Deezer HiFi icon disappears when I stream to Chromecast Audio

@Rudy 

I tried another phone with the same results.  

I’ve included a photo of the Chromecast screen for your review.  If you have any other suggestions or need additional data, please let me know.

Similar to Squire23, I have my Chromecast devices connected to a Onkyo receiver.  While the Onkyo does include a native Deezer app, the navigation is horrible (nearly unusable).  Casting is definitely preferred. 

Thanks in advance for your help!

Ok, this could be a bug @JHarris @squire23

I'll be letting our devs know straight away! Thank you for the details and screenshots, super useful 

@Rudi 

Thanks for the quick follow up!

Please let me know if there’s any other information I can provide to help.

@JHarris Google Chromecast should support flac up to 24bit/96Khz according to https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/media. If you are using your TV as the audio player I don't know if it can output the audio in lossless or not, because it's not listed on the google website, just like the Nvidia Shield. If you had a Chromecast audio device you could try out the streaming capabilities of the Chromecast, but other then that i think that the audio streaming is highly compressed, in order to save data and not have any dropouts, which is what audiophiles don't want (bad audio quality). I don’t know if Tidal is making a marketing move or not, but i think that you cannot stream pure lossless audio to you TV’s chromecast, but i’m just guessing.

@Rudi and @JHarris  the HIFi badge is showing on the TV screen when I cast all the sudden. Was this fixed? If so thank you for the quick resolution!

Additional information. The HiFi badge showed when my wife was casting from her phone. When casted from my phone (using the beta app) the HiFi badge did not show. Toggling HiFI quality off, and back on again in the beta app solved the issue, and it is showing correctly.

@squire23 

Thank you for the suggestion; I was able to find a work around to get this to start working!

@Rudi 

Here’s the specific steps I took.  Hopefully this will help the team both duplicate and resolve this issue.  It seems like getting HIFI working is an initial use/setup issue, and once it’s working it appears to stay working.  The developers may have to setup a “new” account and that are used with new/factory reset Chromecast devices to duplicate this issue, FYI.

Per squire23’s suggestion, I did the following:

1. Installed and setup Deezer on my Android phone, including settings all music settings to High Fidelity in the app.
2. Cast from within the Deezer app to my NVidia Shield Pro.  I was able to play music through the cast, but the audio was not High Fidelity (both the badge was missing on the TV and the lesser audio source was noticeable.
3. While music was playing, went to the Deezer app settings on my phone and changed the Google Cast audio quality from High Fidelity to High Quality.
4. I advanced playback to the next track.  As expected, no HIFI badge.
5. While music was playing, went to the Deezer app settings on my phone and changed the Google Cast audio quality from High Quality back to High Fidelity.
6. I advanced playback to the next track.  I now have my HIFI badge on the artwork shown on the TV, and the audio source is noticeably improved!!! 
7. I advanced several more tracks.  All retain the HIFI badge and audio quality.

I now have a work around, though I don’t know how helpful those steps are to developers.  I did the following testing to provide additional info to help the Deezer team hopefully duplicate this issue and fix it in the future:

1. I stopped casting and re-casted to the same target (NVidia Shield Pro).  The capability to stream HIFI persisted.
2. I attempted to use the same phone with a new casting target (Chromecast gen 3) that has never had HIFI Deezer cast to it before.  The Chromecast displayed the Deezer screen and said “ready to cast”, but I was unable to get any audio to play from my phone.  The app on the phone showed no progress on the playback bar.  I stopped casting and tried again to the same casting target, and again I was unable to cast.
3. I reboot my phone, the NVidia Shield Pro and the Chromecast (3rd gen).  
4. I was able to cast from Deezer app on phone back to NVidia Shield Pro in HIFI immediately; no work arounds required.  It appears that you only have to do squire23’s suggestion once.
5. I installed Deezer on my Samsung Galaxy Tab A (2019) with the intent of trying with the Chromecast (3rd gen).  After installing the app and logging in, I went to the settings where it defaulted audio quality to Standard for all playback options except Google Cast, which was already selected as High Fidelity. 
6. Casting from multiple phones / tablets to multiple casting targets (NVidia Shield Pro, Chromecast) using my account all just work now.  This includes casting from devices that I had previously attempted with no success prior to trying squire23’s suggestion, which now “just work” everywhere after I performed squire23’s work around on a single phone casting to a single target.

I’m a bit surprised to see all source devices and all casting targets all suddenly working after I tried the work around a single time.  I had assumed that I would need to perform this work around either once per source (phone/tablet) or once per target (NVidia Shield Pro, Chromecast), but it appears that doing this once on my account was sufficient.

There’s one other member in our house that will be setting up a Deezer account, and I’m curious if they will also see this same issue on first use.  If they do I’ll be sure to follow-up and let you know.

@Rudi 

I just setup my wife’s account, and she also was initially unable to stream HIFI with Chromecast.  I used the same Chromecast devices that I had just gotten to work with my account.  This appears to be either an app or account setting issue, not an issue with the target Chromecast device.

I noticed that the app’s default settings were also to show “Standard” on all the audio quality settings, except for Google Cast, which defaulted to “High Fidelity”.

Casting music and toggling this setting to something other than “High Fidelity”, then back, also resolved this issue for her. 

I’m wondering whether the app’s default setting that displays “High Fidelity” for Google Casting isn’t an accurate reflection of the app’s actual setting, and toggling like squire23 mentioned fixes this.

This is very very good insight @JHarris @squire23 amazing!

So it seems users have to fiddle with the audio quality settings to trigger the HiFi casting to Chromecast in some cases!

I'll forward all of the info straight away, but please keep me posted if you observe anything else relevant. Have a great weekend 

Hi Rudi,

I’ve been facing a similar issue for a few days.

After switching off and on again my chromecast Audio, it happened that I “lost” the Hifi icon and audio quality when streaming from the deezer app running on my Samsung GS10. (latest app version as at today).

All settings are on Hifi, and I tried JHarris trick that unfortunately didn’t work. (back and forth HQ/HiFi)

Prior to that, all had been working fine for a while with the same setup (streaming device, wifi network, chromecast, devialet speakers,...) Has the deezer app version upgraded in the meantime? I’m not sure to be honnest. I just tried with the latest beta and official release app and issue is the same.

Hope you guys can figure out if that is a bug that can be fixed. CCA audio remains an excellent way to stream hi res audio from an android device to system with no built-in chromecast.

Best,

Gabriel