Linux needs a native client for Deezer!

pochopsp wrote:

@siphothanks for your awesome work. I installed it and all went good but at I get an error at the login, which won’t allow me to get to the main page. Here’s a screenshot so you can understand better:

 

@pochopsp That error might be because Deezer is not assigned to the “deezer://” URL protocol handler. My build script includes a .desktop file which automatically does this. Confirm that you have “/usr/share/applications/deezer.desktop” on your system and that it contains “MimeType=x-scheme-handler/deezer;” If your system does have the file, perhaps it just hasn’t registered the URL handler yet. A restart might help.

P.S. Sorry for taking so long to respond, Gmail put my Deezer community notifications in Spam.

Also I want to mention, that I am not aware of any streaming service, providing native Linux app, other than Spotify. And as @Alblinux has mentioned, their app has some technical issues. So if your team would be able to make a decent native app, you would attract not only Spotify users, but many other Linux users, that do not use any streaming service because of that and because Spotify is not available in all regions. And as it was mentioned before, it is not really hard to port it on Linux since it uses Electron technology.

Hello @Alblinux and @flygrounder, your arguments are very much valid, there’s no denying that. Even though we’re working on many projects at the moment with different priorities, one of the biggest part of our job is to forward your opinions and requests to our teams. We can assure you that we’re all aware of the demand for a Linux client, and we’ll keep pushing for it as so many users are requesting it. We really hope to get back to you all with a good news soon enough, I know it’s frustrating that we cannot give you a precise release date, but we will let you know as soon as we have more information.

Have a nice week

Hello,

I use https://snapcraft.io/deezer-unofficial-player on Linux with my family account. For few days now, it doesn’t work anymore with a message “Ne courez plus après le temps perdu, Deezer ne s'utilise désormais plus avec cette version de votre navigateur.

Spotify provide a Linux application why not doing the same ? Why not asking the dev whether you can get the code already working ?

Thx,

643 votes now. It’s feel that there are so much people searching the same.. to use deezer in linux

Thanks for the support @Alblinux 

Hey @b_nounours check the info shared above, hopefully it'll help. And don't forget to vote! 

you have options apart from official support: the best approach IMHO is the aur deezer package that at least have one ubuntu package in some point of this thread, test it, may be you have luck. I am using the deeser aur package and it’s awesome.

Just another user of a linux based OS, here, looking for an alternative to Spotify, hoping that an officially supported version appears before my trial runs out…...

almost 650 votes and no linux version or date yet. Come on deezer!

The Linux users really need this!

I am reluctant to install from unofficial sources, so I am eagerly awaiting to the linux version.
at least launch the beta tester as mentioned here

Hej all, anyone tried running deezer in a virtual/emulated environment? For example:

• run Android in a VirtualBox, then run the Deezer App on Android
• or run the Deezer Windows app using WINE / Codeweaver’s Crossover

Anyone has experience with this?

cheers, Kai 

Hi @tobert. There is actually no need to run Deezer through Wine since it’s an Electron app. This means it can run natively on Linux with only a few minor tweaks which the community has already conveniently made. @SibrenVasse put a lot of work into finding these tweaks and created an AUR package for Arch Linux which you can get from here https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/deezer/. Alternatively, if you are using Ubuntu or another Debian derivative, you can try my fork of SibrenVasse’s package available here https://github.com/siphomateke/deezer.

It’s actually dead simple to port Deezer’s desktop app to Linux but I think Deezer just doesn’t want to support the thousands of Linux distributions and the bugs that come with them. Hopefully, they’ll soon adopt these community efforts and make an official version available.

Hi sipho, thanks for pointing this out. I tried your fork previously but some library on my system was not recent enough to meet the requirements; some node.js dependencies, iirc (I’m running last year’s Mint 19.3, so based on Ubuntu 18.04). Thanks for your effort of providing the Ubuntu/Debian installer though! I’ll try again once I upgrade to more recent libraries. 

cheers, Kai

If you last tried the fork more than 8 days ago, you should try it again. I changed the install script to manually pull the correct version of Node.js rather than relying on the distributions version. Your issue might be fixed.

If it hasn’t been fixed, I might try and take a look at the install script to make it support older versions of Node.js. It doesn’t actually need a particularly new version to run. There is just one code formatter used to patch Deezer that does. I could probably use an older version if using new versions of Node.js is difficult for a lot of people.

Worked like a charm!

Thank you so much - everything’s so much better with music :-)

Okey we have here some words about the Linux version but.. there is nothing more that a few problems that I don't understand well. Release pipeline?

Problems with the updates manager?

I think is too easy. Too much for being problems . Because the release it's not a problem I think at all if I understanding well , the date can be when you want it.

And the management of updates are simply. If you want go to all-in way. Flatpak (or snap but I prefer flatpak)  repo and all is done. You can update all people with  a simply update in your repo. The repo flatpak manager in them distribution are going to do the rest. You don't need to do nothing in your app at all for the updates. If you want is possible to make a deb package and the rest of packagers are going to catch if interested and try to put in them distributions so no problem here.

Then.. @Rudi  can you make a some research about this? Because that answer for me it's fair from clear if not a lie . Because I think if the rest is ready you can release the version right now and little by little put in it resources

Last time I checked, the native Linux client was high up in the list of “Got an idea” by user votes (second only to night/day themes and a longer favorite tracks list). So why would you “unprioritise”?

Hello @tobert and @Alblinux, it’s indeed one of the biggest topics in the ‘Got an Idea’ forum. And as Community Managers, it is our job to show it to the teams, however the popularity of the topic is not the only factor that has to be weighed unfortunately. I can’t really speak technically as I just don’t have the skills. Just know that we’re not giving up and we keep pushing for this to become a reality. Sorry that I’m not able to give you more precise information yet.

Have a nice day

+1 vote for this to happen. If not popularity nor feasibility then money is the reason why?

It's on the plans @Shanni it's got a lot of votes, it just needs to be squeezed in with other priorities 

Pretty interesting, two years of discussions and seems like the guys really don’t care if some percents of users move to Spotify which HAS native linux client.

Solus user, checking back in after 1.5 years, seems there’s a little more traction.

Any of you gents have an interim solution for Solus?