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June 11, 2020
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Windows/Mac Deezer Desktop/Web App - Feedback for improvements

  • June 11, 2020
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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

Guitar Hero
December 18, 2021

I would love it if when you're a minute, minute and 45 seconds, 2 minutes, 2.5 etc. into a song, and you press the back/replay button, it starts from the beginning of that same song again and not completely go back to the previous song. You can do this on mobile but not the desktop, and it's quite annoying.

Also, the progress bar of the current song playing does not work on touchscreen devices. I can't manually go back x amount of seconds or minutes,

 

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Roadie
December 21, 2021

I have a suggestion for Deezer on a MAC (desktop app or web version); it would be nice to have the ability to side-swipe when browsing! This is kind of stupid to click on the little side arrows when you want to navigate left/right!

You cannot believe how many times, I just side-swipe on my Magic Trackpad, to be like aarrrrgh…:angry: I need to click on that little icon <>.

You can already navigate up/down & left/right on a phone, so implementation should be a no-brainer.

 

Like this post, if you like this idea!:thumbsup:

Yula
Deezer Staff
Deezer Staff
December 22, 2021

Thank you everybody for the feedbacks! 

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December 29, 2021

Windows app: could you make it so pressing space whenever the app is focused pauses/resumes the current track?

Right now it only works if I click on the app first (so not if I’ve alt-tabbed into it, for example), at which point I might as well just click the pause/play button.

Roadie
January 3, 2022

Having to click the “play button” in web app?

 

Hello, lately it seems that the possibility to play songs by just double clicking them has dissappeared, meaning I now have to hover over the album picture to press the play button. This makes it harder to use in my mind, just clicking on the row/blank space to play is often times a lot faster. 

 

Apparently this is only when clicking in a playlist, not in albums or artist profiles etc.

Roadie
January 20, 2022

I’ve just heard the advert for kid ink for the 3rd time in about 30 minutes.  This genre so so far removed from whet I listen to I find the advert impossible to listen to.  Rather than persuading me to subscribe, it’s had the opposite effect and I am going to listen to another app instead.  

I love the Deezer app, but the ads are becoming too invasive too loud and too often.

Hitmaker
January 21, 2022

Hello,

Some thoughts on the desktop app, especially on macOS:

App framework (mostly macOS oriented)

  • It’s based on Electron, which is regrettable. We’d rather have a Mac Catalyst app (please let us run the iOS version on Apple Silicon macs at least).
  •  It’s still not compatible with Apple Silicon (M1 and the likes). Spotify is.
  • As far as I understand, it’s based on a now unsupported Electron version. The framework version reads 12.0.4 (https://www.electronjs.org/releases/stable?version=12&page=5#12.0.4), which was released on April 21st, 2021, has been superseded with numerous security updates in the v12 branch (it ended at 12.2.3 on November 15th, 2021), a branch that has reached end of support on November 16th, 2021 with the release of the v16 branch (https://www.electronjs.org/releases/stable?version=16&page=2#end-of-support-for-12xy-1600). I don’t like running apps with security issues.

App features

  • We miss a AirPlay 2 option in the app. Please bring this.
  • We miss a setting to follow the system light/dark mode.
  • We miss a way to make feedback from within the app: error on lyrics, tracks, artists or features, ideally with a follow up. 

Please make the best desktop app for the music lovers.

Best.

 

jirikovoego
Hitmaker
Hitmaker
January 22, 2022

Hello,

Some thoughts on the desktop app, especially on macOS:

App framework (mostly macOS oriented)

  • It’s based on Electron, which is regrettable. We’d rather have a Mac Catalyst app (please let us run the iOS version on Apple Silicon macs at least).
  •  It’s still not compatible with Apple Silicon (M1 and the likes). Spotify is.
  • As far as I understand, it’s based on a now unsupported Electron version. The framework version reads 12.0.4 (https://www.electronjs.org/releases/stable?version=12&page=5#12.0.4), which was released on April 21st, 2021, has been superseded with numerous security updates in the v12 branch (it ended at 12.2.3 on November 15th, 2021), a branch that has reached end of support on November 16th, 2021 with the release of the v16 branch (https://www.electronjs.org/releases/stable?version=16&page=2#end-of-support-for-12xy-1600). I don’t like running apps with security issues.

App features

  • We miss a AirPlay 2 option in the app. Please bring this.
  • We miss a setting to follow the system light/dark mode.
  • We miss a way to make feedback from within the app: error on lyrics, tracks, artists or features, ideally with a follow up. 

Please make the best desktop app for the music lovers.

Best.

 

No one wants to Electron based App :(

Hitmaker
January 27, 2022

Well, the positive side of Electron apps is that they’re easily consistent with the Web version. But that’s also why it makes less sense to use a dedicated app. You might as well use just the browser.

Roadie
January 30, 2022

To the executive Team and Board of Directors, who do not give a crap about this small but important features and will likely not read this, since there is no way to contact them.

 

1) Stop forcing Users into the Windows-Walled-Garden-Storefront, Microsoft employee trying to establish since Windows 8.1


It says "Download App". But there is no download of the program.
Only a mandatory account subscription to Microsofts Store where one
1.1) Does not download, has any right of ownership. or can keep any programs (Apps)
1.2) is bound to Microsoft's policy
1.3) basically has the rights to be able to log-in to the account and use the programs (they call it trendy, nowadays “App”) as long as Microsoft sees it fit. That's it.

 

It is Microsoft attempt to make the open, free, bound-to-nothing-PERSONAL COMPUTER (PC) into a walled-garden ecosystem as Android and Apple successfully did years ago

2) Microsoft is going full ownership-/censorship-mode with Windows 11 DRM - it is called TPM 2.0 and will be updated very soon to CPU-integrated DRM called PLUTON (AMD Ryzen 6000 APU already have this).

3)The usual 1+ Billion PC users have no clue and knowledge of this and not even know that 20 years ago Microsoft and countless other companies, state and governments forced alliances and already did the same, and tried a DRM-Apocalype with myriads of backdoors for state authorities (spying and surveillance)

https://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/Der-versiegelte-PC-288536.html

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html

Luckily people were smarter and more wary back then and wanted privacy, anonymity, freedom, protection of rights, ownership of software, freedom of the PC.

It was denied.

4)Now these alliances are trying the same, just 10 - 20 years later. Android and Apple already fell into this - now the last front of PC and especially Linux is under attack.

 

5) Microsoft walled-garden-you-own-nothing-storefront + Windows DRM-TPM = Shit world of PC and Linux

Stop supporting this. Give users to the right to download, use and update the program directly through Deezer.
Please tell that to the owners and higher-ups of Deezer. They have no clue about what is going on right now as the only thing they know about and care about is the service and money.

1 billion Windows users are in danger of this becoming a reality in a few years.
Stop it, do not support, before it is too late.

And also stop the same for the Apple and Android programs. You also only distribute them by Apples and Googles walled-garden-storefront. It is the same.

Thanks for reading.
Greetings