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No gapless play on Hi-fi for Windows users

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
September 1, 2021
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I pay for Hi-Fi and am using Windows 10. I can’t listen to a long piece of music without silence injected right in the middle of a song. That is a deal breaker for me, especially since I see that a year ago this question was addressed and dismissed as something being introduced slowly, first for iPhone users. A year later, and there is still no gapless play at your most expensive service. Windows users are 75% of the market. I can’t understand what you don’t understand about the business potential of your service. This service could be my go-to library for all listening in my house. It’s a thousands-album library that, if you could design it properly, be listened to in any way my imagination could devise.

I could list a dozen problems with Deezer for Windows browser and desktop, but you’d have to pay me to be that useful to you. I’m out. I’ll check out Tidal, I guess. I think that’s the only other Hi-Fi service.

Maybe, if this could get back to an administrator, they could put me on an email list to contact when gapless play is enabled. If that happens, I would be glad to resume my subscription.

Best answer by dgoorevitch

Gapless for desktop has started being developed since the end of last year @dgoorevitch but we've had some delays because we realised the desktop app at that moment wasn't totally ready for it. So we updated the framework we used for the app in the following months into 2021 and have then picked up gapless again. Development has been ongoing, there's no need to worry about being added to the roadmap, for example.

So our teams are confident this can be a reality by the end of this year, together with crossfade - if everything goes as planned, right.

This is the most transparent and genuine response I can give to you, plain simple. The gapless feature is a must for me too, personally. And I'm crazy about the desktop app, so I've been following this quite closely here at Deezer. I've got my fingers crossed, so I can't ask you to check this with us by subscribing to a topic or checking the community homepage :relaxed:

PLEASE don’t allow crossfade and if you do, please make it optional. Crossfade would be poison to opera fans.

The good news is that there is a workaround, which should have been in the “answer” (which was a dismissal, not an answer). Install Bluestacks, open it and open Play Store. Install Deezer. Now you can have the Android version inside Windows and you can listen to opera (or other long pieces divided into many tracks) without gaps. For settings you can’t find in the program, install Hidden Settings from Google Play too.

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dgoorevitchAuthorAnswer

Hitmaker

Gapless for desktop has started being developed since the end of last year @dgoorevitch but we've had some delays because we realised the desktop app at that moment wasn't totally ready for it. So we updated the framework we used for the app in the following months into 2021 and have then picked up gapless again. Development has been ongoing, there's no need to worry about being added to the roadmap, for example.

So our teams are confident this can be a reality by the end of this year, together with crossfade - if everything goes as planned, right.

This is the most transparent and genuine response I can give to you, plain simple. The gapless feature is a must for me too, personally. And I'm crazy about the desktop app, so I've been following this quite closely here at Deezer. I've got my fingers crossed, so I can't ask you to check this with us by subscribing to a topic or checking the community homepage :relaxed:

PLEASE don’t allow crossfade and if you do, please make it optional. Crossfade would be poison to opera fans.

The good news is that there is a workaround, which should have been in the “answer” (which was a dismissal, not an answer). Install Bluestacks, open it and open Play Store. Install Deezer. Now you can have the Android version inside Windows and you can listen to opera (or other long pieces divided into many tracks) without gaps. For settings you can’t find in the program, install Hidden Settings from Google Play too.

dgoorevitchAuthor

Hitmaker

Hello everyone, yes unfortunately gapless it’s not yet available on the desktop app. Our team has decided to prioritise other features first.

Thank you so much for your patience.

https://en.deezercommunity.com/members/yula-57337 This is not an answer. Please unmark it as answered. It is a dismissal. A better answer is below:

Here is the answer for now. A workaround. Install Bluestacks, open it and open Play Store. Install Deezer. Now you can have the Android version inside Windows and you can listen to opera (or other long pieces divided into many tracks) without gaps. For settings you can’t find in the program, install Hidden Settings from Google Play too.

Please mark the above workaround as the answer.

Yula

Deezer Staff

Hello @dgoorevitch, well I can’t now advise to use other apps that we don’t support officially.

But thank you so much for providing a workaround!

(She/her) add your pronouns to your signature!

