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Hitmaker
November 3, 2018
Replied by Deezer

Deezer HiFi support for Android TV devices

  • November 3, 2018
  • 29 replies
  • 2106 views
Dear Deezer team!

Would be great to have HiFi (lossless) Playback support for Android TV devices.

I have an Android Tv device connected to HiFi audio receiver paired with HiFi speakers. I can really hear the difference in playback quality between 320 Kbps and FLAC. So I'm forced to use Google Cast to stream Deezer HiFi from my IPhone to Android TV to get HiFi.

Many people use Android TV boxes and many of them pair them with home audio receivers. Would be great to have HiFi audio source from Tv box.

Deezer v. 2.0.4.
Android TV 8.0

Thanks.
    Pinned Reply By walker

    Here you can see if TV has HiFi, just look at the OS and if it has or not a HiFi tag:

    https://www.deezer.com/us/devices/tv

    29 replies

    Guitar Hero
    October 15, 2021

    I second that. The cast option works but it would be really good to have on the app as the cast can sometimes crash for no reason. The best option would be to keep playing in the app from the phone as you have in Spotify only in HiFi.

    Guitar Hero
    October 4, 2022

    This is should be working hifi on android TV. It is to bad it still does not work. Advertising with hifi but practical it does not work. 

    Guitar Hero
    December 11, 2022

    I have a 2019 Nvidia Shield Pro and am curious about Deezer HiFi.

     

    So I assume the Android TV app itself still does not support lossless playback? If I cast to the Shield from a Google Assistant device with a voice command- “Play xxx on Shield” will I get bit perfect lossless  playback? What if I cast directly from my phone to the Shield?
     

    Seems silly that the Android TV app still doesn’t support lossless playback (particularly on the Shield), because the streams come from exactly the same source as casting.

    Rising Star
    July 15, 2023

    The android tv app is so bad. They really need to work on unifying their UI across all platforms. The android tv app being so bad is making me want to cancel and go back to tidal… ugh why cant deezer just hire some more devs and improve their app?!

    Minimoon
    Rising Star
    August 1, 2023

    I can confirm that the Android TV application needs to be upgraded. It would be good to take inspiration from or totally adopt the new applications for smart TVs (Samsung, LG...).  

    Roadie
    March 3, 2024

    Tidal rules!

    Shame on you Dezzer,this is nonsence not to suport hifi on Android TV!

    Rising Star
    May 7, 2024

    Still no support for androind tv/google tv users...

    Leonídia.Deezer
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    May 9, 2024

    Hi @Pedja Novakovic @userperson, thank you for raising this issue once more.

    It would certainly be wonderful to have HiFi quality available on our native TV app. Unfortunately, it's not currently in our roadmap.

    I understand that it's not the same experience, but you can stream in HiFi quality to your TV using the Chromecast feature.

    Rising Star
    May 9, 2024

    Hi @Pedja Novakovic @userperson, thank you for raising this issue once more.

    It would certainly be wonderful to have HiFi quality available on our native TV app. Unfortunately, it's not currently in our roadmap.

    I understand that it's not the same experience, but you can stream in HiFi quality to your TV using the Chromecast feature.

    Hi @Leonídia.Deezer,
    This is not a personal bash against you but...
     
    No sane person wants to whip out another device to get the first device to work properly!

    These auto replies suggesting to use chromecast are not a solution or helpful… These replies make your users think you don’t care about their experience!

    Seems like the amount of effort/money Deezer staff use in these unhelpful responses could be put to better use towards paying devs for a week's worth of work in unifying your app experience. Deezer will need to do this one day no matter what, why waste dev time tweaking each app when you could have a standardized app across all platforms?

    Long live Deezer, but while basic features are missing I fear you will continue to hemorrhage customers and not attract additional customers as Deezer's shortcomings are exposed.