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Asio & wasapi support for desktop

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
December 4, 2017
92 replies
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Hi. I would be happy to see asio and wasapi support in your windows desktop app. Tidal has this function and in my opinion it really smoothens sound and makes quality slightly better.

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Rudi

Ultimate Superstar

No updates on this one at the moment, @djwalter2000 we've been busy preparing other basic but also important features, and Dark Mode too. But our product managers are paying close attention to our ideas forum. Our FLAC catalogue has increased substantially, so that's a good sign 👍🏼

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djwalter2000

Guitar Hero

Thanks @Rudi I'm hopeful that this one works its way to the top of the list soon.

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Chris P

Roadie

This is truly unacceptable for a highres audio service, let us use our expensive dacs

Rudi

Ultimate Superstar

Thanks for the feedback @Chris P. I'll let our teams know.

komhst

Rising Star

I would like to have asio and/or wasapi support in your desktop app to get a higher quality sound by sending bit perfect stream to the external DAC.

Rudi

Ultimate Superstar

Thanks for sharing your preference and for voting @komhst :thumbsup_tone2:

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AlwaysEndWithaSwirl

Roadie

I recently switched to Deezer after dealing with terrible support from Tidal in resolving a payment issue. However, if Deezer does not add wasapi support to their desktop app, I won’t be continuing with Deezer after my trial period ends.

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Mic4rd

Roadie

I really like Deezer and would love to go with it but the desktop app is still lacking bit-perfect output through WASAPI exclusive or ASIO. While I don’t care for hi-res, i will rather settle with Amazon Music HD (cheaper than Deezer but also no bit-perfect output) or go for Qobuz (same price tag as deezer but (much) worse discovery and catalogue size). I compared Tidal, Qobuz, Deezer and Amazon HD for one month with many songs and found that Tidal often has strange/own mastering which is too bass-heavy/condensed for my taste.

Deezer would be perfect if only it had bit-perfect output (and maybe would adjust the price to Amazon HD (13 USD/month with hi-res) and Qobuz in the US (15 USD/month with hi-res).

Rudi

Ultimate Superstar

Hi there @Mic4rd @AlwaysEndWithaSwirl

Thank you for your honest feedback. I'll make sure it reaches the right team here at Deezer and hopefully it can be developed at some point :wink:

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Andrey Mamontov

Guitar Hero

Just switched from Tidal to Deezer. Deezer is more userfriendly, more interesting collections, flow, jay z not the best artist in the world, etc… But I didn’t even fully understand that this is a exclusive mode do (actually understood, but did not notice much difference). But now in userfriendly’s Deezer app (which the back button does not work - and this destroys the entire user experience) I really hear the difference, more difference, then using different DACs in chain.

You need to do this exclusive mode as soon as possible with wasapi, asio, and all other “shiit”) like agreement with guys from MQA. Because HiFi subscription in Deezer and Tidal - it is the biggest advantage compared to Spotify and Apple Music.

I understand that this is not a very popular subscription plan. But it will grow and while Spotify comes to its senses, you will get a user base ready to pay for high resolution audio.

And don’t stop at Flac, stream as high frequency as possible, who cares that 99.99% of people will not hear the difference, hardware do)) seriously)

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