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

Currently trialling Deezer (coming from Spotify).

You can do something like Flow in Spotify. If you integrate Spotify with Last.fm, you can then get Last.fm to play random music through Spotify based on your (or others) previous listening habits. Can be a bit temperamental though.

Personally here to try out the lossless audio. I am also hoping the devs are a bit more responsive here...

About UCPS. And this is my honest opinion about it.

That is a very good implementation and probably the least intrusive one possible. I hope that Spotify and other competitors will do it in a similar fashion. We need to make our music compensated.

From favourites to our night time discoverings. This idea is actually top notch to stay 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. 

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

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 

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 :)

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

Gapeless is available on mobile .

Not interested in listening to gapless on mobile. I want to use this as a home stereo libray/player. But I

l’ll try it right now.

I agree and want to add that, for me, beyond relaxation, music is a professional necessity. As an artist and sometimes self-taught composer, arranger, lyricist, and performer, its beyond vital. It’s part of the language I speak. It’s a cornerstone of the culture we live in. When I listen to Don Carlo and there’s an interruption in the middle of an aria, it’s like spit in my soul. How can I really open up if I know I’m going to be spit on. This may seem overly dramatic to you but, believe me, for me it’s quite real and an accurate depiction of the events.

You too :(

It is sad in a way, but these bugs simply do matter. You try to clear cache and make a workaround for Offline lists to download fully. I found swipe down works when I simply do that on list so it does two things. Offline playlists loads the rest not yet downloaded if you can not wait days and updated playlist counts on Android (track amount). I do that daily. Have been reported with no avail or timeline for a fix. Eventually you just get to the head with it. You need to use your brain how to make Deezer work better. I wanted to stay and see longer, but how much longer until you get the basics that works.

Offline works so poorly I stopped using offline with Deezer.

Widget does not display artist image, reported many times, still no progress in months.

From my observation I see no reason to stay, as it does not work as I wanted him to work.

I tried my best to post them issues, as well artist releases on wrong pages, wrong artist listings (like no releases when there should be). This is not an issue elsewhere and it shouldn’t be our work to let someone know that on this page there’s 10 releases missing from artist repertoire.

I’ll save so much time transferring once again.

Just because I am legends doesn’t mean I have no opinion.

Logan, if you want to talk more, do PM and I’ll give you my mail!

It’s true that Spotify scrobbling is a bit easier to use than the internal Deezer scrobbling option, but there are workarounds for most of the issues, as you might already know. If not, check the Deezer Scrobbling FAQ on the Last.fm support forum. The good thing is that it also works in the desktop app, web player and mobile apps like Spotify. Furthermore Spotify scrobbling also has problems which can get on your nerves, too.