Linux needs a native client for Deezer!

In this case I will probably cancel my subscription and look for somerhing else (Spotify seems to be supported by a lot of different devices). My aim is to have a stand-alone player that doesn't require a wireless connection or the use of a smartphone. A Raspberry pi with a touch screen meets this need.

Request with the highest score without any progress for over 6 years.

What is the point of reporting issues here and voting for them?

You have also to take into consideration that the Linux community (which I’m a part of) is often a vocal minority. I’m pretty sure Deezer has some data that prove it wouldn’t be worth it to attribute resource to it.
But you can use the unofficial package available on flathub.

Don’t think this idea is worth putting effort in, honestly. Linux users account an extremely small percentage of users in total, I imagine Deezer also being very thin in numbers.

Which is why smart app development is important. If they designed their app with compatibility in mind from the start it would be minimal effort to add their app to any OS/platform.

Linux runs the world, it's not just desktop users. Making things work on Linux opens the door for other devices as well (smart devices/cars/media players/media servers). Again if they developed their app with open compatibility in mind supporting any platform would be trivial.

Linux desktop also continues to grow steadily. If you think about the number of Mac users vs Windows users there aren't a lot of Mac users either…

There is an unofficial Deezer desktop app on Linux. If a random person can compile code and get the app working on Linux surely Deezer can spend a week (or less) getting it to work.

You can install deezer with wine or android virtual machine

You should check github, gitlab, sourceforge, and other FOS project website once in a while.

Last project updated for a deezer client on Linux that I found on github : https://github.com/aunetx/deezer-linux

The pinned comment on this should be updated to point to https://github.com/aunetx/deezer-linux, as the one in the pinned comment hasn't been updated in years.

It's time, the request was made 7 years ago, and an app has already been developed by enthusiasts...

If a app has already been made by third-party enthusiasts, then deezer should just bless that app, pr open up its API, so that third-party developers can create their own apps, similar to how Spotify is. 

While I would also like to see a Linux version, this is something I suspect will never happen. I think it is not interesting enough for Deezer to do this. iOS, Android, Mac and Windows remain the most interesting for Deezer.

They still don’t support hifi on androidtv…. so sadly I don’t see this happening either.

They will never do it, just like Adobe will never release Photoshop on Linux and Microsoft will never release “tHe ReAl WoRd” on Linux.

Besides, Deezer apps work bad on other platforms, imagine adding a new one, when the community will do their work for them better: https://github.com/aunetx/deezer-linux.

Honestly I’m also here because my mobile data plan comes with Deezer and well “free” is free.

Don't recall what the developers told you? I guess linux users don't expect a native app. At least Electron version, but to have official support.

I’m running Deezer on linux. 

https://github.com/Billcountry/deezer

Is the Linux version of Deezer working well for you? What would you say is an advantage of using it over the web app?

I’d be in favor of a Linux app, but here’s the thing.  The developers aren’t wrong to shrug at such a suggestion.

Okay, an official Linux release.  But let’s consider the details:

• Which Packaging method? Flatpak and Snap are two competing methods, but have upsides and downsides.  (Flatpak has to be installed on Ubuntu, Snap isn’t really adopted past Ubuntu.)  I love the pros of Appimage but have yet to see it work successfully on first run on any app. 
• Or do they go directly to the distros?  DEB, RPM, YUM, or do they do a custom script to automate building it on a client system?  And if Deezer doesn’t pick YOUR distro, what’s different then that isn’t different now?
• What libraries are needed to run it?  For the supported distribution, are they available?  Every Distro is its own Parliament, accepting and dismissing packages to their whims and standards, so there is no guarantee libraries present in one distro are in another. (Clapping between words, “It’s an Electron App” isn’t enough.  Even Electron apps can have dependencies.)
• Then consider safety patching for Zero Day issues (even Electron has issues with updates downstream) necessitating quick patching of the Linux client to mitigate a vulnerability.  This isn’t easy work for any app to pull off.  It takes a few folks with a full-time job to oversee and carry these patches out.

So let’s figure they make the sensible choice and support the widest used distros (let’s say Ubuntu and Arch Linux for sake of argument) and tell other distros “unofficial clients are likely abound, go use those.”  When Ubuntu changes their environment to remove packages Deezer needs to run, do they abandon the users for another distro that’s more “Goldilocks”?  Or what if they do the reverse like Spotify did and side with Ubuntu?  How will that fare with you?

Here’s two more reads for armchair developers:
Direct from Linus himself.  Yes, it’s a speech from 2014, but it’s still true today.  Portable App Packaging didn’t solve much.

And XKCD putting not too fine of a point on it:
https://xkcd.com/927/

Also: Spotify NEVER had an official Linux app.  Even their unofficial one isn’t supported anymore. From their own site: “Spotify for Linux is a labor of love from our engineers that wanted to listen to Spotify on their Linux development machines. They work on it in their spare time and it is currently not a platform that we actively support.”

Hopefully I’m saying what the developers can’t: If you’re passionate about Deezer and made an unofficial client, keep on going.  It doesn’t have to be for every single distro people ask you to cover… let other fans bootstrap their own client for their favorite version of Linux and possibly collaborate on changes and OS based mitigations needed.
 

TL;DR: A Linux app is hard to make because there’s 100’s of active distributions of Linux, each with their own rules, and each distribution may break the app from working on future releases based on “not end-user problems” that will be seen to be Deezer’s fault regardless. 

So why waste time and possible table-flipping user exoduses to make an official one?

I partially agree. Let's not forget that the unofficial Linux app is simply a development based on Chromium, a browser widely used by all distributions.

I personally, as I mentioned, am very happy using the web player with Firefox.

Something they could add to the unofficial Linux app is adding folders. The downside is that it could only be used with this app and nothing else, because it would be an add-on to the app, not to our Deezer accounts. I'd also been told that this doesn't seem necessary, given the rumors that they're about to implement this feature on Deezer.

That’s so true ! we need it