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Guitar Hero
October 14, 2018
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Chromecast not playing uploaded MP3s on Deezer

  • October 14, 2018
  • 45 replies
  • 1186 views
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. 

45 replies

Guitar Hero
May 8, 2024

Video sent 3 days and 1 day ago still not received any response!!!

Guitar Hero
May 13, 2024

Hello Deezer

Am I going to get a response - now over a week since I did as requested and sent you a video!

Rising Star
November 29, 2025

Amazingly seven years later it does not work yet.

 I stick with Deezer for many reasons but it really amazes me how difficult it seems to be for Deezer to implement essential features hugely demanded and available in all other music platforms. And how easily Deezer alters or deletes features that everybody was happy with. 

If you can not cast your own MP3 to your Chromecast and your music system the whole feature of MP3 uploads becomes useless except for listening in your mobile which is definitely not an ideal way to listen to music.

Rising Star
November 29, 2025

By the way, what I usually do to listen to my uploaded MP3 is playing them from the Deezer website in my TV browser (connected to my audio system). It works fine. 

Hitmaker
April 28, 2026

Same exact problem here

 

Come on Deezer!