Asio & wasapi support for desktop

Thank you for your detailed feedback @Andrey Mamontov. It's very important for us to forward this type of criticism to our HiFi teams and developers. Some of your points are aligned with what we aim for too. Thanks a lot 

Two years since original post and still no changes :(

PS

And please tell programmers to add “try catch” in critical places in application. It crashes 4-5 times in a day without any error messages.

Thanks a lot for the feedback @JProff I'll be passing your comments on 

For WASAPI

https://www.npmjs.com/package/audify

Thank you for sharing with the community @JProff 

This is for Deezer developers :)

haha @JProff we thought so 

I’m very afraid we’ll never see proper ASIO/WASAPI support from Deezer because their strategy seems to rely solely on browser/web clients. The windows app is just a wrapper (with a stripped chrome engine) running the website. Probably also the mobile apps somehow work like this.

Because ASIO/WASAPI would require the browser(s) to support that (which they don’t, correct me if I’m wrong), the web client focus strategy is a problem. Effectively, they would have to develop a real windows client.

The few people with proper hardware and understanding of this issue are no reason to raise any issue or engage any efforts.

Only thing I don’t understand: why even offer a HiFi plan then?!

Why not, @Mic4rdeur?

Even with the 'wrapper' app, you can listen and stream in FLAC.

We do take your comments with gratitude in any case. This support hasn't been prioritised so far but it hasn't been ruled out either. We need more votes, more comments like yours, to emphasise the idea over other features we can work on at this present moment 

I tried every music service that plays FLAC, starting with Tidal then Qobuz, Amazon Music HD and finally Deezer. I was SO close to calling it and being satisfied but not being able to specify the output and set basic options such as direct/asio/wasapi is crazy considering what the service is.

Honestly, Deezer is probably the best in terms of UI and simplicity excluding Spotify so it’s surprising you aren’t trying to steal the market here as high quality music seems to be discussed more and more frequently.

If you do decide to make a desktop app please ditch UWP! Also, more options, have an advanced toggle if worried about simplicity but if you’re advertising towards users that care about the detail then the small options are needed. Appreciate the dark mode toggle though, was a delight.