Skip to main content
Jaime.Deezer
Community Manager
Community Manager
June 11, 2020
Feedback

Windows/Mac Deezer Desktop/Web App - Feedback for improvements

  • June 11, 2020
  • 334 replies
  • 7985 views
Windows/Mac Deezer Desktop/Web App - Feedback for improvements

 

Our Desktop/Web app can improve, and we need your help :desktop:

This is the space for all those improvement calls you kindly make to us when looking at how to make our desktop and web apps better platforms.

What should I post here? :thinking:

  • if the app needs User Interface or User Experience (UI/UX) enhancements, let us know
  • if the app should be compatible with certain devices or audio outputs, we're with you
  • if there's a cool integration we should consider, shout out
  • and if any feature is missing, don't forget to mention

This topic is intended for version 4.20.0 and above, and for our browser version :floppy_disk:

334 replies

Rudi
Ultimate Superstar
Ultimate Superstar
July 12, 2021

I decided to keep that topic alive too @golimpio, because our Deezer Legend continued the discussion with you there. Hopefully our team can sort this out int he near future!

STeeL835
Rising Star
Rising Star
July 12, 2021

I think player panel needs a rework

 

What is it playing right now?

 

Rudi
Ultimate Superstar
Ultimate Superstar
July 13, 2021

Thanks @STeeL835 

Could you please be more specific? What do you think we can improve on?

STeeL835
Rising Star
Rising Star
July 13, 2021

Thanks @STeeL835 

Could you please be more specific? What do you think we can improve on?


I see you are tweaking deezer’ appearance little by little, so I think you can improve the layout of this panel too, giving more focus on essential elements like media buttons, seekbar and the main info about the current track. The problem on the screenshot is that it gets many elements in such a way that you can’t see even 1 character of a track name. And the screenshot isn’t even that narrow (though it is minimal width for the app as of now).

Probably, make it responsive by moving/regrouping/hiding elements in popups/menus, reducing paddings as panel gets smaller and smaller.

I’m not a designer, but I tried to make something that would fit more things, just for example. Not insisting on it, but just to show some ideas.

It’s more dense, but has room for track info, volume slider, bigger track cover, bigger seekbar (with less screaming default color), and queue source. Clicking track cover could open the queue panel.
Seekbars here don’t have color only because I chose these whitish covers
Rudi
Ultimate Superstar
Ultimate Superstar
July 14, 2021

Love the designs @STeeL835 so glad I actually asked you for more detail :heart_eyes:

I've passed this on, thanks a lot! Hopefully it can be made a reality.

Hitmaker
August 5, 2021

I got a small annoyance. The notification in the upper right corner (e.g. “We won’t recommend you this track anymore”) is covering the arrow that closes the song queue. And when you’re browsing something else, you can’t press “Don’t recommend” for the track that’s currently playing without opening the queue. So you have to open it, then you have to wait for the notification to disappear before you close the queue.

Rudi
Ultimate Superstar
Ultimate Superstar
August 7, 2021

Oooh, we like these ones @Gaffer13 the small annoyances can perhaps be sorted quickly. Thank you for reporting it and explaining it in detail! :relaxed:

JohnyV3
Hitmaker
Hitmaker
August 25, 2021

To be honest I don't know if someone post it before but can we expect a "Share" button on bottom next to "Lyrics", "Add to playlist" etc.?

Rudi
Ultimate Superstar
Ultimate Superstar
August 26, 2021

It's currently not on the plans but this week I was missing that button myself - so I agree it makes total sense to have it. Instead, we currently have to access the queue for that @JohnyV3 

So thanks for your feedback, I'll be discussing this further with the teams and will use your comment to leverage a need for this to be looked into :wink:

Hitmaker
August 31, 2021

One thing I find a little annoying in the web version is tab title changing to the name of the currently playing song on tabs that aren’t playing the song. So if you opened two more Deezer tabs, e.g. with artists you wanted to check out later, all three tabs will have the same title, but only one tab will have a running player. These days it’s not a big problem because the browser will display the sound icon on the tab that’s actually playing the song. But it’s still a bit confusing, and it’s not like you can just use any tab to control playback - the player will show warnings about not listening from more than one device.