plugin for logitech media server

The support team doesn't make any hope…

(Even if it sounds like a standard answer from the manual)

I’m in the same boat as many others here - I’ve had a Deezer family subscription for over ten years mostly due to the LMS plugin working very well. Initially I came to Deezer because their catalogue was simply stronger in some of the genres I listen to, and over the years as official support for LMS/Squeezebox was dropped by Spotify and others I was happy to learn that although not on the officially supported list, Deezer *was* “keeping the door open” for those of us who curse Logitech’s short product lifecycles.
This has kept me a loyal, and happy, subscriber until now - resisting the requests from some family members to move to Spotify thanks to Deezer still working fine on my beloved Squeezeboxes (plus me liking to support the “underdogs” on general principle).
Now, with mysqueezebox.com closing and rendering the Deezer plugin non-functional, I’ve found that there is now a plugin for Spotify that works without mysqueezebox.com, so I have to consider abandoning the Deezer ship. There would actually be an extra bonus for me switching to Spotify, as our cars have built-in Spotify support… but still I’d love to stay with Deezer, if possible.

Unfortunately, Deezer is good in ignoring paying customer needs and wishes. I will wait and hope some time. But if there is no chance for Deezer on LMS - I will leave Deezer.

The problem is maybe they don’t understand why we like using Deezer via LMS. That LMS makes possible to play music to a wide variety of audio systems, Airplay, Chromecast, Sonos, Squeezebox, Upnp, and that it integrates also with radio stations, and your personal music library. And you can pair mono speakers as stereo, do multiroom audio, and control from any type of device. That’s this versatility and freedom we would like to keep.

I for example use LMS/mysqueezebox.com to wake-up with radio in the bedroom in the morning, then listen to Deezer or my personal music on a Hi-fi system when coming home from work, using my phone only as a remote, all streaming trafic going through the server.

For all those who got used to this versatility, I’m sure they will migrate to whatever music services are available on the LMS platform, audiophiles probably to Qobuz, others to Spotify, as those are available on LMS right now.

If I were Deezer, I would try make things as simple as providing Deezer connect as a headless daemon available for any major OS. This is what Spotify did and I guess this is one of the reason for their success.

i am in the same boat.  a loyal deezer user.  i guess now the only option is qobuz.  would love for deezer to work though.  there are almost 120k actives using squeezebox.com.  most ofthem now will be looking for a solution through LMS.  

It's just a shame to see just how incompetent these people are...

I don’t think it’s incompetence.  I think they just don’t care about the Logitech Media Server Community.  

Of course it is incompetence. It is years now people are reuesting "deezer connect", dlna support, mopidy plugin ... As a general rule, all cheap Chinese streamers or open source ones are missing deezer support. I have Arylic streamer and deezer also stopped working on it although it was working for quite some while. They are plain dumb and incompetent 

I think that the inability to see that being able to use Deezer in Logitich Media Server is their only unique selling point compared to Apple music and Amazon music ( both 16 bit 44.1 khz flac services, and both integrated in Sonos etc. ) is incompetence.

Is there any news?  Unfortunately not..Or am I wrong