Roon compatibility with Deezer

Please make integration with Roon possible! Than I will be Deezer Hifi customer! At his moment Roon has TIDAL Hifi  and Qbuz high-res integration but I prefer Deezer Hifi...

Hi there @munich 

Thank you for the reference. I've passed it to our product managers. We're not opposed to an integration with them, and as I could see from Danny's reply, it's on their business team to refresh the contact with Deezer after so many years. We're also not exclusive to Sonos anymore. And developers from other companies can have the support of ours and develop their own app using our resources, like many. That's what probably happened in the past :thumbsup_tone2:

Thanks for the feedback @Jannemanishere @Kai.B. :thumbsup_tone2:

A key feature of Roon for me is tags: if tags were available in Deezer I’m not sure I’d ask for Deezer ↔ Roon integration.

I have Roon and Tidal (as well as Deezer Hifi), it’s so easy to tag an new album with a tag like “listen_tonight” for future references. I feel limited in Deezer, the only customs I can do are likes and download (I use the download feature for albums/tracks I want to “listen tonight”)

Tags is something we've been discussing about for quite some time now, @ewauc. So thank you for your continuous feedback :wink:

Roon 1.7 (Valence) just came out.

Most of the new features are around the streaming apps. Roonlab claims the “new releases for you” and “recommended for you” features are better that what the streaming apps are proposing.

https://blog.roonlabs.com/roon-1-7-valence/

I bet this is accurate but can’t test it since Deezer does not integrate with Roon yet. A pity. 

We see that Roon has put more emphasis on streaming music than on user’s own library. May be it is time for Deezer to reconnect with RoonLab and build a partnership.

Who’s silly enough to ignore a potential additional source of revenue ?  :) 

@Rudi any news from your product managers regarding Roon Labs?

Did the business development team of Roon Labs get on contact with Deezer?

Hey @frefre 

Thank you for your detailed feedback - you have made some interesting points. Happy to pass it on.

At the moment we haven't had further contact from them @munich but feel free to bridge that gap within their community

Stepping in by saying that Roon would be indeed a perfect ecosystem for Deezer HiFi.

Thanks for your opinion @PaulZH. As a community, we're unable to endorse a device or service, we've got other departments for it. But we're always open to new integrations 

Clear. But I also understood that you expect Roonlabs to make the next move towards integration. Is this still correct?

Yes, @PaulZH. If they contact us to integrate Deezer on their side, we'll be open to discussing this 

Am I the only person that thinks this stance is ridiculous? Drop a dime and contact Roon. Do you think you’ll look weak by contacting them or something? Is this some sort of spat between senior management at the two companies? This attitude is childish.

I support this statement, but it also applies to Roon Labs (see https://community.roonlabs.com/t/deezer-support-request/1114/92?u=munich)

I’m switching to Tidal, because lack of this Roon compatibility. You some ways seem to be a little stubborn and/or slow on things (this topic, Hi-Fi family plan, lack of MQA altough the agreement is over 2 years old, lack of direct chromecast support W10...). That is a big shame, because per se Deezer is the best music streaming service.

Hi there @munich @Pasi @lquam 

Thank you for your honest feedback. I'll be passing it on to the relevant parties here at Deezer.

Yes, Deezer integration into Roon would be great!

Adding my Vote to the crowd, You guys should probably explore the Roon/Deezer integration option, it is benefecial from both poitns of view (for the users to integrate all their services in one place, and for Deezer to get more exposure and have another advantage over Spotify/Apple music which are  eating all your market shares...)

Hi @Sky-watsher @Toni01 

Thanks for supporting this suggestion! 

As an alternative to Roon integration can we at least have the possibility of adding our own music files in higher quality than MP3? It is a bit of a letdown that a Deezer Hifi subscription does not support higher quality files.

That's a good idea @niels_rasmussen. Please check our ideas forum here and leave your contribution 

Any news on this topic?