Long-time Spotify Premium user - why should I move to Deezer?

Intersting. I also found another article that enlightens me a lot: Spotify vs Deezer: Which to Choose  And I prepare to move my Spotify playlist to Deezer. 

You are most welcome.

Are you going Premium or Hifi plan?

Both can be discounted annually, sonos hifi deal Deezer on their site or Annual Premium deal.

I pay for Deezer Premium €7,99 a month annually.

These deals are not Black Friday or Cyber Monday deals. These deals are on Deezer site all over the year. You can get them any time and please recommend to all your friends too. Worth it.

“Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.“ – Shania Twain

Not gonna lie, Spotify was easier…

1. I’m a last.fm freak and tracking my music habits with Spotify was smoother and way more accurate.
2. Almost any platform related to music, offers some sort of integrations with your Spotify account
3. Most of your friends are on Spotify (everyone has an account there) socialising and sharing playlists there is a joy that you can’t experience on Deezer
4. Most Artists tend to share their personal picks and playlists and generally being active there
5. The platform is constantly growing and offering new features, it’s a huge company with decent budget for recording their own special tracks with artists (Spotify singles blablabla), recording their own podcasts, offering huge range of other people’s stations and radios, etc. 

and a lot more advantages

Basically if you’re a Popular music lover and fan of mainstream stuff, you gotta be crazy to leave Spotify for anything else…

But…

If music means more than that to you, after a while you pick on

• low sound quality
• lack of expert playlists 
• Their editors’ low knowledge of different genres and their sub genres. as a results of that, their genre playlists and mixtapes are huge disappointments
• You won’t believe me but their archive lacks some special releases and albums
• you can’t change your country, so you can’t access some special editions that were released in specific areas (like, artists home countries, etc.)
• THEIR ON NERVES IGNORANCE towards feedbacks and suggestions and generally voice of users

while Deezer offer you

1. Knowledgeable editors (I PERSONALLY LOVE ADAM & ROD! Deezer’s alternative & Rock/Metal editors) who create awesome, accurate playlists and genre mixes
2. Hands down higher, better, cleaner sound quality
3. The ability to change your country / bigger album catalog
4. Unique Flow feature (you need to give it a lil time, the more you listen the smarter it gets)
5. built in musical habits analytics (your current top tracks / your top months / your top year and a brief comprehensive analysis that will be sent to you as an email)

but what Spotify and others can’t really beat is Deezer’s behaviour toward their users. Their costumer agency is fast and caring. As a beta user you can get involved in upcoming developments. They’re super open about feedback and feature requests. And above all that they’re fighting for justice in this industry!! Above all those features that other platforms can somehow offer them as well, Deezer isn’t a big company helping ‘injustice’ in pop culture or worse than that a company that ‘belongs’ to someone ‘from’ that freaking field. Or a side project of big tech names that doesn’t really care about music. I switched to deezer and sticked around because they’re passionate, caring and the catalog is CLEANER

Thank you for your detailed feedback about Deezer.

I agree on all of this, from Spotify to Deezer I’d fish faster development with less bugs when feature is online. On Deezer new can be released beta and for example it does not work well until fixed.

You are very welcome to support Deezer in the future too.

Thanks for staying around. Something new is coming to features you love ;)

Oh wow, Sara @SaraJaleh 

That's super nice of you, thank you for the feedback. It's also our aim to be smoother when it comes to features and how the app/service works. What I can't dispute, and I'm with you on that, is our passion for music and the fact we do everything having our users in mind. It's what drives everyone forward here. Don't get me wrong, it's tough! Because of our size, we're unable to provide everything our fans ask for, we need to make decisions on what comes first. But it's definitely all to please our beloved users, like you.

And I think your opinion is a true reflection of today's Deezer - and for that, it's nice to see that our care for you and everyone has come through 

It depends. Deezer likes iPhone users and if you are one, fine. If you are not, and like long pieces of music, forget it. They inject silence right in the middle of the music if the music continues through tracks, as does an opera.

I am just trialing one with 3 mo from Samsung deal.

I like Deezer, but it has too much of a bugs and in over a year as a customer things has changed, but not all bugs we reported together disappeared. I’m not going for now, but I’ve been testing out.

I hope that Deezer will improve a lot.

In my opinion you can not just sit tight for years to wait full working product when elsewhere you can find one today. It was hard decision, but I might go to tilad or spoti after my Deezer half annual free.

Especially now when they raise price to 10,99, you can get more for less or same price.

I do not pay for Deezer Hifi a dime, but even this I think is not something to make it main player.

This is Legends price. I agree with all posted here, test service one year to see if it really works for you. For me decision was hard, but it feels like posting bug reports to them does nothing as no fixes.

They did fix bugs in months, but is still quite long time to walk daily with them.

I have problems activating tilad, but I sent them a Request.

Also I must say I do not like design of Web App of Deezer, especially the profile with all these tabs I never use and Android Offline not loading. Countless reports by me. It feels sad, I’ve posted about that too, but nothing is yet changed. FLOW plays the same music I heard daily from it already. No variety by now. I am literally at the point that I am willing to pay for a service that works better for me. The offline download problem is on Android for months now also reported by users, not just me and we still can’t see a proper fix for that. When core features, eg the point to subscribe does not work, it’s very funny. You do this or that just to Download playlist Offline full. It takes days and all these workarounds, elsewhere you update playlist and it is update on phone same second. On Deezer you go from app, close it, clear cache, just to get basics work. It’s sad and I tried to let them know as we Legends are to do, with no one to fix. When problem is when devs have time to do, I feel sad to search options. Again, it’s not to make bad day for everyone, I am just tired of bugs much.

I’d really like to stay longer, but with this much bugs, I’ll test for a while elsewhere.

Now as you see I get Deezer Hifi Family for free Legends price.

It’s fine as long as you do not want anything fancy. Apps not equivalent to features.

This all is what makes me going elsewhere, at least for main player :)

Let's hope Deezer wakes up and starts doing something, because if Deezer Legend leaves to compete, it would be a real shame for Deezer...

All you say is true. A year ago, someone said they were “working on” gapless play. They’re not serious.

They won’t wake up. Look at the chatboards.