Gapless playback between tracks

Thanks for the feedback, guys @elstupid @Saschimi

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Hi Rudi,

thx for your reply.

What else can we do?

Is there another place for feature requests? Like gitlab or so...

At the moment, no @Saschimi since Dark Mode was birthed in our community, our product managers and devs are constantly looking at this forum of ideas. The ideas with more votes, views and replies, and also the coolest ones, will be discussed as new features are released, so that we can plan in advance and dedicate available resources to it. So far this is the best hub to push ideas through to the app.

Currently this idea is #4 on most voted ideas or rather #3, as Dark Mode is implemented already:

https://en.deezercommunity.com/got-an-idea-9?sort=votes.desc

There is at least one related thread on the Deezer subreddit about Gapless Playback, too, so you could mention this thread there and that people should vote for it here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/deezer/

Thank you, @Rudi and @bluezzbastardzz.

It's really sad and I don't understand it. You can get high-res-sound from Deezer but no gapless playback?

Must be very annoying for all the classic music lovers out there who have no voice here, too.

I was wondering (@Rudi ) why its so difficult to deliver gapless playback. From a strictly engineering viewpoint, its reasonably trivial. Maybe the obvious methods have been patented (this is no bar to a patent!), or the track database has been constructed in a fashion that makes it awkward. Its conceivable that gapless itself is easy, but reformatting so many tracks is an intractable problem.

To play devils advocate for a moment, how valuable is gapless? For me (in UK), a gapless service costs £10pm. I play a lot of material that sounds worse without it, but for the most part it doesn't sound awful. Different people will have different views, but there will generally be a price point where a big enough discount would make it worth living without it. Would it be bearable for £5 pm instead?

Can we start a GoFundMe.com fundraiser to pay Deezer to develop this? I would gladly send 500EUR to Deezer to prioritize work on this. The alternative is to replace $15,000 EUR of B&O audio gear I use for multiroom streaming in my house, and switch to Spotify. I was literally researching alternative audio systems today because of this very problem.

Thank you very much for the feedback, guys @tlambord @EEAlexHay. I've quoted your comments to our product team 👍🏼

100% needs to be a prority. Loved Deezer so far but this is a big enough error to prevent me from commiting switching from spotify. Im sure many others will feel the same. Fix this bug and i will happily renew after my trial is up, until then I can't justify it as i have quite a few albums that rely on this working

I also want to point out the last time I ever ran into this problem was using a Nokia 5330 around 2009...

I tried Deezer for some days. Amazed with the sound quality (Deezer Hi-Fi) and with the very easy to use interface. But this thing - lack of gapless playback - is the reason why, for now, I'm going back to Spotify.