Remote control music on another device / Device discovery

A Deezer “Connect” is needed. At this point, Tidal, Spotify, and Apple (kind of) have it.
I am on the start of a three month Deezer trial. This one small feature is holding me back. Spotify is the one to beat. Irrespective of their poor max streaming quality. But if they (or Apple) suddenly offer HD, Deezer and others will be in a worse position.
- I think the “low end” should be 16 bit/44.1 kHz, like it was in the 1970s! :-/
Let the audiophile maniacs pay more for stuff they cannot hear above that.

- The regular folks deserve lossy option for mobile and vehicle use but also CD quality for home.

- Right now, I can play Spotify 320 on any Echo device and control it with Spotify on my phone. 
The only mistake Spotify on Echo made is, you have to verbally tell it to play. Well, if you were playing heavy metal the night before, this is no good! 
Selectable Echo or Echo groups from Spotify would make much more sense.
Deezer could immediately gain a lot of Echo user ground by not making that simple UX mistake.
But a “Connect” ability in ANY form will be good for Deezer. Then improve it…

I agree with @xanthum. If Spotify adds HiFi, even “just” CD quality, then all the other platforms are done. But, people have been asking them for HiFi for years and they don’t seem to care about that. Maybe they’re in cahoots with other streaming platforms to make people buy other subscription services.

Just switched from Spotify, but this omission is a reason for me to switch back!

can’t find new releases in my Sonos app for instance. ☹️

This is the functionality that is stopping me from moving from Spotify to Deezer.

I love the ability to be able to be listening on my laptop, move the stream to my Alexa if I move to my bedroom and move it to my phone when I go for a walk. All this without even stopping the stream or having to login into a different app and search again for what I was listening.

To a certain extent I understand the fact that “Deezer doesn’t have the same development power and resources than its competitors”, but the final price for the user doesn’t reflect this, and Deezer charges the same price as the “competitors”.

This Connect feature should be prioritised IMHO.

Idea: 

Maybe Deezer can do something with Server - Cliënt Control. 

Remote through Wifi ip-adress most be possible? 

Any news here? I‘m sure we all still miss this feature..

> Remote through Wifi ip-adress most be possible? 

Probably never, local network communication doesn’t exist for such services, unfortunately.

Also all the ways of making it work I can imagine are way too nerdy (as in “requires to know what an ip address is”) for a mainstream user, so even more never than never :(

Again, one way of getting this to work without waiting for another few years is an independent project using Deezer API, but it’s a bit hard to commit to without any evidence of people being interested in using it that way and Deezer being friendly to it (== not suddenly deprecating stuff that may be essential for such application).

i used to love deezer but sadly had to move to spotify due to this situation. i still think deezer has a better UI and easier music discovery, sadly the connect feature is very important to many.

Yeah there are many features that make deezer more charming than Spotify but not having an adequate option to listen on a variety of devices e.g. Musiccast it eliminates the argument for the HI-FI plan imho. Also (to speak clearly) cannot understand that deezer dont provide any forecast when it will be available or what’s the current state of this feature.

Means is it worth to stay and wait with inconveniences for a short while or go back to Spotify to finally be able again to have a seamless integration?

Guys there’s a huge amount of upvotes over serveral similar topics and these are the people who are proactive and report inconveniences.
It’s generally clear that a majority of people won’t write into the forum but make a decision after a trial period. 

Finally it’s a business calculation 🤷🏼‍♂️.