Gapless playback between tracks

Hi there, we already have this feature called Crossfade although not in every app. Please find out more here
Please let me know if you are using a device or app that does not have this feature.

I want to add for those looking for Gapless Playback, the You Tube Music Product team did a Q/A on Friday, Sept 21st and said they are planning on bringing Gapless Playback to their service. I hope Deezer sees this and follows suit.
"When will you bring Gapless Playback, which is essential for those of us who listen to albums by bands like Pink Floyd?
Mentioned above, but we do know that Dark Side of the Moon just isn’t the same without true gapless and are working on it :)"

Hi, I am using Deezer on the Android App. Do you know when it will be available to Android users and not just IOS?

@Flores I merged your post into this topic. Please vote for this idea. We've already passed this on to the team as it's one of our most voted ideas and we hope that this will be implemented very soon. We'll keep you posted 🙂

Voted for this too - its a red-line issue for me, a lot of the music I listen too is spoiled if not played gapless.

A bit of a shame, as its a decent streaming service otherwise. A thumbs up to Deezer for offering a trial period though, I'd hate to have subscribed and then discovered the problem.

Hi dears
Im a Brazilian user and i have two suggestions to new resources (im a Android's user):
1) Crossfade effect
2) Deezer HIFI for mobiles..

Thanks

Fabricio Sestari

I have a problem when it comes to listening certain kinds of records, specially conceptual albums such as The Wall by Pink Floyd, in which there are no spaces between the songs in the original recording. When I listen to it here through Deezer I come across a disturbing gap everytime a song finishes. Is there a way to avoid that?

Thank you.

Jordi Mateu

@Jordi Mateu Soler I've merged your post into this topic. Please vote for this idea. We've already passed it on as one of our most voted ideas and I hope that we'll have news soon 🙂

Judging by this thread gapless playback is not going to be supported by Deezer, I am another user who will not be renewing my subscription.

This is 2018 i didn't think this would be something i need to have checked to see if it was supported by a modern music player

I just signed up for a family plan, not knowing of this idiotic error on all platforms.

This thoroughly sucks ass, as I've just manually added hundreds of albums to my library, which was quite a task.

Did Deezer ever say why they can't get this basic feature to work? Are they that incompetent?

PS: this is the fourth most requested item on this forum, but probably the one that will cost Deezer a lot of revenue because people are actually leaving. A dark mode or a native Linux client probably won't drive people away.

I'm actually a bit mad I was so stupid to move from the gapless Google Music to Deezer.

I suspect this is at least partially caused by using the MP3 format. I'm not familiar with the exact details but MP3 stores sound in snippits of a fixed length.

Not if it is vbr. I'd guess the problem is buffering the next song before it starts, but that shouldn't be that difficult to fix.

RyanMcCoskrie wrote:

I suspect this is at least partially caused by using the MP3 format. I'm not familiar with the exact details but MP3 stores sound in snippits of a fixed length.

Google Play Music uses MP3, yet has no problems with gapless playback.

Yep, Deezer really needs a gapless/continuous playback, for albums like Nonagon Infinity it's a must that cross-fade doesn't really aid for being too finicky to get the feeling of continuous playing without blending parts of the music that weren't supposed to, and virtually not being able to use in the browser because Flash is dead and no browser supports it anymore. Like, it could just be an option to do what cross-fade does but putting a 0 second overlap.

Please add a crossfade option to your controls to provide smooth transition between tracks. Should work on all platforms, not just iOS.

Jordi Mateu Soler wrote:

I have a problem when it comes to listening certain kinds of records, specially conceptual albums such as The Wall by Pink Floyd, in which there are no spaces between the songs in the original recording. When I listen to it here through Deezer I come across a disturbing gap everytime a song finishes. Is there a way to avoid that?

Thank you.

Jordi Mateu

Dark Side of the Moon is the classic examples but there are many other examples. Of course we have The Wall by the same group. Almost all albums by Jean Michel Jarre. A lot of classical albums, maybe the majority. Stuff like Mahler's Eight is completely unlisteningable on Deezer. I can't expect these gets played at all actually.

The fact that they don't fix this might indicate they have made some poor decision early in their development, like how they coded all their music or somthing on a low level in the app. It's really sad. I'll probably go for another service quite soon since I tend to listen to a lot of "gapless" music.

oortone wrote:

Dark Side of the Moon is the classic examples but there are many other examples. Of course we have The Wall by the same group. Almost all albums by Jean Michel Jarre. A lot of classical albums, maybe the majority. Stuff like Mahler's Eight is completely unlisteningable on Deezer. I can't expect these gets played at all actually.

The fact that they don't fix this might indicate they have made some poor decision early in their development, like how they coded all their music or somthing on a low level in the app. It's really sad. I'll probably go for another service quite soon since I tend to listen to a lot of "gapless" music.

The worst part is that they seem to be the only streaming service that doesn't support gapless playback, it was not something that i thought would still be an issue in 2018.

anyway i am back on Spotify with gapless playback

Darren.Jones wrote:

The worst part is that they seem to be the only streaming service that doesn't support gapless playback, it was not something that i thought would still be an issue in 2018.

anyway i am back on Spotify with gapless playback

I do prefer the way Deezer gives fast and easy access to sound settings like equalizer in a way Spotify doesn't. I use that a lot.

But gapless must be implemented soon for me to stay.

Hey you guys,

Ever thought of incorporating crossfader feature? It's the only thing missing on this brilliant app. I'm too used to crossfader from my many years of using Winamp (PC) and Poweramp (android).

Perhaps this crossfader feature could work on offline/downloaded playlist to reduce performance issues?

Regards
Mr Black (South Africa

Why can't Deezer play music without gaps ?

Chris1753 wrote:

Why can't Deezer play music without gaps ?

Please vote for this idea above 🙂

@Rafael.
Many customers already have voted for this feature...sorry for the rant but I have to think:
a) You know that crossfade is not gapless but really it's not that important --> you don't care what many customers are demanding
b) It's technically a mess almost impossible to implement. In this case I'd prefer an official statement from the Company.
Thanks a lot

Deezer team, if you do not install the crossfade ability in the next days, I fear that out of all the streaming services that provide this, you will have to be awarded the infamous GOLDEN PINEAPPLE AWARD. Do you really want that on your CV !!! Sleepless nights ahead for you!

Hi there, we are aware that this feature is not available on all of our apps. Can you please specify on which app you would like this to have?