Gapless playback between tracks

Hi Deezer,

Albums like Pink Floyd's iconic Dark Side of the Moon and many dance albums like The Chemical Brothers' Dig Your Own Hole have songs that flow into each other and would not have gaps between the tracks when listened to on CD or vinyl. Please can gapless playback be a feature on Deezer? A crossfade option is not the same. We would just like simple, gapless playback from one track to the next. Thank you.

Albums like Pink Floyd's iconic Dark Side of the Moon and many dance albums like The Chemical Brothers' Dig Your Own Hole have songs that flow into each other and would not have gaps between the tracks when listened to on CD or vinyl. Please can gapless playback be a feature on Deezer? A crossfade option is not the same. Just simple, gapless playback from one track to the next. Thank you.

I switched to deezer trying to find an alternative to spotify. Been using the android app for a few months now and I kind of like it despite some minor drawbacks (like more taps required to get to the search bar from some parts of the app). But almost immediately I discovered something shocking that completely shadows everything good deezer has to offer: no gapless playback! Now some albums and radio shows that are designed to be played gapless (so that the next track starts at the same millisecond the previous one ends) now suddenly have 1 second gaps between them. This means that when listening to Toolroom Radio playlist for example, every few minutes the audio stops for 1 second, mid-sentence of the radio host or just disrupting the flow of the beat if the host isn't speaking. Same thing happens with countless of other albums people here have mentioned, like classical music and Pink Floyd.

There has been some confusion here about crossfade and gapless. They aren't the same thing unless you make it so that the zero mark in the crossfade slider actually means zero seconds between the tracks. In the current implementation this is not the case. In my opinion, a better solution would be something like spotify's approach, where there is a tickbox for gapless and a separate slider for crossfade.

I have been waiting patiently for gapless playback to be implemented but now my patience is over. Since 50 % of the music I listen to is intended to be played gapless, I am now forced to go back to spotify. I'm probably coming back to this thread from time to time to see if there are any advancements and if I could switch back to deezer. But until gapless is implemented, deezer has lost yet another customer.

Another rant for the same issue this is starting to get on my nerves.
It is anoying to listen albums that are ment to be continuous music when there is the small pause between each song instead of nice continuous flow like the album is ment to be played.
My example is Mike Oldfields "The songs of distant Earth". This ruins the experience sadly :/

I really have to start thinking to switch the service if they doesn't start to fix trivial things like this.

I posted about this a while back. Deezer has lost me for this very reason. Gapless is a must. For me, deezer is the best music streaming provider going, but until they get gapless I'm, unfortunately, staying with spotify.

Please listen to us, Mr or Mrs Deezer.

Hi there @Slg and all,

The feature is being developed and it's actually already available on Beta for Android.

So I signed up for Beta testing and have updated my deezer app for android (I'm on a Nokia 7+ with android 9) but still can't find the option "gapless playing".
Can you tell me how to turn it on? I just tested it with the best album of all times "Dark side of the Moon" but still no gapless playback between the songs!
Please advise.

Please don't tell me it's the crossfade slider....

@TheFrahes

You're right, I made a mistake. We do have another topic with Gapless and Crossfading in the same comment. Crossfading is being tested, not gapless. It's not ideal, but it's an available workaround.
I'll look into the gapless discussion with our product team and I'll let you know if there are any updates.

I'm pretty sure, as long deezer using junk codecs like mp3 for streaming, there will never ever be gapless playback do technical limitations of mp3 (frame ending).

So if you want gapless playback, switch to other streaming services that provides aac/ogg/flac.
I know that deezer also provide flac, but i think they will not bring gapless playback due feature parity of their apps.

I switched a long time ago, because of all the missing basics and limitations.
@deezer : BTW, it's 2019, not 1978. RIDICULOUS!!

Lack of gapless playback is pretty sad in this day and age. I'm a developer. I know darned well that it can be done (in a desktop app). Deezer is simply choosing not to make it a priority. They've been doing so for a while. Time for me to check out a different streaming service...