Skip to main content
MurzNN
Rising Star
Rising Star
November 7, 2017
Not for now

Provide official Deezer plugin for Mopidy music server

  • November 7, 2017
  • 22 replies
  • 4519 views
Mopidy music server https://www.mopidy.com/ is popular app for background music playing like MPD. It have extensions for popular music services like Spotify, Soundcloud, Google play, etc: https://docs.mopidy.com/en/latest/ext/backends/

Also it have Deezer integration extension https://github.com/rusty-dev/mopidy-deezer - but it is written by single volunteer and not so featurefull.

Will be good to provide official extension to Mopidy from Deezer - maybe written from scratch or via collaboration with original developer of current extension - Konstantin rusty-dev Batura.
Pinned Reply By Puffycheeses

This is a real shame, I’ve been looking for a streaming service for quite a while and Deezer had the Quality and Quantity I was looking for. However, it seems they’re actively fighting Linux support every step of the way. Both Mopidy & Tizonia worked legitimately with Deezer and now neither do. I Don't want to run Deezers Electron application on my system and even if I wanted to make an alternative it seems as is the official SDK has disappeared too.
 

It’s frustrating as this only seems to affect legitimate customers as there are many apps and tools out there that allow non-paying Deezer users to download and stream music. I’d love to be able to use an “official” CLI interface for Deezer and two WERE available but my only options now are sketchy android tools that jump through hoops to download the music, which I do not want to use...

I do understand that this issue may not be in the hands of the Deezer team but in the hands of the Record Labels and Music companies who are scared of losing their precious revenue and tracking data to third party applications but by making it difficult for a customer who WANTS to pay it's almost like I’m being pushed to sail the seven seas.

Please allow Mopidy, Tizona and other third party Linux tools access to your SDK.
(and if possible it’d be nice if the Native SDK was made re-released)

22 replies

Roadie
January 29, 2018
Well played :
https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/deezer-extension-removed/2233
MurzNN
Rising Star
MurzNNAuthor
Rising Star
January 30, 2018
Excellent! Instead of expand Deezer availability - Deezer cut it and remove all projects, that try to make Deezer more popular, integrated and available via more usage ways? Good bye Deezer, I will go to other services.
Murz
Roadie
July 23, 2018
I like the audio quality Deezer offers, but unfortunately they are not very willing to allow 3rd party developers access. This is a big downside of Deezer, and for this it makes me think about stopping Deezer 🙂
Roadie
September 13, 2018
Hmm, I'm a long time deezer customer - and now I#d love to make the usage of deezer possible for my toddlers. So I'd need access to the services of deezer via mopidy... Or we'll just switch to spotify...
Roadie
December 28, 2018
As usual, with big companies, you get either everlasting promises or no response at all when it's about Linux integration. Why? Simply because there's no immediate ROI on this. It's something selfless, far far away of companies DNA. On the other side, Deezer and others would never been able to build such a service without FLOSS.
Look at the reality, Deezer has very quickly provided Amazon Echo integration (through a skill). If Deezer was ever aiming to provide a native Linux library (even a close source one for DRM concerns), it would already been done.
I'm really asking myself about using those services (Deezer, Spotify or others). In the end, illegal downloading doesn't serve artists, but with that you play wathever you want wherever you want.
Come on Deezer, take care of all your users/clients!
Roadie
January 12, 2019
Well everything is said... Chromecast audio is being discontinued, so modipy would be a nice replacement... Maybe I will have to switch to Spotify
Roadie
January 13, 2019
+1!
Roadie
February 11, 2019
Any news on this? Seriously considering my subscription over this...
Roadie
April 23, 2019
This is messed up. Deezer, please reconsider this one. If you don't provide cross-platform integration yourself, you should in fact be thankful for volunteers doing it for you.

Will cancel my subscription otherwise.
Roadie
April 25, 2019
Oh, nice to know, that Deezer no have integration to popular 3rd extensions/app, like Mopidy and LMS (there we have some plugin, but it works bad).
Looks like I also should to look on Spotify and Google Music (which have this integration and this companies don't try to press 3rd party developers who made free plugins)