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One Hit Wonder
January 16, 2020
Answered

Deezer Desktop App - does not keep me logged in and too many Captchas

  • January 16, 2020
  • 242 replies
  • 7792 views

For some reason the desktop app (OS 😵 doesn’t keep me logged in, so I periodically need to sign in again.

 

Doing so requires spending 2-3 minutes clicking on pictures of traffic lights and fire hydrants.

 

This is absolutely ludicrous behaviour for a *desktop* app. Honestly, the desktop app shouldn’t auto-logout at all. If you are so worried about robots, then switch to 2-factor authentication or something.

Best answer by Rudi

Hi all,

Thank you for all the answers provided so far - very helpful! Our developers who are investigating this problem have asked for more info from you to speed up the process. Could you please tell us:

  • Do you have to log in every time you relaunch the app or is this happening every time the app gets an update?
  • When you get logged out, can you log back in straight away or you need to restart the app?
  • Have you downloaded the app from the Windows Store or using a direct link for the .exe file?

Let us know the most you can, it can help us fix this quicker :thumbsup_tone2:

242 replies

korg250
Rising Star
Rising Star
May 6, 2020

Hi all,

Thank you for all the answers provided so far - very helpful! Our developers who are investigating this problem have asked for more info from you to speed up the process. Could you please tell us:

  • Do you have to log in every time you relaunch the app or is this happening every time the app gets an update?
  • When you get logged out, can you log back in straight away or you need to restart the app?
  • Have you downloaded the app from the Windows Store or using a direct link for the .exe file?

Let us know the most you can, it can help us fix this quicker :thumbsup_tone2:

  • Every time the app gets an update, apparently.
  • Straight away, but I always need to solve a reCAPTCHA .
  • Windows Store.

Thank you.

Rudi
Ultimate Superstar
Ultimate Superstar
May 6, 2020

Thank you for all the info and feedback provided @korg250 @berglisound - will forward these :thumbsup_tone2:

Roadie
May 7, 2020

Had to go through ANOTHER captcha today, not even a month after the last one.  If my BANK had this kind of “security” - which they don’t - I’d say they were going too far.  Keep me logged in unless I log out, and quit asking me to click on fire hydrants.

Roadie
May 8, 2020

I’m switching to the browser player for now.

But if this crap doesn’t get solved I’m switching to Spotify. How hard can it be to ask for captcha only on login failure? This is ridiculous and tremendously frustrating.

Thankfully I took the time to check and see I’m not alone, but I’d bet many users would just give up on this and switch to another streaming service.

I’m a loyal customer since 2014, please don’t let us down.

Thanks.

Guitar Hero
May 9, 2020

This captcha is really annoying. Sometimes is just give up and go to my local plex server because is so frustrating try dozen times to login into Deezer. I'm considering stop using Deezer and moving to another streaming service. Remove this "feature”, please!

Roadie
May 11, 2020

It seems each time a new version of the windows app is pushed onto microsoft store i have to re-login. this is very annoying because we forcibly have to go through re-captcha, hence feeding google ai, something i really don’t want to do.

Please  make sure you keep credential between updates.

Rudi
Ultimate Superstar
Ultimate Superstar
May 11, 2020

Hey @LeonardoCPacheco @lou.wyss @DJ_Zephyr @stefb and everyone,

Thank you for your feedback and patience. We're very close to sorting this up in one of our new releases. I'll let you all know once I get more details :wink:

Roadie
May 14, 2020

Hi,

Deezer (Desktop 4.19.200.0, Windows 10 1909) keeps logging me out randomly. Every few days or so. Sometime two times in single day.

After that I have to go through clicking busses and trafic lights. And crosswalks too. It takes up to several minutes. It is extremlly frustrating experience.

I see that people having the same problem for quite some time now. When do you plan to fix it?
 

Best regars,

Zoran

 

Guitar Hero
May 14, 2020

I’ve posted repeatedly about the auto-logouts and failing captchas.  Some shrill named Rudi keeps answering “We’re working on it.”  The only correct work is to remove it, but you can’t even manage that.  How long does it take to remove a feature?  In my expert-level, professional opinion, 1 hour and a cycle of testing.  Whatever you are doing is failing.  Today, months into this issue, I was auto-logged off, and forced to login twice because the first captcha failed.  This is not acceptable customer service.  And so I am ending my subscription. I find the YouTube Music App to be refreshing and as functional as Deezer.  Stitcher will give me more podcasts than Deezer.  I’ve always paired Deezer with Soundcloud.  My idea is to tell all Deezer Subscribers to change their subscriptions to a music service that listens to the needs of their subscribers.  Maybe one or more of the above will work for them.  Almost certainly less annoying than Deezer.

Rockstar
May 15, 2020

Hello @zperak, actually our team is working right now on a new version of the app with a much better user experience regarding the authentification, that won’t have this amount of Captchas. We’re looking forward to it as much as you are, we’re also users after all.

Have a nice weekend

https://www.deezer.com/en/profile/3421485864