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November 9, 2017
Replied by Deezer

Linux needs a native client for Deezer!

  • November 9, 2017
  • 350 replies
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I know that exist a client for Windows and Mac, but I can't to find any one for Linux. In my opinion the web version es pretty bad and the company can develop a port for their client.
I think that is important to cover all the platforms for all the users.
Pinned Reply By sipho

I recently created an Ubuntu script to install Deezer based on the fantastic work done by IlyaGulya and SibrenVasse on an AUR package for Arch Linux. It should work on Debian too since Ubuntu is based on Debian, but I haven't tested it.

You can view instructions on how to install it here https://github.com/siphomateke/deezer. It's not at all official and isn't guaranteed to work with future Deezer versions but it's what I am now using.

I'm not sure why Deezer hasn't added support for Linux yet considering the Deezer desktop app for windows is an Electron app and runs just fine on Linux with a few minor tweaks.

Hopefully this helps my fellow Ubuntu users.

350 replies

Roadie
October 2, 2018
This. Tidal allows lossless streaming in browser but its recommendations SUCK hard. I wanted to jump to Deezer hoping to get the best of both and nope. Sigh. Please either allow lossless streaming in the browser or add a native client.

In dev terms the MVP is lossless streaming in the web browser, then electron based wrappers like Nuvola or MellowPlayer will act fine as native-ish clients.

The hard work of the in-browser flac decoding is already done - https://github.com/audiocogs/flac.js
Roadie
October 3, 2018
The fact that I cant stream HIFI in my desktop work environment makes me sad. Neither on my phone.
Roadie
October 5, 2018
WHEN?

not one post from Deezer staff in here..

back to spotify we go?
One Hit Wonder
October 7, 2018
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
Guitar Hero
November 7, 2018
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

I guess that what we ask for is a Deezer client for the most popular distributions, at least those that Spotify supports.
Roadie
November 7, 2018
It looks like we do not matter for Deezer. We are just garbage for them. Not a single awnser from staf. 😥😡
Hitmaker
November 8, 2018
Don't worry guys, you're just as garbage to Spotify as you are to Deezer. Speaking from experience.

I'd like to see a Linux version as well. Don't know what's holding them, really, since their Mac app is merely a web page complete with CSS styles and javascripts repacked into an app with a FLAC decoding function built in. They haven't invested in their desktop app to make it a first class Mac citizen. Hell, they cannot even be bothered to provide better styles for that huge web page. Many people have been asking for dark mode for some time and got nothing.
Roadie
November 9, 2018
Don't worry guys, you're just as garbage to Spotify as you are to Deezer. Speaking from experience.

Lol, as far as I know Spotify has linux client
Hitmaker
November 9, 2018
Indeed it does. That doesn't make you less garbage to them. There is a multitude of issues that Spotify refuses to even talk about. For example, when they removed messaging there was a forum thread well over 200 pages and they simply ignored all of it. When someone submitted that as an idea, Spotify quietly removed it. After doing "maintenance" on the forums the number of pages in that thread accidentally shrank to 63. So... yeah. They do have Linux client which works fine.
Roadie
November 11, 2018
The deezer web client does not work on Raspbian, the Raspberry Pi OS. This is too bad, I would like to use my raspberry pi and its screen as a Deezer front-end ;(

The reason is that there it seems flash plugins does not exist for raspberry, and I don't know why html5 does not work as well... So I +1 the linux plugin, which I hope may be compatible with Raspberry Pi platform.