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.

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 Streamkeys is no longer updated, but I have been updating a fork whenever Deezer makes markup changes that break Streamkeys.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:

1. 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.
2. Firefox does not support global hotkeys for extensions. 
3. 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.

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.

Hello @Cupart we appreciate all the suggestions that are share here and in any other thread in our communities.

Most of these suggestion are shared with developers, product team and other stakeholders.

Nevertheless, there are suggestions that are not feasible due to resources, bandwidth, low number of voters, and other reasons.

Talking about the most recent suggestions, what I can say according to our desktop developers is that in following quarters there are plans to solve some of the bugs occurring in our app and also to bring some improvements.

Some of those improvements might be suggestions shared by our users in these forums.

@Cupart I understand your frustration, however I do not know the scope of Deezers’ abilities to monitor these threads. These are quite minor annoyances to me anyway. Have you tried sending your suggestion by mail? I’ve done so and kindly got told they forwarded my suggestion, but they also mentioned the forum, so I thought to try here. 

Keep a positive and understanding perspective and have a good day :D

@lukevdijk don’t hold your breath… No one is going to get back to you. See my comment from 12 days ago further up, and you will see what I mean :-) 

I’m still hoping, that one day I will be proven wrong… Best of luck my friend

I would also like some more insights into the storage space a playlist would take up on my apple watch. Now if I want to download a playlist for offline use it does not show an error message or give insight as to if it is possible to download the playlist. If I do try it adds the playlist to the downloads, but it fails to download, without any indication. See attached screenshots.

Also when I want to add suggested music to a playlist the suggestions do not offer the preview soundclip like the mobile application does; see attached picture. I would expect the cover image to show the play arrow to listen to the previously mentioned preview.

Could you make it possible to switch the dark mode on the desktop app based on system preferences? Because now it seems like I have to manually choose the display mode I would like. Although it is not a time consuming task, it is bothersome when other apps have already integrated this feature.

Hi @classicalking 

Do you really think anyone at Deezer is going to do anything about it? They cannot even get albums etc placed under the right artist, and when you flag it…… nothing happens.

Deezer could be miles ahead of the other music streaming services out there but their IT is not quite there yet, and it seems to be very much based on them and not the end user.

This said, I cross my fingers for you and hope I’m proven wrong.

Wishing you a fab continuation of your week :-) 

@Jaime.Deezer  Hi, I have a couple ideas for desktop. One is for the UI to sync theme with OS, so we are not having to turn dark mode on/off manually. the second, being a classical fan, the desktop app NEEDS gapless playback. It is annoying to have pauses in between a Symphony that has continuous movements. I know you can’t guarantee, but please let the devs know. Thank you

Hi @Cupart could you please confirm if this happened after clicking on a notification? If so, could you please restart the app.
Our team is now aware of the problem and it will be fixed in the next 24 hours.
Apologies for the inconvenience

“Sorry, we don't support this version of your browser anymore.

Update your browser or download our desktop app to keep enjoying your music.”

Is the message I get when I open the Mac Deezer App. Version 6.0.120 (6.0.120.249).

Erh, I’m using the app and not the web-version (which I now actually need to use as the useless app is down again)

There seems to be a lot of issues with the Mac App version… Is this going to be fixed?

Hi @Paolo45 @cheesecycle @3ntry thanks for sharing your ideas. Really some good stuff here.

I have just shared them with Desktop developers. Fingers cross that some or all of them can be implemented in the future.

I don't know if users who read this will agree with me or not, but I seriously need a progress bar for the “My MP3” function. I can't stress enough thinking if the upload is done, if there was an error etc. Please consider this because it's really a pain not knowing my upload status and I really wanna use that feature in its best.

Please allow for the sidebar to be hidden.  I never listen to playlists on desktop and it takes up approximately 1/6 of my screen (and makes it look busy).

Greetings to the deezer community and developers. I want to recommend a little improvement to the desktop version of the app. 
1st, in full-screen mode, make it possible to reduce the left section for more space.
2nd, make a small window to save space when a person listens to an album or their tracks.
3rd, make a small footnote of information about the artist (BIO, Latest release, Upcoming tour).

Thanks for your feedback @deathgrowl I have passed it to our devs.
I can’t guarantee any changes though 

The “Discography” should show the discography- that’s what I’m looking for on that tab! If I want to find top tracks I’ll go to “Top Tracks”. If I want to find similar artists or playlists, I’ll click on those tabs. If developers want to have an overview with as much random stuff crammed in, maybe make an “Overview” tab.

Hi @Danxx, thank you so much for your suggestion.

I've already forwarded your information to our developers.

Your feedback is truly valued and appreciated.

If there's anything else you'd like to share or discuss, feel free to let me know.

Hi @Harm133, thank you for sharing your feedback.

Unfortunately, the "repeat" button is not available on the desktop app when searching for songs.

However, I have a workaround to offer: consider adding the music you enjoy to your favorites or a playlist.

This way, you can listen to your preferred tracks as many times as you'd like.

If you have any more questions or suggestions, feel free to let me know!

UI feedback for the Windows desktop app

PLEASE change the color of the window title bar to white, so that it matches the rest of the light theme of the app. The black bar looks extremely ugly.

Please allow the use of the “repeat” button when searching for songs, this works on the iOS app as expected, but is missing from the desktop app (grayed out):

Log in for the desktop application doesn’t log in and this really needs to be addressed.  Clicking ‘Log In’ creates a pop-up browser window that says I’m logged in but I cannot use the application anyway.  What purpose is there for having a piece of software that requires a login that doesn’t actually log the user in and instead requires the use of the website? 

On top of that, clicking the close button doesn’t close the thing.  This application does NOT need two minimize buttons.
This is nothing short of atrocious design.

(and it would avoid 3 loading times to access artists/albums: home, favourites and artist/albums)