Deezer HiFi With Hi-Res Quality: 24bit/96kHz or more

This is definitely needed with the release of Spotify Hifi for Deezer to not loose customers and they need to go higher 24bit/192kHz to behave something to beat them 

I used to be on the hi-res bandwagon, however is this really the “droid we are looking for”? Deezer already offers CD quality, especially considering it supports Airplay 1 rather than Airplay 2. The arguably largest streaming service in the world until recently did not provide hi-res (or lossless, I believe?) thus it could be said that the vast majority of listeners do not really care about music fidelity. With the switch to offering lossless streams, will their user base increase, and will Deezer’s go down even more? Are most people who chase the hi-res dream aware of what it takes to actually achieve a hi-res stream to their speakers, or perhaps I should say ears since without room treatment this would be likely a pipe dream. Further, studies show that very few people can actually identify hi-res music, and only when a properly treated room with high end equipment. In my room we can pick out Deezer vs Sirius or mp3’s nearly all the time. But beyond that are we honestly chasing smaller gains with larger input costs? But that does not take away the marketing aspect, and that I suppose is for Deezer to decide if it is worth the effort. If Deezer does go in that direction, a proper Connect feature would certainly aid in the ability to reproduce high fidelity sound.

I agree. While Deezer has worked on a lot of user content/features, its one of the few that offered lossless. I personally have found Deezer to not be as refined as Spotify when suggesting music/playlists plus its not used as much by family/friends. Deezer likes to play a lot of live tracks vs studio recordings, which is very annoying (to me at least). I also get glitches with the app, particularly on Android Auto.

Upping the anti with higher lossless would provide multiple benefits, include attracting users from Qobuz and Tidal, help retain its current audiofiles, and provide marketing material. Now, Spotify can list themselves as having higher lossless than Deezer, attracting that segment from alternatives. They now need to compete with Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, and Qobuz.

Personally I transferred my playlist to Spotify and will be trying them using the 3-month trial. The results will determine where I end up. I’ve also been on Tidal before Deezer, and tried both Qobuz and Apple Music but was not a fan on Qobuz (not very good suggestions), Apple Music (its Apple and I’m an Androider lol), and Tidal (was sick of the MQA BS).

I can’t imagine it would be super difficult to upload a chunk of higher fidelity audio files, if they don’t already have some, and integrate them. Whether integrating them with the current tier, or creating a Lossless Plus selection option. Also, crossfade.

​@Tylorw1 

TIDAL has actually dropped MQA and 360 Reality Audio formats for HiRes FLAC and Dolby Atmos.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/21/24183037/tidal-mqa-flac-dolby-atmos-spatial-audio

https://support.tidal.com/hc/en-us/articles/25876825185425-Audio-Format-Updates

I came the other way and left Spotify a year ago as I was sick of the annoying features, promoting AI, suggesting the same bland music over and over, the poor quality at the time, the poor payment to musicians and bad ethics. I will never go back.

I tried Qobuz and although good quality and easy to use it is a service for those who know what they want to listen to already. I could hear the upgrade from 320bps to 16bit. But not 16bit to 24bit. That is with nice speakers. I wanted some podcasts and some sort of radio feature + be able to connect over wifi to my Yamaha Music cast equipment. So Deezer was the best option. As I wasnt doing Amazon music.

Saying all that I want Deezer to exist. So I think they should up their game and match the competition and go 24 bit.