years and this has been a problem from day one. 

I even made a list many years ago with all missing albums by my favourite artists and I can tell you it was quite a big one. But I checked in my Spotify account and with many of my colleagues using other platforms like tidal and those albums were missing in actually most of those platforms as well. So we all assumed it was just a matter of licences and problems with the record labels.

However, this has changed during the past year and many of those missing albums have been added to all the other platforms. I even noticed recently that many albums in my favourite list and many others within some of my playlists are now gone! Some artists actually had most of their discography gone completely (A.C.T for example just to name one). They are mostly quite famous albums, nothing weird or fancy and can be found with no problem in any other platform (like Saxon main albums) so this is becoming quite annoying now. Not only are we missing albums for a long time, but we are now missing albums that were always available. I even started to listen to Spotify often now when I want to listen to some of those albums. But this doesn't make sense at all since I'm paying my subscription to Deezer and I have to listen to ads in Spotify with a much worse audio quality. 

I really hope this situation can be reverted soon because I'm quite happy with Deezer in general and its sound quality and I don't really want a change but if we start missing too much It will not make sense to keep paying for a much more limited service