Deezer should recommend HiFi quality tracks on an own playlist


Hi, I just checked the Browse and Hear This sections in the beta desktop app and could not find a related HiFi playlist from Deezer where they recommend some tracks to listen to as examples for high quality sound. But maybe I have just overlooked it.

It would make sense for users who actually have access to the HiFi setting, but also for other interested people who are thinking about switching to a HiFi account. You should make sure that all of the included tracks are definitely streamed from FLAC files of course and are not just transcoded from MP3 files, as we cannot check this e.g. in the beta desktop app.

If you need suggestions, I'm sure there are lots of users who would contribute to such a playlist, also Spotify has related playlists with recommendations for headphone listening or with audiophile classical music for example (although they do not offer lossless streaming in FLAC format, only 320kbps Ogg Vorbis):

https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/37i9dQZF1DWZtZ8vUCzche

https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/37i9dQZF1DWWISLnAIWyCZ


I am collecting some albums at the moment on my Kabeltest playlist which I have converted from Spotify to Deezer with Soundiiz.com for free. It mostly contains well-known older albums with excellent and/or "critical" sound that I had used in the past for listening tests at home testing cables or loudspeakers. The typical genres in my case would be great recordings of classical music e.g. by the Decca label and also "classic rock" like Alan Parsons or Tom Waits (album cover for Frank's Wild Years is still missing, by the way):
https://www.deezer.com/en/playlist/5151568908

 

In the meantime I have compared Deezer's HiFi setting in the beta desktop app with Spotify's ad-supported sound in their desktop app (160 kbps Ogg Vorbis). See my comment in this thread on the Deezer subreddit:



I'm listening with my old but trusty stereo gear via Windows PC, not headphones, and the difference is quite easy to spot: harsh, two-dimensional and cloudy, often fatiguing sounds with Spotify's free offer, more space and room acoustics, better separation of instruments, overall clearer and smoother with Deezer's HiFi setting in the beta desktop app.

Perhaps I will continue comparing with Deezer's lower settings (320 and 128 kbps MP3) or YouTube HQ encoded videos via Last.fm (128 kbps AAC), but I was surprised about the difference and may just as well have fun with the Deezer HiFi setting and my playlist in shuffle mode.

Hi there, thanks for the feedback! I will pass it on to the right team! 😉

Thank you, @Rafael. This weekend I found the time and motivation for comparing Deezer's lower quality settings with HiFi in another related thread about Airplay:
https://en.deezercommunity.com/other-devices-49/deezer-hifi-over-apple-airplay-desktop-app-4-0-5-13-is-not-lossless-to-my-ears-comparison-test-24461#post67632

 


Any update on that topic? I want to enjoy my hi fi account. Please, is there any hi fi playlist created? 


Well, at least you can now check the currently used audio quality in Deezer, so the need for such a recommended playlist by Deezer is not as essential anymore as it was when I suggested this idea. Of course you could also check my short list in the mentioned related thread, or simply convert Spotify’s mentioned playlists e.g. with TuneMyMusic.com or Soundiiz.com or any other playlist converter tool, but watch out for differing tracks from other releases which may be found instead.

Also note that personal musical taste of course varies a lot between users, so what a typical audiophile classical music nerd would use to compare will naturally differ from a hip-hop or electro fan who needs as much low bass content as possible. :wink:


OK, looks like this has been implemented now and is called HiFi Room. Check out this link, it should work in the web player and on mobile devices. It is also available in the desktop app, see the screenshot:

https://www.deezer.com/channels/hifiroom

 

Here are some more screenshots from the web player done with Opera which can capture the whole browser page from top to bottom, but also with a small bug when several frames are involved.

The HiFi Room consists of three sections:

  1. 16 “HiFi Playlists” sorted by genre with 40-50 songs each.
  2. “The Perfect Record Collection” sorted by decades starting with “The 1970s” and ending with “The 2010s” with 10-13 albums for each year, the pictures only show the first four albums, but you can scroll to the right to see all of them.
  3. 23 “Reissues” with new and/or recommended releases of albums picked by the Deezer HiFi editor.

The first screenshot shows an overview of these three sections in the HiFi Room, followed by examples of the different parts (sorry for the somewhat broken Opera images):

 

HiFi Playlists:

 

The Perfect Record Collection (The 1970s and The 2010s):

 

 

Reissues:

 

Note that you can enlarge these screenshots by clicking on them and/or opening them in a new browser tab by right-clicking them.