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mardon85

Guitar Hero

Gapless for desktop has started being developed since the end of last year @dgoorevitch but we've had some delays because we realised the desktop app at that moment wasn't totally ready for it. So we updated the framework we used for the app in the following months into 2021 and have then picked up gapless again. Development has been ongoing, there's no need to worry about being added to the roadmap, for example.

So our teams are confident this can be a reality by the end of this year, together with crossfade - if everything goes as planned, right.

This is the most transparent and genuine response I can give to you, plain simple. The gapless feature is a must for me too, personally. And I'm crazy about the desktop app, so I've been following this quite closely here at Deezer. I've got my fingers crossed, so I can't ask you to check this with us by subscribing to a topic or checking the community homepage :relaxed:

PLEASE don’t allow crossfade and if you do, please make it optional. Crossfade would be poison to opera fans.

The good news is that there is a workaround, which should have been in the “answer” (which was a dismissal, not an answer). Install Bluestacks, open it and open Play Store. Install Deezer. Now you can have the Android version inside Windows and you can listen to opera (or other long pieces divided into many tracks) without gaps. For settings you can’t find in the program, install Hidden Settings from Google Play too.

Wow this works thank you so much!!

dgoorevitchAuthor

Hitmaker

Hello @dgoorevitch, well I can’t now advise to use other apps that we don’t support officially.

But thank you so much for providing a workaround!

Understood. We still need the desktop/web version to allow gapless play. My windows remote control works with Windows, not Android. It’s just a workaround.

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mardon85

Guitar Hero

Hello @dgoorevitch, well I can’t now advise to use other apps that we don’t support officially.

But thank you so much for providing a workaround!

Understood. We still need the desktop/web version to allow gapless play. My windows remote control works with Windows, not Android. It’s just a workaround.

Agreed, although it is a stop gap I can’t pause with the media controls on my keyboard. Also the required app is around 400Mb which isn’t ideal.

dgoorevitchAuthor

Hitmaker

Hello @dgoorevitch, well I can’t now advise to use other apps that we don’t support officially.

But thank you so much for providing a workaround!

Understood. We still need the desktop/web version to allow gapless play. My windows remote control works with Windows, not Android. It’s just a workaround.

Agreed, although it is a stop gap I can’t pause with the media controls on my keyboard. Also the required app is around 400Mb which isn’t ideal.

Which required app?

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mardon85

Guitar Hero

Hello @dgoorevitch, well I can’t now advise to use other apps that we don’t support officially.

But thank you so much for providing a workaround!

Understood. We still need the desktop/web version to allow gapless play. My windows remote control works with Windows, not Android. It’s just a workaround.

Agreed, although it is a stop gap I can’t pause with the media controls on my keyboard. Also the required app is around 400Mb which isn’t ideal.

Which required app?

BluestackX is 405mb

dgoorevitchAuthor

Hitmaker

Hello @dgoorevitch, well I can’t now advise to use other apps that we don’t support officially.

But thank you so much for providing a workaround!

Understood. We still need the desktop/web version to allow gapless play. My windows remote control works with Windows, not Android. It’s just a workaround.

Agreed, although it is a stop gap I can’t pause with the media controls on my keyboard. Also the required app is around 400Mb which isn’t ideal.

Which required app?

BluestackX is 405mb

oh, i hoped there was a remote app for that size. i’d use it.

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mardon85

Guitar Hero

Hello @dgoorevitch, well I can’t now advise to use other apps that we don’t support officially.

But thank you so much for providing a workaround!

Understood. We still need the desktop/web version to allow gapless play. My windows remote control works with Windows, not Android. It’s just a workaround.

Agreed, although it is a stop gap I can’t pause with the media controls on my keyboard. Also the required app is around 400Mb which isn’t ideal.

Which required app?

BluestackX is 405mb

oh, i hoped there was a remote app for that size. i’d use it.

Its size is certainly not a game changer but would be nice not to have to worry about it.

I’ve also given 360 By Deezer a go and can confirm the spatial audio also works. I’ve got Sony WF-1000-XM4’s for use on android and the effect works just as well via my Sennheiser 6XX’s on my PC (if anything with a wider sound stage).

This is certainly not a free pass for the Deezer team but i’ll stick around for longer now.

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