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  • January 10, 2023
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Is it worth switching to Deezer?

Best answer by jerrygen

Hi Vidalcora,

If you’re already a long-time Spotify user, switching to Deezer really comes down to what you value most in a streaming app. Spotify has the edge when it comes to playlists, discovery features like Discover Weekly, and things like Blend or Wrapped that make the experience feel more social and fun. If those are important to you, you might feel like Deezer is a step down.

On the other hand, Deezer does a few things really well too. Their “Flow” feature is great for continuous personalized mixes, and they also support lossless audio (HiFi) on most plans, which Spotify still hasn’t rolled out fully. If you’re into higher sound quality and a simpler interface, that might make Deezer worth trying.

Library size is pretty comparable—both have over 90 million tracks—so you won’t miss much music either way. The biggest difference is really in features and how each app “feels” to use. Some people prefer Deezer’s clean, no-fuss layout, while others like Spotify’s focus on discovery and podcasts.

If you’re curious, I’d say try Deezer’s free trial for a couple of weeks. You’ll know pretty quickly if it fits your listening style better than Spotify, and you don’t have to lose your playlists in the process since there are transfer tools that can move them over.

Regards

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  • August 22, 2025

Hi Vidalcora,

If you’re already a long-time Spotify user, switching to Deezer really comes down to what you value most in a streaming app. Spotify has the edge when it comes to playlists, discovery features like Discover Weekly, and things like Blend or Wrapped that make the experience feel more social and fun. If those are important to you, you might feel like Deezer is a step down.

On the other hand, Deezer does a few things really well too. Their “Flow” feature is great for continuous personalized mixes, and they also support lossless audio (HiFi) on most plans, which Spotify still hasn’t rolled out fully. If you’re into higher sound quality and a simpler interface, that might make Deezer worth trying.

Library size is pretty comparable—both have over 90 million tracks—so you won’t miss much music either way. The biggest difference is really in features and how each app “feels” to use. Some people prefer Deezer’s clean, no-fuss layout, while others like Spotify’s focus on discovery and podcasts.

If you’re curious, I’d say try Deezer’s free trial for a couple of weeks. You’ll know pretty quickly if it fits your listening style better than Spotify, and you don’t have to lose your playlists in the process since there are transfer tools that can move them over.

Regards


  • Guitar Hero
  • August 29, 2025

I'm considering going back to spotify; Deezer as of now does not allows you to actually enjoy its 90M wide whole catalog due to the favorite limit : its main Flow features simply break once you reach 10k likes. 

Also Deezer doesn't have song-specific radios to explore and discover similar artists / subgenres around an interesting track, which is a bit disappointing. I would have expected Flow's discovery mode to be more flexible and useable on specific tracks.

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  • Roadie
  • August 29, 2025

I'm considering going back to spotify; Deezer as of now does not allows you to actually enjoy its 90M wide whole catalog due to the favorite limit : its main Flow features simply break once you reach 10k likes. 

Also Deezer doesn't have song-specific radios to explore and discover similar artists / subgenres around an interesting track, which is a bit disappointing. I would have expected Flow's discovery mode to be more flexible and useable on specific tracks.

Related Feedback : 

 

Maybe you can try :

  • the Mix inspired by … feature (available on the homepage, based on your favorites or recent discoveries on Deezer for the selection of seed tracks), or launch a Track Mix from a specific song, at the bottom of your screen you’ll see the option to start it ? It’s both designed to stay within the same subgenres or vibes as the seed track.
  • You can also start an Artist Mix from an artist page, which recommends similar artists mixed with content from the selected artist ? Or Similar Artists section on artist pages too.

  • Guitar Hero
  • August 30, 2025

I'm considering going back to spotify; Deezer as of now does not allows you to actually enjoy its 90M wide whole catalog due to the favorite limit : its main Flow features simply break once you reach 10k likes. 

Also Deezer doesn't have song-specific radios to explore and discover similar artists / subgenres around an interesting track, which is a bit disappointing. I would have expected Flow's discovery mode to be more flexible and useable on specific tracks.

Related Feedback : 

 

Maybe you can try :

  • the Mix inspired by … feature (available on the homepage, based on your favorites or recent discoveries on Deezer for the selection of seed tracks), or launch a Track Mix from a specific song, at the bottom of your screen you’ll see the option to start it ? It’s both designed to stay within the same subgenres or vibes as the seed track.
  • You can also start an Artist Mix from an artist page, which recommends similar artists mixed with content from the selected artist ? Or Similar Artists section on artist pages too.

 

The launch Track Mix is the closest feature to match spotify's Track's Radio, but it forces you to reset your current queue, you can't just preview the associated tracks and create a more granular queue of selected tracks from multiple mixes

In my use-case, I use track radios to either :

  • quickly craft queues, generally on-the-fly, from a known point A to another point B through similar tracks I am familiar with, to transition smoothly from start to finish; For this, the current queue must stay independent to allow drilling from radio to radio without losing progress. Deezer's Track Mix takes over the entire queue when you want to access the Track's Mix, which kills the whole process.
  • Explore similar albeit extremely niche / underground landscapes, from unknown artists or very niche / empty sub-sub-subgenres or distant geographical markets. Deezer's Track Mix does not recommend anything, given a globally obscure enough sub-sub-sub-genre [1], or obscure enough track for the user's current geographical market trends. [2]


Exploring Similar Artists is useful to find very similar / fan-adjacent stuff, but that's very limiting and hides away similar yet unconventional and interesting gems behind popularity metrics (most popular tracks, number of fans...), and pre-generated Mixes are not flexible enough neither for active exploration. Because they also often gravitate too much around popular / renowned / already liked tracks.


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[1] Deezer provides totally empty Track Mixes for "Relaxing Train Sounds", by Train Sounds; which is a very small niche, alongside other kinds of sleeping-relaxing oriented soundscapes (like white noises, brown noises, ...) mostly filled by SFX producers targeting very specific ambiences. I'd expect the Track Mix to provide a sample of neighbouring subgenres given too few similar tracks.

[2] The same problem arises for tracks from foreign markets like "Orang Tua Radikal" by Teh Tarik Senja, a Malaysian Rock artist. The Track Mix is totally empty on my side. This is particularly frustrating, because I'd expect the Track Mix to explore similar tracks from the malaysian musical industry, and serve as a gate to surface into their local / historical soundscapes.