Logitech is closing mysqueezebox servers

FYI I created a topic on the French Community site (including an english version) :

https://fr.deezercommunity.com/ideas/api-exhaustives-pour-plugin-lms-et-autres-egalement-pour-des-fonctionnalites-iso-app-smartphone-sur-tout-type-de-systemes-rpi-squeezebox-squeezelite-musiccast-heos-wiim-bluesound-42963

Hi @Cedzerosept thanks for sharing that link from the French Community. I have just shared it with our product team.

Thanks tooo @Ti No I do understand that many users have been building through these years an ecosystem to hardware and software to get the best audio and video quality.

@coypu about your question, yes, it is refereeing to security issues as we will need to open a door to allow the integration of a plugin. 

As this is impacting hundreds or even thousands of users, we are accessing if we have the bandwidth to do it in first place, what resources are necessary. 

For sure a collaboration with Logitech would make total sense, but that is already above my knowledge for now.

I will keep everybody update as news are shared with me.

@Leonídia.Deezer ... thank you for your efforts in progressing this and keeping the community informed. 

Hi Leonidia, ditto what t1no said.

Many thanks @Leonídia.Deezer 

I am not really sure that our wish implies new security questions / issues.

Indeed, Deezer is used to communicate with different third party audio systems like Sonos, Bluesound…

Moreover If we focus on Squeezebox/Squeezelite players, currently and still for a few days to come, Deezer ‘communicates’ with the LMS “mysqueezebox.com” servers. So not sure that it will be so different with the wished plugin. And not really sure that what is wanted from Deezer is a plugin because it seems that the “community” has talented people able to develop a plugin (Michael Herger, Philippe44 on the slimdevices forum). What is probably more a necessity is what I summarized in the thread I wrote and which you forwarded to your product team (i.e. exhaustives and accessibles API).

Offering exhaustives and accessibles API will satisfy users :

• of third party audio systems (Sonos, Bluesound, Wiim, Heos, MusicCast...) because it will allow to benefit from the same level of functionalities as on the Smartphone/Tablet App.
• of Squeezebox / Squeezelite (allowing to use Raspberry Pi as a player for example) allowing them to continue to access to the Deezer service

For Deezer it’s a differentiator and a way to satisfy its customers and also to keep them.

Hi Cedzerosept,

I think what I can gather from your post is that LMS needs a new developed plugin that will work with Deezer as the present one will no longer work as the mysqueezebox server is closing down very soon.

I would imagine most Deezer subscribers that have a Raspberry Pi use LMS running picoreplayer as a means of accessing their Deezer account. I think this is the sticking point of creating a new API, it will still need authentication to gain access to your Deezer account  hence the security issues. But I’m sure this can be overcome by the VERY clever people at Logitech.

I recently purchased a Wiim Pro which is a great bit of kit, Deezer works great on it but the app can’t be used on your PC if you run Linux…..I believe it will run on Windows but there is no app’s available as of yet.

I like to use my PC rather than use a mobile phone or a tablet to access these applications, but I appreciate I am probably in the minority on this one.

Cheers

coypu

Hi all,

Check out link below…….interesting stuff.

Update: UESmartRadio.com and MySqueezebox.com

https://forums.slimdevices.com/forum/user-forums/general-discussion/1678594-update-uesmartradio-com-and-mysqueezebox-com

I am precisely using a Raspberry with piCorePlayer.

PiCorePlayer is based on a very small Linux Distribution which is piCore Linux. It includes Squeezelite, a software that emulates a Squeezebox (Logitech's historical music player last sold more than 10 years ago). Squeezelite also exists for other plateform (PC for ex.).

Logitech Media Server (LMS) is the server software that powers networked audio players from Logitech (historical Squeezebox players) and also the emulated ones. You can install LMS on a NAS, a PC, a Raspberry at home. If you have for ex. a PC with music files and LMS installed on it (a local LMS) and squeezebox devices, you will be able to play the music files on your squeezebox and also access to on-line music services (configured on your local LMS). Logitech also runs on-line LMS (~ mysqueezebox.com), probably the only LMS available at the begining (you were buying Squeezebox devices and only using the on-line LMS), today used to access to on-line music services thar are not accessible via a local LMS (currently the case for Deezer).

And mysqueezebox.com currently communicates with Deezer to allow the squeezebox  / Squeezelite users access to the Deezer service.

Logitech decided to stop running the mysqueezebox.com servers…

So the goal is to be able to access to the Deezer service via local LMS knowing that a community is maintaining the LMS software.

I am not sure that this implies new Deeze API.

It's perhaps a matter of authorizations from Deezer to access to the audio flows / the appropriated API from the local LMS. An expert would be able to confirm.

What I have understood is that the Public API only allow to access to metadata within an Internet brosser.

For People using third party audio system (Squeezebox, Wiim, Sonos, Bluesound, Heos, MusicCast...), you have seen that fonctionalities are really limited compared to what you have with the smartphone/tablet Deezer App. To get the same level of functionalities, it implies that Deezer develops a larger set of API. This is also what I am asking for.