Remote control music on another device / Device discovery

Thank you all for your feedback. We hear you, it’s just a matter of deciding which projects have the priority with the resources we have, you may have noticed that recently many changes were brought to our products (gapless is finally here, the Family subscription offer a new account management system and we improved the authentication process of the desktop app). Hopefully we’ll be able to answer your expectations soon enough, the motivation is really here 

I really really appreciate your feedback @LFM you're aware of our limitations but also our strongest points. Can you imagine how much more we could achieve having the resources of some of the players you mentioned above? People have no idea of how much Deezer puts its effort in, comparing to others in the market. This is why our community is filled with passionate people, from me to you, who want the best music experience possible, in a unique way.

I'll be letting everyone here see your comments. Rest assured, this feature and our favourites' limit are the biggest projects that we want to tackle. As other features that have been planned and other fixes get done, we move closer to achieve bigger things, like this, for instance. But we still need the support from individuals like you, who understand the process and put faith in us delivering the best streaming service around 

Please inform me when remote control is created. I’ll sign up immediately. All my playlists are on deezer, and the user interface is way better than Spotify, but having installed Alexa in most of my house, deezer only allows me to listen to my flow. Alexa does not understand anything else. I’m now signed up to Spotify to be able to choose what I listen to, but I desperately want to move back to deezer. Remote control function is essential in this modern world. Thanks 

To be able to control the music that comes out of my tv from any device logged into the same account would be amazing, I’m surprised that this hasn’t been added already.

I agree with you @paulryan thank you for your feedback.

I've also got an Echo at home. I've been using Deezer's track mix, I personally just miss the ability to play personal playlists. For more info on this, please see here 

Hey @Cloink thank you for your support, please vote for the idea above 

Very complete!

I agree with you. I have also tried those, except Rdio, and also Qobuz,Napster. Pandora isn’t available in my country.

This is my opinion for every plataform:
 

1. GPM/YM: is great to upload songs, have up to 100k library size, it recognizes music. Disadvantages: no HiFi, no lyrics, not so many playlists, Google’s always opening and closing services, they don’t hear you, no desktop version.
2. Qobuz: fantastic sound quality, desktop version, human-made playlists,good UI,they hear you. Cons: full of bugs when loading,playing; also no idea about library size. Some prices are very expensive.
3. Tidal: love sound quality, also has a desktop version. But UI is worse than others, library is set to 10k, no lyrics, no music recognition.
4. Spotify: each day is becoming better and better. Now you can add as many songs as you want to your library, there’s desktop version, social interaction, lyrics, music remote control,crossfade, two persons plan . Things I don’t like: no HiFi, no music recognition.
5. Napster: I can’t remember now because I tried it too many years ago. I suppose it didn’t have a good UI, no music recognition, no lyrics, no social elements integrated.
6. Amazon: I’ve tried it a few times. UI is a disaster as you say, you can’t import, no music recognition, no lyrics, no social elements, they don’t hear you. Sound quality could be the only positive thing apart from their 60million songs.
7. Apple: they have lyrics, human-made playlists, integration with Apple ecosystem, 100k limit library size, option to dislike. Although there is no music recognition integrated (have to use Siri), Android version isn’t updated at the same rhythm , no HiFi. They had social integrated before, but now they don’t. In my opinion, another problem for Apple is Apple-haters, because Spotify, Tidal, Napster,Deezer,etc are music streaming brands, let’s say neutral for users, but Apple is a technology brand. That means that if you don’t like its products, prices,design , you, probably, won’t try Apple Music.
8. Deezer: lyrics,song recognition,songcatcher, HiFi, they hear us, cheaper individual HiFi plan compared to the rest, dislike option, desktop version, they changed the way to pay artists.  As negative points 2K library size , music remote control and tiny details like: doesn’t show you if a track is in a playlist, can’t set a song as alarm or ringtone. It had social integration, you could see what your friends were listening to. But now, only comments and stateeztics.
   
   I have no doubts that Spotify and Apple will have HiFi, as Amazon did, don’t know when, however, Spotify lately is working hard so won’t be weird to see it this year.
   
   Deezer is almost perfect, has some things to improve but is on the way, and once they killed 2k limit, users will feel free like a bird as Nelly Furtado’s song. Family HiFi plan is another point that we have been waiting for a long time. To be honest, Deezer resources aren’t the same as Apple,Spotify,Amazon, so I understand it takes more time for them.

Great observations, @walker!

I never used Napster, Qobuz or Pandora. These last two are not available in my country.

It is interesting that our comments are complementary. And this is essential for a more complete view of the applications. Only in this way can we contribute for having increasingly better services that meet the needs of a large and diverse profile of subscribers.

I totally agree with you. I believe that, soon, all services will have HiFi quality. Then, the price, UI and other aspects - such as music limit, lyrics, music remote control, social interaction, Desktop app - will rule.

I've been thinking about the social interaction aspect: Deezer is the best at that point. We can send messages to our followers (all or some in particular) while suggesting songs, albums or playlists. In addition, we can see what they are listening to if we go to the profile page and check the playlist called "Recently Played" (or something like that, I don't know what it's called in the English app). I used it a lot to discover new songs. At this point, Deezer is really better than Spotify, which offers a superficial social interaction ... but the advertising seems to be better than the business itself. 

Surely, now that Deezer killed 2k limit, users are free as a bird as a Lynyrd Skynyrd's song. :-)

Cheers!

Thanks for adding really really good feedback @LFM @walker - the devs here at Deezer love this type of discussion.

Your previous reply was seen by a lot of people here at Deezer @LFM 

The good news is that we're actually tackling this favourites' limit at the moment (even though it may take some time) and there's another big project on social sharing too. We're very excited and when we have more concrete info, we'll be eager to share with our community!

Hey, Im too lazy to read everything and just wondering if this is something the team is planning on working on or is working on?

I do want to control my Deezer App on PC using my Phone just like how Spotify can.

Thanks!