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Switch to Deezer Desktop Mini/Light

On every other streaming service I have had there has always been an option to have a mini player which instead of just minimising the app to the dock, it shrinks to a small window that stays on the screen. Apple music, Google play music all do this and I loved it. It's frustrating to keep having to click on the minimized Deezer app to restore the window to tell it not to play this or to love the track. So can you please make it so we can click a button on the Deezer desktop app to shrink it to a mini player.
Hi @Ons



I can see that you found our forum and created a new topic about this. Well done! You've got my vote and I've passed the idea on. Hopefully we'll get more people to vote for it and bump it up on the list 😉
I think a really useful feature would be to have the option to create a 'mini Deezer window' for the desktop app (like Itunes can do). This would allow one to just keep a tiny window in the corner of their screen to save one switching between windows all the time

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Hey @injatimi



Thanks for your feedback. Please register your support for the idea here 😉

I would like to add to this idea.  I find Apple Music’s Mini Player really flexible.  When you hover over the song title and artist, the basic controls become available along with Like, Favorite, Dislike, etc…  This kind of functionality would be awesome.  I would also hope to see it done in a true Deezer aesthetic, with Dark Mode compatability!

Thanks for adding your feedback to this topic as well, @christianlambert :relaxed:

I really hope this idea gets more votes, cause this would make listening to music while working much more pleasant :)

Updated idea status In discussion → Feedback
Updated idea status Feedback → Not for now

This isn't on the plans for now but if we get more votes and traction, our team will be revisiting the suggestion :relaxed:

This is now November 2021… and still no Deezer “Mini”!!
I’m a retired old man who started his career as a BBC Sound Engineer and music is central to my life.

Deezer is fantastic but I don’t understand why there still isn’t a Win desktop mini player!!
Lots have people have posted, asked and encouraged you to please deliver what we want… 

We would really appreciate you making it just a little more comfortable for us please.

Thank you :thumbsup:

@Orson totally agree with you! The best workaround I’ve found so far is ModernFlyouts app. It’s originally designed as volume flyout replacement but it works great as a music mini player if you set the timeout value to a large number (so that it doesn’t disappear automatically). Works with Deezer, Spotify and any media played elsewhere.

This is now November 2021… and still no Deezer “Mini”!!
I’m a retired old man who started his career as a BBC Sound Engineer and music is central to my life.

Deezer is fantastic but I don’t understand why there still isn’t a Win desktop mini player!!
Lots have people have posted, asked and encouraged you to please deliver what we want… 

We would really appreciate you making it just a little more comfortable for us please.

Thank you :thumbsup:

I bet it’s because they use Electron, which does not provide enough flexibility and they would need to write a lot to achieve that… Spotify also became nasty after they’ve switched fully to libcef. 
Yes, it’s easier to support more platforms or just integrate their webplayer, but this brings all other minuses. Essentially the app is one big browser.

I wouldn’t count on ever receiving features like miniplayer, or proper equalizer.
Apple music uses lots of native code to bring out the GUI and that’s why they’re the only app which has such functionality and does not look like something out of place.

I can’t believe this is not available yet… Old user of Winamp, can’t really undestand how now, almost 20 years later, Deezer is missing some key features like this one.

+1, please make the mini player possible! The only thing I am missing from the great desktop app.

@Orson totally agree with you! The best workaround I’ve found so far is ModernFlyouts app. It’s originally designed as volume flyout replacement but it works great as a music mini player if you set the timeout value to a large number (so that it doesn’t disappear automatically). Works with Deezer, Spotify and any media played elsewhere.

Based on the very disappointing lack of development of the Deezer app I am up for uninstalling it and trying this workaround. I downloaded *.Msixbundle from https://github.com/ModernFlyouts-Community/ModernFlyouts/releases/latest, right clicked and selected install. Opening it on my windows machine this is what I see:

@Make a mini player for Windows Please tell me how this can help?

@Make a mini player for Windows Deezer is no supported by https://github.com/ModernFlyouts-Community/ModernFlyouts/blob/main/docs/GSMTC-Support-And-Popular-Apps.md, what am I missing?

I put in the request for the little it’s worth:
 

 

A mini player is an absolute must for a music app on a desktop.

Something that has been around for decades now on Mac with Itunes, and other software. Deezer is great but really misses this must have feature...

Years ago there used to be a mini player I am sure (unless I am thinking of iTunes??). I really miss that feature, as people say, essential on a desktop, even when you have two screens!

Still nothing about this feature, 4 years from original post, it’s really frustrating. Will have to try custom alternatives, probably exposing user data to anons just to do what all the other streaming apps already do.

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