Linux needs a native client for Deezer!

Spotify linux application is made by spotify developers, so they can use their own streaming platform while coding.

If deezer still has no linux applcation it means one or more of those things:
1. Developers don’t use the platform they create (they probably use some other streaming services, so they don’t care how good the application is)
2. Developers are explicitly banned from porting app for linux, which means the community must do it, but deezer on purpose is blocking the possibility to do so (not documented API, not portable frameworks, etc).
3. Developers use only windows (this should explain why some procedures are taking so much time)

Doesn’t matter what is the case for the issue, but anyway there is no hope for native linux application within a year.
For me it seems like the developers have no influence on application and product owner will never accept the whole work package required for porting it to linux while none of the developers wants to do it.

I recently suspended my spotify subscription, but seems like I have to reactivate it.

Hi there @robert-km 

Thank you for your honest feedback. It is actually none of the above. As you could read from my previous post, it just hasn't been prioritised. Considering our size, we can only dedicate our resources to a number of planned features and fixes. This year has been a hard-working and improved year for Deezer, with several important milestones achieved and more to come before the end of the year - some of those which will elevate our service to different levels, certainly.

So having a Linux app is an exciting prospect - and that's why we invested in Electron to bring more possibilities to our desktop users. We certainly have a proven interest, but it can't be done at the moment. We wanted to make that a transparent answer to our community users as we're doing with all our most popular suggestions recently.

Thank you for your understanding.

You need a Desktop App for Linux as well please. The Web version is ok, but a native Linux app will be so much better. Linux Desktop users are growing and you are missing clients by not having a Linux Desktop App version available.

FOSS is the future.

Part of what I’m hearing here is: you really need to invest in improving your web app. Surely that covers a lot of this?

It's definitely linked, yes @teqteq thank you for your support.

+1 to native linux client

@Rudimy boy, the community has been so loud and clear about what we want.

Give us the damn thing already, it would be awesome! hahaha

I mean, wouldn’t you like to close this thread eh? You get replies about this every couple of days. My man, go to your next sprint review or whatever and PLEASE give em the message from the community: WE WANT NATIVE LINUX APP.

Hahaha I really appreciate your reply @Tiago Dall'Oca definitely in good spirits! 

Of course I'd like Deezer to develop a Linux app, in fact, as a community manager I'd love to announce all new features our users request. At the moment, we're not in a position to prioritise this project, which we've started in the past. But I mean for this year, with all our new features scheduled for release - not forever. So I'll definitely keep passing on the message and defending the interests of our community, by discussing this with our product managers - no doubt about it. Thank you for your support and understanding. 

 On Linux that has millions of music-consuming programmers, not having a native app is a deadly sin. Are losing are losing at least 100 to 500 thousand subscribers

Too bad, i’m a long-term Deezer user and switched to Spotify because Deezer doesn’t have a native player on linux, I can’t use my keyboards shortcut for the webplayer, also i can’t control my music on the desktop from the phone, nor i can seamless stop my music on the desktop and start playing on the phone as i leave my house, spotify is worse on the music side and quality, but not being able to do those things with Deezer is a deal breaker for me

That statement is vague at best; what plan can you use on MellowPlayer, e.g., will it support Hi Fi?

Pablum for the dolts, what an insult and revelation of intelligence.

Hey guys, just throwing in my spices. Since linux distros are becoming increasingly popular and I am running all my devices on dual boot windows/ubuntu already a deezer linux app would be indeed nice.

Hi @anphex 

Good point. I'm sure we'll be discussing this at some point soon, so will have your feedback ready. Thank you for your support 

+1 for this!
Also, based on node, electron, etc is a bad idea, native is the way to go.

I wanted to have a simple player for my kids to __just__ listen to music.

Well it seems “complicated” (aka Deezer doesn’t care and prefers to work on other stuff that I’ve not seen) whereas it’s super simple on Spotify

Thanks Deezer for pushing me into Spotify hands

Hi there @sdesbure 

Thank you for your honest feedback. It's a real shame we're unable to provide a platform for Linux as you expected.

The main point is that such a project requires several work hours from our developers at the moment - and these hours are dedicated to introducing other features also requested by users, and obviously bug fixes. We'll be gathering more feedback about this and will discuss it again soon, but unfortunately, it's not on the plans considering our capacity at the moment. Thank you for your understanding.

Two years and nothing yet? Maybe you should hire more developers haha

Maybe you're right @msnjuegos 

I guess I am one of the many Linux users who regularly read this thread since long time. It is a little disappointing that there is no official progress on the native Deezer client for Linux systems.

Is there a roadmap / backlog or something for the Deezer developers where this topic is recorded? It would be a little more satisfying if there was at least some official information that this topic has been perceived...

Hi there @Hagenzone Krone 

I'm sorry you're disappointed about that. The development of a native Linux app isn't in our roadmap any longer. Like I mentioned here before, an initial assessment was done but we couldn't prioritise it due to the demand for other features.

At the moment our resources are limited - but all feedback will continually be forwarded to our devs about this. Thank you for your understanding at this point 

The main hold up to getting a native gnu/linux app is that you don’t have the resources to code it right?  Why don’t you take a leaf out of Spotify’s book, and make it more open source?  The gnu/linux community thrive on doing these projects for the fun of it!  The quickest way to a good clean working native app would be to involve the very community that you are currently alienating by consistently pushing the project back in favour of the ‘new’ features.  At some point, as a software company, you have to make time for this project, if only to provide the very basic of customer care. Two years and no app is not just ignoring your customers, but actively snubbing them.

Hi there @Adrian.Fox-Kirk

Thank you for your honest feedback. Please refer to the posts above, this hasn't been prioritised. I'll be passing your comments to the right teams 

Could someone not just put a wrapper around the HTML client? Or would that not be good enough? I’m thinking even the OSS community could do that? Though a future architecture with an open API would benefit all (make things a lot easier for Deezer devs to propagate Deezer too).

Yes, it was done for Windows and Mac, so we just need the time to do the same for Linux, but our devs are maxed out at the moment. It's good feedback to pass, @teqteq. It'll reinforce the idea to our product managers