Provide official Deezer plugin for Mopidy music server

We’re not interesting for Deezer but we now know why Spotify has 50M customers and Deezer 7M, they care more for their customers...

Hi @sdesbure 

They're 2 different companies with different audiences, markets, products, models and most of all, size. We also hear a lot about their users wanting a HiFi experience, which they can't provide.

We appreciate your honest feedback, and without this we wouldn't be able to improve 

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)

Hi there @Puffycheeses 

Thank you for honest feedback. Your comments are very detailed so this helps a lot when looking into this project. I can confirm that it isn't on the plans for the next couple of months (obviously, things can change). This is so you know we're being transparent with you. We couldn't be more grateful for explaining your experience.

It is also something we'll be looking again in the future, once we completed the work on our priorities 

I have been an ardent supporter of Deezer as you offer a reasonable high quality audio experience. Unfortunately, I recently discovered this thread, and several others related to 1/ lack of support for Linux and open systems[1], 2/ active takedown of volunteer efforts [2]

[1] : 

[2] : https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/deezer-extension-removed/2233

[3] : https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2018/2018-01-12-Deezer.md

I understand that it is hard to prioritize an item like native Linux support considering the multiple distributions you will have to support. However, your active stance in taking down mopidy support is, frankly, appalling. You have now lost me as a customer. So long and thanks for all the fish. (Also, you can get me back if you can work with mopidy community to resurrect a community support plugin, at no cost to you! Help us help you)

Hey @shivanand 

Our community team wasn't aware of this. I'll pass your comments to our teams straight away!

Thank you for keeping us in the loop and for your honesty. It's much appreciated. Hopefully we can work with the extension again in the near future 

Hi @Rudi 

any news on this issue? If no official plugin is in pipeline or planned, any chance that you will lift ban on community version?

Can I ask why Deezer went against those open source projects?

Would it be ok if a mopidy plugin is built on top of the official Deezer API @Rudi ?

Hey everyone, 

I just joined this thread because I face the same issue of lacking mopidy support due to the admonished integration extension. I have to fully agree with all the criticism towards Deezer. 

@Rudi is there any news on the subject? I feel that here are many more or less easy solutions possible, if Deezer was just willing.

Joining the movement, it’s time for Deezer to catch up :)