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One Hit Wonder
November 1, 2017
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Gapless playback between tracks

  • November 1, 2017
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There should be no gap between tracks running into each other. This is a basic thing for the listeners experience.

458 replies

Superschlumpf
Superuser
Deezer "Sonos Master" Legend
July 26, 2022

@Konstantin76 

Yes, the world is bad and Deezer wants to treat you… 🙄

Come on man, they give their best all day and have built up a great service the last years. But there are so many topics on the list and manpower is very limited so that they can‘t do every feature. 
Imho you have to look at the whole service and not just at one function to judge about Deezer. 

[he/him] Deezer is music, but Deezer and Sonos is party !
MrHaroldA
Rising Star
Rising Star
July 27, 2022

@Konstantin76


Imho you have to look at the whole service and not just at one function to judge about Deezer. 

I want two things from my streaming service: gapless playback and decent casting to my Chromecast devices.

Deezer does none.

And not only none: none for years, and none years to come. They even marked Chromecast support as ‘not for now’?!?

bluezzbastardzz
Superuser
Superuser
August 17, 2022

So there is a Reddit user reporting that gapless playback works for them in the web player on ChromeOS with Chrome as the browser, and @dee_dirk confirms it with Chrome on macOS, but not in the macOS desktop app. I cannot confirm it for Edge and Opera, both Chromium-based browsers, tested with Alan Parsons’ first two albums Tales of Mystery and Imagination and I Robot.

Maybe Firefox and Safari users can check this and/or other Chrome users?

ZZee ya, Hans-Jürgen (Bluezz Bastardzz and Indigo Rocks, live album on Deezer, last.fm/user/hjbardenhagen)
bluezzbastardzz
Superuser
Superuser
August 17, 2022
ZZee ya, Hans-Jürgen (Bluezz Bastardzz and Indigo Rocks, live album on Deezer, last.fm/user/hjbardenhagen)
August 17, 2022

Other confirmations: Chrome on Windows 10 and Mac, Firefox on Windows 10 and Mac, Safari on Mac and Edge on Windows 10. I can use gapless everywhere.
The latest browser versions are installed on all computers.

bluezzbastardzz
Superuser
Superuser
August 18, 2022

Still not working in my web player, but this is due to the current global rollout of gapless playback for this feature, as has been confirmed by staff now. So it is supposed to be available to everyone in the next week. 😎

“YOU get gapless playback, and YOU get gapless playback, and YOU, too - everybody gets gapless playback!” Thank you, Oprah Winfrey.

ZZee ya, Hans-Jürgen (Bluezz Bastardzz and Indigo Rocks, live album on Deezer, last.fm/user/hjbardenhagen)
bluezzbastardzz
Superuser
Superuser
August 18, 2022

Now please fix InSided, too, Oprah. 😥

ZZee ya, Hans-Jürgen (Bluezz Bastardzz and Indigo Rocks, live album on Deezer, last.fm/user/hjbardenhagen)
Roadie
September 6, 2022

I proved gapless playback on web app with opera and edge (chromium based) and it works, at least on Hi-Fi & HQ modes. It is better than bluestacks option and as workaround I postales as a desktop app using edge capabilities.

bluezzbastardzz
Superuser
Superuser
September 7, 2022

Right, it works fine in the web player now. It still can have gaps on old computers with e.g. only 4gb ram and very long albums with hundreds of tracks like Wagner operas, then it can happen that the gaps come up at the end of such an album.

Also another thing that might become forgotten in the web player are enabled adblockers in the browser which you do not need as a Deezer HiFi customer anyhow. They can interfer with the playback and tell you that you are offline while you are not due to trying to contact Braze.com, a customer engagement platform that Deezer uses and gets blocked by adblockers.

ZZee ya, Hans-Jürgen (Bluezz Bastardzz and Indigo Rocks, live album on Deezer, last.fm/user/hjbardenhagen)
DenalB
Hitmaker
Hitmaker
September 7, 2022

Right, it works fine in the web player now.

Works for me in Vivaldi Browser on Windows 11. Only the Windows Desktop App has no gapless playback.

 

Also another thing that might become forgotten in the web player are enabled adblockers in the browser which you do not need as a Deezer HiFi customer anyhow. They can interfer with the playback and tell you that you are offline while you are not due to trying to contact Braze.com, a customer engagement platform that Deezer uses and gets blocked by adblockers.

Good to know. Didn’t know this and often get the offline notification. I’ll try to disable the adblocker. 👍