Chromecast not playing uploaded MP3s on Deezer

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October 14, 2018
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It used to work, but now my uploaded MP3s do not play in Chromecast. They still play fine when playing via the Android or Desktop apps.

Best answer by Superschlumpf

@americanjeff

Hi,

i‘m not sure if it‘s a legal restriction or a technical one preventing to cast uploaded mp3s.
First i also thougt it‘s a problem of licences and the reason because casting uploads on other services is possible, because they have a matching function for uploads, so that in the end it‘s not an uploaded file but a matched original server file that is used for casting. And for this file there is a licence. Apple and Google are using such an upload matching and as far as i know Deezer does not use matching.
But i testet on Googles YouTube Music with some personal uploaded files of mine that are not available on Googles catalogue. These files can‘t be found by matching and have been physicaly uploaded. So Google has no licences for these songs if they are‘t in their catalogue.
But also these files can be played by casting without any problem.
This as a fact imho it only can be a technical Problem and not a legal one.

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codebrewer

Hitmaker

Is there any update on this? I'm torn between Deezer and YouTube Music. I much prefer to support Deezer, but the ability to include uploaded music is more robust on YouTube Music which helps to fill in the holes in any music collection.

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americanjeff

Guitar Hero

Score another win for YouTube music. One of the reasons I came to Deezer was for the upload feature which works better than the 1/2 assed Spotify implementation. I'm sure mp3 uploads are kind of an edge case in terms of usage but I'm still disappointed to discover this limitation

SuperschlumpfAnswer

Deezer "Sonos Master" Legend

@americanjeff

Hi,

i‘m not sure if it‘s a legal restriction or a technical one preventing to cast uploaded mp3s.
First i also thougt it‘s a problem of licences and the reason because casting uploads on other services is possible, because they have a matching function for uploads, so that in the end it‘s not an uploaded file but a matched original server file that is used for casting. And for this file there is a licence. Apple and Google are using such an upload matching and as far as i know Deezer does not use matching.
But i testet on Googles YouTube Music with some personal uploaded files of mine that are not available on Googles catalogue. These files can‘t be found by matching and have been physicaly uploaded. So Google has no licences for these songs if they are‘t in their catalogue.
But also these files can be played by casting without any problem.
This as a fact imho it only can be a technical Problem and not a legal one.

[he/him] Deezer is music, but Deezer and Sonos is party !

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americanjeff

Guitar Hero

@americanjeff

because they have a matching function for uploads, so that in the end it‘s not an uploaded file but a matched original server file that is used for casting. And for this file there is a licence. Apple and Google are using such an upload matching and as far as i know Deezer does not use matching.

There are definitely tracks on Deezer which are not on Google but that do play when cast. This would not be possible if this content-matching theory was correct. My understanding of the cast protocol is that when casting is initiated, a URL for the media to be played is sent to the playback device and the device then streams from that URL. I would not be surprised if this was outside the scope of whatever agreement deezer has with the recording companies that allows them to have an upload feature and copyrighted content.

User-uploaded tracks are clearly handled separately, probably as part of contract compliance, but maybe also for technical reasons. It’s unfortunate that this leads to inconsistencies depending on how it’s played back. I suspect the amount of engineering required to reach and maintain absolute parity is not worth it for the amount of usage the upload feature gets.

Maybe someday… It’s too bad tho because I have a lot of music from CDs

Superschlumpf

Deezer "Sonos Master" Legend

@americanjeff

Google was just an example of a streaming service using matching for uploads. And Deezer doesn‘t use matching as far as I know. So imo that’s the reason why your own uploaded songs can’t be used for casting. I think it’s an issue of licences… Deezer has no licences for your original uploaded files.

[he/him] Deezer is music, but Deezer and Sonos is party !

Barendrecht

HI all,

I just tried this functionality for the first time today.

Found out that casting does not work, indeed. 😐

But, also Scrobbling to Last.FM does not work with own uploaded MP3s. is this a known bug?

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David Senior

Guitar Hero

I’m having same problem but with iPhone running latest 17.4 IOS AND latest Deezer app, trying to stream uploaded my MP3 files to Google home. It used to work but NOW doesn’t. The files just hang or skip to next file in the playlist. Something has changed and broken our ability to stream these files.
Very frustrating and this is going to make me look at alternative streaming services unless it’s fixed!!!