I felt cheated with clever marketing - I signed up for Hi Res and all I got was high fidelity 16bit.
brill, and good to hear and can’t wait. Have just bought a high quality streamer to go with my hi-fi and can’t wait. Hate having to use your competitors!
Oh no! I just noticed Deezer has some of the same problems with their artist/album metadata as Qobuz
No - their collection is a mess. Lots of merged artists which they do nothing about.
Oh no! I just noticed Deezer has some of the same problems
Please, add 24 bit, i'd insta subscribe
Deezer need it to beat Tidal and Amazon Music
We need Master Quality Audio (MQA)
Tidal offers it, afaik it's the highest audio quality that is available in music streaming.
Master Quality audio reflects the original source and can stream up to 9216 kbps or 24-Bit / 192 kHz (typically 96 kHz / 24 bit).
https://support.tidal.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000397069-TIDAL-MASTERS-AND-MASTER-QUALITY-AUDIO
I think no one can hear in a blind test the difference between 16 bit 44.1 kHz audioand any other higher PCM resolution. It makes no sense for Deezer to support the snake oil loving audiophile clientele.
All the votes have been transferred into this idea.
24-bit FLAC, please.
No to MQA, it's lossy, problematic and adds unnecessary noise. It's not open-format and not royalty-free, unlike FLAC which is a very good format.
16-bit FLAC is already good on Deezer HiFi, but a 24-bit option would be great.
24bit/44.1kHz is enough :)
I agree with SonovP. The least thing they could do is add 24-bit instead of 16-bit.
Please Deezer improve audio quality!
Another vote here for 24-bit and higher kHz download/streaming options. WIth my “fairly good” sound system I found that I can hear a difference when doing and A/B test on the different streaming options. I left Apple Music for the better quality to be found at Deezer, it would “byte” to have to go back there again if they offer better streaming options, along with the ease of sharing playlists and such.
+1 for 24bit/96kHz
and a big no for MQA it’s just snake oil marketing and inferior to FLAC, please Deezer you are falling behind other services and I would love drop Amazon and come back to Deezer
Hey, 24 bit / 96 or 192 khz is the must! HDtracks already does it. Please, tomorrow or - good bye
They need also to improve MP3. That could be AAC 320K.
Especially now when prices raised.
Let's get higher resolution streams implemented already Deezer. We have Bryston and Paradigm gear that benefit greatly from the higher quality, still waiting on you. DvD-A, SACD and high resolution downloads sound wonderful but don't offer the convenience I'm already paying for with my Deezer hifi subscription
I hope deezer never caves in to the pressure and remains with CD quality. It sounds fantastic, I have zero streaming issues, and sound quality and bitrates are consistent. Qobuz and Amazon tout their hi-res stuff, but in reality, any listening session I do with them is comprised of equal parts CD quality and hi-res, because that’s what is available.
Amazon and Tidal were an experiment in “When will the music drop out again?” for me and, anecdotally, for many others.
CD quality is the sweet spot.
I’m so far very happy with the cd quality 16bit/44Khz (lossless) FLAC streams at a sharp price point, most (older) tracks were mastered for cd and would thus not benefit from (more) hires quality. There’s certainly a point for 24bit/96Khz quality as it gives the engineers more headroom for their implementations, but please know I’m a trained physicist and stand firmly behind the Nyquist-Shannon dictate. I’ve been reading around and know 44Khz needs a sharp low-pass filter which at higher sampling frequencies would have less risk of aliasing into the audible spectrum but apart from that I neglect all subjective comments on the benefits of hi-res audio, show me the measurements!
I think Deezer has to attend to two matters in order to be more competitive:
Introduce a 24 Bit music catalogue to rival Apple Lossless and Tidal (although Tidal has its issues). 24-bit / 44,1kHz, or even better 24-bit / 48 kHz (which is what Apple Lossless listeners effectively get unless they invest in some additional hardware in order to access higher res). That is also a nice file size to still stream seamlessly.
Secondly, to make Tidal hifi (and above 24 Bit) also available on Android TV boxes, which is where Tidal has one up on them.
Deezer has me caught between a rock and a hard place, my equipment can run much higher than 16/48, but don’t really want to contribute to Amazon/Apple, which means its either Deezer or Qobuz (Tidal and its MQA shenanigans is a no go).
With the Spotify exodus, Deezer is well placed to take advantage, but it needs to be doing better, and higher than 16/48 has to be one of the main planks going forward.
Secondly, to make Tidal hifi (and above 24 Bit) also available on Android TV boxes, which is where Tidal has one up on them.
Ouch sorry, I meant - to make Deezer hifi (and the new 24bit catalogue) available on Android TV boxes (the current app does not, while Tidal's app does everything, incl some MQA unfolding).
24bit/48kHz could be a really good product, meaning native high res (24/96-192) scaled down to 24/48, which is a straightforward process that does not introduce other audible problems, and is still easy to stream. Whatever audible benefit there is from higher (than 48kz) resolutions are probably cancelled out by the practical complications to stream it.
Going 24 bit would be the icing on the cake for me.
I have a small library of DSD and 24/pcm files that I can clearly hear the superiority of on either my Cyrus amp with B&W speakers or my planar mag cans.
I’m probably going to run a Qobuz account (single user) alongside my family hi-fi Deezer account but I’d much prefer it to be all Deezer.
Do it. do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it…..
Hello, guys. This is the moment, where you should really consider some kind of a hi-res implementation. With Crapify going belly up with theirs, you can provide users with an alternative to Tidal and Apple, with your larger catalogue and better discovery features than either of those.
I'd prefer that Deezer spend their development time supporting their existing HiFi service before adding higher res tracks that nobody will be able to use. Things like getting HiFi working on Android devices including GoogleTV (the most popular streaming device on the market), Roku (second most popular streaming OS AFAIK yet something thats no longer supported), WebOS, FireTV, Tizen, support for external DACs, etc...
Deezer would have little competition if it would go above and beyond cd quality. Their cd quality is great and I can only imagine 24 bit+.
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