Just do it. Might be a Premium feature perhaps if it costs too much server space and/or bandwidth. And please add internal Last.fm scrobbling to uploaded files, too (works with browser extension Web Scrobbler in the Deezer web player which cannot stream FLAC though). Would be great if we could listen to these FLAC files in any device as well, not only in the desktop app which allows HiFi streaming.
Google Play Music and Amazon Music allow this as well, but convert them to MP3 afterwards, not sure about Tidal or Apple Music (with ALAC files), Spotify cannot upload any files anyhow, only play local files on your device:
https://support.google.com/googleplaymusic/answer/1100462 (convert to MP3 320kbps)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201379270 (no longer available, it seems)
FLAC files upload
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Please not that you should create one topic per idea and not mix them up with different ones like the scrobble idea, which actually already exists. You can vote for it here.
I've started a trial for each of these services, and honestly, I'm having a hard time picking which one is best. The fact that the mobile apps for Deezer do not support HiFi and the fact that the uploading feature does not support HiFi has me leaving toward Tidal or Qobuz.
I still have to continue trying these services to make a final decision, though (it certainly won't be Spotify).
Talking about options, playing local M4A files in Spotify also scrobbles to Last.fm which might be interesting for some users as well.
Regarding maximum audio streaming quality with your own uploaded music files Deezer at least allows 320kbps MP3 the last time I checked. When they introduced this feature back then, there was a limit at 192kbps MP3, I think. And when I started this thread, Amazon and Google Play Music still had a free file upload option which is gone by now, too, as far as I know.
Deezer definitely needs to focus on adding support for this feature and HiFi on mobile which is requested here: https://en.deezercommunity.com/ideas/566
Both of them don't allow you to upload songs to prevent hacking I think, because their servers must have a high storage capacity. So heavy files aren't a problem, but Deezer perhaps has a lower storage capacity because at the beginning it was thought for mp3 files.
Actually Deezer claims to have 36million flac songs, they are making an effort to improve. Only 4 million behind Qobuz and 24 million behind Tidal (assuming that those 60million songs they claim to have are lossless)
Anyhow, I still would like to have the option to upload FLAC files anywhere. 😉 As
Let us upload our own flac files to deezer if we are premium and if we are not premium let us upload mp3s and then you auto match the metadata so the artwork appears and lyrics and let it be synced with the cloud if we are premium so we can have some sort of private cloud playlists to play our music if we are premium
Hi there@sergisanztora
Thank you for your suggestion. I've moved your comment here so that you can support an already existing idea
Uploading mp3 files is an outdated thing. We would like to be able to upload our own flac files.
Hi@sergiesainz please vote for it at the top of this page. The more user voices we have the easier it is to convince our product managers to implement this feature
Right, FLAC upload would also be another advantage for Deezer vs. competitors. I think the uploader tool needs an update anyhow, as some important features are missing like a progress bar while uploading, so why not just add the FLAC format while you’re at it?
Meanwhile HiFi streaming is also available on mobile devices and in the web player, so uploaded FLAC files should of course also be playable in those devices.
By the way, the former idea of scrobbling uploaded MP3s is a normal thread now, so you cannot vote for it anymore, only like it. I don’t know if this is a good or bad sign or no sign for anything at all.
We'll be looking into that@bluezzbastardzz I believe it's because we've passed the idea to our devs already. Likes or votes work roughly the same.
About the other suggestions, we'll pass it on
Yes, uploading flac would be great, we really need it. Do this for a Hi-Fi subscription. And if this will heavily load the server, I think you can increase the price by 5-10%.
But in the meantime, let's talk about unofficial ways. If you rename it .flac to .mp3 on your PC, it will still be lossless (you can see this by looking at the spectrogram), as well as the size and bitrate will be saved. This way you can upload it to deezer. And the size will remain the same, you can check this by pressing F12, and opening the Network tab before starting the song. But the only problem is that playback will not start, you will get an error. I tried using a web player, and a PC app. Perhaps someone can write some extension and get around this error. I've also tried it on my phone and there's no error there, but I don't know if it's lossless there. Since I can't hear the difference on the phone
Thanks for sharing your experience@FiftyFour it's quite interesting to see how you creatively looked for a solution. Will pass your feedback to our devs
Do you plan to add this at all? If so, is there at least an approximate time frame? In the coming months?
It isn't on the plans for now, as we've got other exciting features coming up this year but things can change pretty rapidly@viviano - because of your comment I've also asked our devs for an update. If anything comes up, we'll be sharing here in the community
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Hello, I'm from Brazil and I would love if I could upload my flac files. I renamed the flac files to mp3 and I could upload them and they are playable on the android app but on the web player they aren't but I don't know if the files are really lossless when I play them on my smartphone because I don't if the used decoder is for mp3 or flac.