plugin for logitech media server

This is GREAT news for the Deezer/LMS community. Well done Philippe44! for giving the Deezer subscribers some hope that we can still use Deezer with LMS.

Lets hope that Deezer cooperate and play their part in implementing this new Deezer plugin.

Cheers

coypu

https://en.deezercommunity.com/features-feedback-44/logitech-is-closing-mysqueezebox-servers-78309?tid=78309&postid=235803#post235803

A somewhat semi official response from Deezer? Fingers are crossed that community managers are included in product and dev meetings and discussions.

FYI I created a dedicated topic on the French Community site to gather as many users as possible (including an English version) :

https://fr.deezercommunity.com/ideas/api-exhaustives-pour-plugin-lms-et-autres-egalement-pour-des-fonctionnalites-iso-app-smartphone-sur-tout-type-de-systemes-rpi-squeezebox-squeezelite-musiccast-heos-wiim-bluesound-42963

We’ll probably see more People here after the 19th of march (shutdown of the mysqueezebox.com).

I'm sure that a number of concerned users don't express their opinion as long as everything's running smoothly.

I guess some people just don’t engage in the technical and engineering side of how a streaming service like Deezer works, as you say “as long as everything’s running smooth” they will not get involved when there is major issue that could potentially spoil their listening experience…….they may wake up and smell the coffee on the 19th March unless there is a fix between Deezer and Logitech before then.

I imagine they will be quite a few punters that will jump ship and go to another streaming service without campaigning to keep Deezer/LMS running together as a great service for the music industry…...yes we must not forget it’s all about the music we all love.

Cheers

coypu

The strange thing is that there no reaction at all…
This thread received 126 (!) votes within a month.

I also hope there will be a reaction and a positive response - see my reply in the other forum:
Logitech Plugin revenue calculation

Br, 

Carsten

I switched to Deezer from Spotify a while ago. This was mainly prompted by a number of artists that my family like pulling their catalogues from Spotify. However, it was the fact that LMS integration was available which made this a viable choice. I have to say that during the time I was using it, Spotify integration worked quite well so maybe I will have to go back to that or look into other services.

Hi, as @Leonídia.Deezer  already mentioned in another topic, our teams are currently looking  if there is any possibility to bring Deezer back, however, we don’t want to give any false expectations that it will happen.

So please stay tuned and keep an eye here and on Logitech forums, as there may be a workaround available. We will inform you if there’s any official method to use Deezer again on Squeezebox.

As it stands right now, it’s looking like Deezer is the only major streaming service to disappear when mysb.com/mysqueezebox.com officially shuts down March 19th(?)

Logitech Media Server (LMS) already had many native plugins for various streaming services/radios, but relied on legacy mysb.com/mysqueezebox.com site for connections to others because the open source community couldn’t get answers.

Over time that has appeared to have changed with the other supported services - but not Deezer.

Now new native ones are actively being built or maintained by the the open source community for:

• Pandora (Pyrrha)
• Tidal (Tidal local)
• Spotify (Spotty)
• QoBuz
• Many others including a bunch of native radio plugins

In 2020 Tidal was the big kid on the block and I almost went with them, but instead I chose the smaller underdog site with what I considered the better iPhone app at the time.

My annual subscription is up in November(?) subscription. With 1000’s of favorited albums & tracks and playlists created the switchover will be painful but if there is no movement by Deezer that allows credential passing/stream access so the open source community to build a plugin -certainly by mid-year- I’ll be forced to start the switch likely to Tidal.