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Gapless Playback on desktop app

  • November 8, 2023
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To reiterate:

 

“Gapless playback” is when certain tracks within an album have no pause between them when one track ends and the next one starts. Some music genres like prog and electronic stuff rely heavily on this feature and mix their albums as one continuous track, and it is instrumental (no pun intended) for proper listening experience. For examples try Pink Floyds Dark Side of the Moon or Colors by Between the Buried and Me. This is not the same thing as crossfade as some people on forums suggest as an alternative. The lack of this basic feature means that the app is unusable for people who lean heavily into genres utilizing this technique, they cannot listen to their favorite albums on your platform as the lack of gapless breaks the experience. And since desktop app might be the go-to way to experience Deezer on a stationary device, your business loses a swathe of customers.

 

Now the problem is that Deezer has Gapless on Android, iOS and in web player, but still does not have one in their windows app. Not sure about other desktop systems but here we are. Some time ago someone mentioned that Deezer desktop app is on life support and the company is ditching it but now we have a full redesign of the platform and a new updated desktop app. Still no goddamn gapless playback.

 

Ideas thread with 6 years worth of comments and upvotes is ignored, no updates on the feature whatsoever. There are workarounds to get gapless on desktop but that’s doing hoops to get what everyone considers to be the basic music player functionality. Even web player, which is pretty much a copy of desktop app in terms of UI has gapless but not the damn app.

 

It makes me unreasonably mad and I am probably a clown for making such a long ramble of a post, but I want to hijack the increased forum activity due to the redesign releaseand just try to get some attention from Deezer staff. At least tell me that you won’t work on it so I can stop reinstalling the app every month to see if you finally made it.

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Jaime.Deezer
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  • Jaime.Deezer
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  • November 12, 2023

Thanks for your honest feedback @PotatoOverlord. I am not a developer myself and I don’t have an immediate answer to your question about Gapless and Desktop app.
I’ll contact our developers and as soon as I hear back from them I’ll update you.
Thanks for your patience :)

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Leonídia.Deezer
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  • Geolog
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  • November 12, 2023

When I play an “album” it should sound like the album. No question.

NOBODY really gives a s%#*. Remember that and your life will be less stressful (unless of course YOU do :-)
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@Jaime. Any update on this? I have been looking forward to gapless playback from Deezer for a long time.

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  • zx6dude
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  • January 3, 2025

​@Jaime.Deezer any update on this please? 

Surely 1 year on the developers have replied? Even if it is with “We aren’t planning on fixing this because…”

Even a negative answer is better than being ignored.

Its bizarre that gapless works on a browser but not on the app.

I have left Spotify because they are very good at ignoring their customers, I wasn’t expecting Deezer to be the same.

Leonídia.Deezer
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Hi ​@PotatoOverlord ​@Geolog ​@Audiophile92 ​@zx6dude! I will reach out to our developers again to get an update on this feature, and as soon as I have any news, I’ll be sure to share it with you.

Thanks for your patience.

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  • LemonKid
  • Roadie
  • January 30, 2025

The lack of progress on this issue is why I will not be subscribing to Deezer once my one-month trial ends.

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  • bronlund
  • Roadie
  • May 4, 2025

It boggles the mind that this feature isn’t already in there - a long time ago. I have been clicking around for a while now before I did a web search and came here.

 

How about Deezer setting their AI research on hold for a whole 5 minutes and implements this ASAP?

 

 

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  • FTR
  • Roadie
  • July 31, 2025

Any news on this? Seems like you guys really need some time for the implementation of this feature, though … Thx for an update on this matter

Jaime.Deezer
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  • Jaime.Deezer
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  • July 31, 2025

Hi, I don’t have any update or ETA for gapless playback on the desktop app.
Thanks and apologies for the inconvenience.

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  • Camyron
  • Guitar Hero
  • August 14, 2025

To add to this, on the android app which people in this thread are mentioning does have gapless playback, it's too aggressive - I'm listening to The Hazards of Love by The Decemberists and the last ~half second of each track is being cut off to start the next track. 

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  • PotatoOverlord
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  • September 10, 2025

Lol, another year rolls by and still no gapless on desktop app. By this point it’s a bit silly even 🤡

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  • Megabyte
  • Roadie
  • October 11, 2025

I just dropped Spotify for this service and finding out this is not a feature in the desktop app not being a option is very very disappointing and actually has me possibly looking for another service. 

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  • clover
  • Roadie
  • October 31, 2025

I’ve also dropped Spotify for Deezer and I’m going to have a hard time recommending this service to friends if there isn’t any real update about this feature *soon*. 
I just don’t understand how this isn’t available yet to all.

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  • adrienh
  • Guitar Hero
  • November 6, 2025

What’s the purpose of a desktop app if it cannot play songs correctly?

Could we have an update on this?

Jaime.Deezer
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  • Jaime.Deezer
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  • November 9, 2025

I understand your frustration ​but there’s no ETA right now.

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