Hello @classicalking @lukevdijk thanks for sharing your ideas how to get a better experience using our Desktop app.
I will share these suggestions with our product team:
- Feature that allows OS be sync with Deezer app for the Theme in use.
- Gapless (that as been suggest before but we still don’t have info when it will be implemented)
- The preview clip its a great suggestion when you are building a playlist
- Apple watch, indeed would be great to have more info on what is happening when downloading content
Let’s hope in the future to have some of these suggestions implemented.
Can the Deezer app please have a global hotkey added for the “Don’t recommend this track” button? Thank you!
Details of request:
Original problem: I want a music streaming service in which I can press one button on my keyboard and I will never hear the current song again.
A nearly impossible request, humanity just isn’t there yet, I know, I know. But, I have actually been doing this for years with Deezer using a combination of Google Chrome + https://github.com/berrberr/streamkeys + various mouse software tools to remap mouse buttons to macros. Streamkeys is no longer updated, but I have been updating a fork whenever Deezer makes markup changes that break Streamkeys. I use Streamkey’s “Dislike” hotkey functionality coupled with Deezer’s “Don’t recommend this track” button. This has been very successful.
Deezer is the only streaming service I know of that allows “banning” infinite songs. Tidal has a 1,000 song “ban” limit. YouTube Music’s thumbs down does not “ban” a song, and now almost all the songs that are recommended to me are songs that I have already thumbs downed.
Current/upcoming problem(s)/risks:
- Google Chrome is deprecating Web Manifest V2. Presumably this will cause me more upkeep for my cobbled-together fork of streamkeys. I otherwise perform no Chrome extension development. Or maybe this will make it impossible. I don’t know.
- Firefox does not support global hotkeys for extensions.
- The Deezer App does not have a global hotkey for this task, neither in its web interface nor its desktop app, despite it being the feature that separates it from every other streaming service.
I know that this feature will never be added. I am simply typing all of this for my own catharsis, to feel like I explored every avenue for having a button to press that does this basic task. Maybe I will explore using AutoHotKey in Windows to send clicks to the Deezer App. I also use Linux daily, so that won’t help me either.
Perhaps I will have grandchildren someday, and perhaps their children will have a button they can press to never hear a song again. A man can dream. A man can hope. A man can cry out in vain at the endless void for a request that the universe with its physical laws simply cannot fulfill. A button, that allows you, to never, hear, a song, again? Such a fantasy can only exist in the dreams of children and the psychotic. But still I persist, all hope of sanity now gone from even the deepest recesses of my mind.
Years have passed on this dream that a music streaming service, one of them, any of them, support this request. Did I ask for it to be cross-platform? No, despite needing it to be cross-platform. Did I ask for the “Don’t recommend this track” to actually never recommend a track again? No, because Deezer support already told me that Deezer does not support “banning” songs. So “don’t recommend” apparently means “recommend sometimes”? But I digress.
Like Edmond Dantès, I have toiled for years in solitude, yearning for freedom. Will someone help me? Will anyone help me? Do I have to scratch my way out of here with my own fingernails? Waiting years for them to regrow because the stone whittles them to nothing? Like waves crashing against the cliffside, hoping to transform it into a beach. A useless endeavor that could achieve success only by the passing of eons.
I know my fate. I will have to stay on Google Chrome forever, and learn, through pain, what cosmic horrors await me trying to forever maintain an aging extension on web manifest v3 to support this use case. A flicker of hope in an otherwise pitch black stain of existence.
Someday. Someday keyboards will have a button that can be pressed to dislike a song, and someday, a music streaming service will exist that never recommends disliked songs. Will it be in my lifetime? No.
Hi @pipperixi, thank you for your detailed feedback and for sharing your experience with us.
I understand your request for a global hotkey for the “Don’t recommend this track” feature and the challenges you're facing with current tools.
At the moment, we do not have a global hotkey feature in the Deezer app. However, I will share your suggestion with our developers for their consideration.
If you'd like, you can also submit your idea directly here to ensure it reaches the right team for evaluation.
Thank you for your patience and for being a dedicated Deezer user.
Desktop App: There seems to be no way to show the “time left” on the track I am playing. In other streaming services I just click on the “total time” and it will toggle between “total time” and “time left”.
