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

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


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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).

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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.

 

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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.

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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!

 

Ugly Black Title Bar

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.

Can you please add a way to access artists and albums from the home page like it used to be.

A lot of us don’t use playlist, please don’t design an app with just playlist user persona in mind.

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

Can you please add a way to access artists and albums from the home page like it used to be.

A lot of us don’t use playlist, please don’t design an app with just playlist user persona in mind.

 

 

On mac only the red zone allows to drag the window. There’s no visual cue to separate the search bar from the rest, or the icons from the top.

Also the left bar has no draggable zone.

 

It basically goes against every app design i’ve ever encounter and it’s a bit annoying.

Implement accessibility - for example, colour contrasts fail. It’s disappointing that this wasn’t even considered in the first place.

(I had posted a topic with screenshots about it, but staff deleted it.)

 

 

 

 

Hover state

 

Hi,

Since the recent major UI change, the Hebrew font used for the web UI is so ugly, probably the default browser font(?), please fix it.
See example below:

 

 

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Hi @Endorphinity, Thank you very much for your feedback.

I've already forwarded it to our technical team.

We genuinely appreciate your input.

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Hey guys, did you ever try to drag Deezer window to reposition it on the screen in your shiny new Mac version 6.0?

If the search field is not used, i.e., there is nothing entered in it, and you try to drag the window, it is not obvious where its boundaries are. And only after user enters anything to the search field and can see its boundaries including the clearing control on the right, it becomes clear that drag area is just around the search field.

Search fields should be clearly distinguished right away, otherwise user is confused and cannot drag the window as easily as in any other good Mac app.

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Please allow disabling tray icon. My Mac top bar is already swamped and it’s redundant because the universal play control exists. 
 
Deezer 5.30.670

I’m a songwriter, and so I’m always interested to know the songwriters of a song.

Currently you have to click the dots then select Credits, to see the songwriters, one song and a time, not very helpful if you’re curious to know who wrote one on an album.. So it’s faster to just go to AllMusic or Wikipedia to see the credits. 

It’s be nice to see each song’s songwriters plainly on the album’s page. Or at least to have the option to list them.

If not, there’s plenty of empty space on the Queue page. on the left-side beneath the artwork, it would be nice to have the credits listed there. BTW, the album should be named there as well, in  case it’s a playlist of many artists/albums.

The artist’s main page is incredibly cluttered.

It’s very important that the discography page can be easily navigatable because it can hold a tremendous  amount of records. 

My suggestions:

  •  Seperate the discography page from the main page. The main page can have a small list of top and latest releases with a link to the full discography page.
  • The sections (Albums, Live, compilations..) should be collapsable.
    • The main album and EPs should be initially fully expanded.
    • The current dynamic expansion doesn’t work well, and you have to scroll up and down a few times for it to expand, and sometimes the other sections get expanded accidently and you get easily lost in the wrong section. Not very helpful when trying to find an old album for an artist with many many releases.
    • The other sections, like compilations, live etc.., can be very large for older artists, and should be initially partially collapsed, with  only a handful of top releases shown, and a manual expand button.
  • I’d move special edition releases (e.g. deluxe, collectors, aniversary, remastered, etc.. ) into their own section, outside of the Albums sections.  i.e. The Albums should only be all the official releases consisting of unique material. (And maybe on the Albums pages, there could be links to related releases.)
  • Need additional view modes (in addition to Grid, List):
    • Table View (Without tracks), a compact view that shows the artists, the album names, years and types in columns, and that allows sorting, and filtering.. maybe with checkboxes on the top to select which types (albums, live, EPs, compilations..) should be included in the same table.
    • Small Grid, like grid but with smaller artworks. 
  • I’d move the ‘Featured in’ to its own separate page outside of the discography page, because it can be in  the thousands, and isn’t really part of the artist’s “dicography”

If you made is this far, thanks for reading!

Three suggestions:

 

  1. The requirement to use checkboxes to select songs in a playlist is horrible. Other apps let you click and drag to select songs, but not Deezer. This desperately needs to change.
  2. Please stop using helper apps to update the desktop app on Mac. I don’t want to enter my password every single time Deezer has an update (which is often).
  3. You already have better cross-device awareness than Apple Music, which is completely dumb to playback on other devices, but the next level would be the ability to play and pause music from one source to another. So if I’m listening on my iPhone and press pause on my desktop, it should pause on my iPhone.

Please add a feature to prevent the screen from going to sleep (Desktop app).

My speakers are embedded in the external screen, and I lose playback after a few minutes when the screen goes to sleep.

The desktop app should be made touch friendly for Windows 11.

Hmm fair enough, I don’t get all the last tracks I’ve listened to.. 

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