Deezer playlists with Amazon Alexa

3+ years and still no update.  Please stop saying “coming soon” its when obviously not coming anytime this decade.

Thought I would check in on a whim again and the skill still has not been updated? Really?

Yup, still no updates….

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results." Albert Einstein 

It looks like all of us Deezer users must be insane if we keep believing that we will ever be able to listen to our playlists on Alexa. 

Perhaps it is time for a mental health holiday and find another streaming service. 

Apple Music and Spotify are fully functional options with Alexa…..

@musicfanatic815 , I’m being borderline pedantic, but indulge me and define “fully functional”?

By telling Alexa to play a playlists, genres etc….

deezer is capable of that by your definition.

you classed apple and spotify together, as distinct from deezer, hence my question, which you didn’t answer.

no worries, moving on.

cheers

G

For me only thing Alexa does is play “flow” and specific artists that i request from Deezer. Alexa has not been able to play specific playlists from Deezer.  Alexa also does not allow “liking” tracks from Deezer either.  Those functions work just fine with Alexa when used with Spotify of Apple Music. 

@musicfanatic815 ,

I have a number of Echo devices and use them daily. Deezer will play genres, artists, genres, songs, albums, and playlists on requests. Not sure how you are using it.

Spotify has Spotify Connect, which is unique and adds functionality, at the expense of being Spotify.

Apple does not allow control from your phone or computer the way Spotify Connect and Amazon Music do (casting). It does allow for the use of personal playlists. Spotify and Apple are not even close in functionality.

Every music service has its own level of functionality with respect to the Alexa skills. Tidal is also extremely limited, Qobuz and YouTube Music don’t work at all (save Bluteooth), and Amazon Music of course works well.

My point, I suppose, is that only Spotify and Amazon Music might be considered “fully functional.” Deezer has done extremely well considering what it has achieved compared to the other services, and given its comparative size and resources.