Deezer playlists with Amazon Alexa

Very @Soloist 

We've had several releases since, worked by the same teams - so I must admit my  prediction was a bit off and for that I'm sorry. We're running a bit behind on this.

I've been waiting for an update on it as well, but like in any other tech company, timescales get adjusted considering any unplanned circumstances. So I'll ask for you to extend your patience a bit longer, and for you to keep tabs with me directly so that we can follow this closely 

Totally understandable @Soloist both for being doubtful and for the fact the feature is really important to you.

Like I said, I believe we're running late because of the other features and fixes we've been releasing recently. If you're subscribed to the topic you'll get a notification when I bring in some good news.

Hopefully it won't be long, I'd love to have you back!

sad to say that but I have to leave. You don't want to release this important feature since years (!!!) but only come up with excuses.

Goodbye deezer

I just subscribed to Deezer after reading that it is compatible with Amazon Alexa, but I can’t play my personal playlist.  Playing my personal playlist has represented about 90% of my smart speaker usage. Can I get my money back?  Deezer is nearly useless to me if I can’t play playlists.

And again 4 months have passed.

Where is the new Alexa-skill that can handle playlists? Where is the beta-version? When is the release date?

Well, I know that's not very polite or patient but anyway, we already got three years of procrastination for a mandatory functionality that every other streaming provider offers.

I, too, am on a trial period with Deezer and use my Amazon Echo Studios as my primary speakers. Apple Music, Amazon Music, and Spotify all permit playing one’s own playlist. Tidal does not, and Qobuz doesn’t work at all on my Echo Studios.

Amazon Music HD sounds fantastic and its catalog is exhaustive, but Alexa Cast is buggy and Amazon Music in general is unreliable, frequently stopping the music play, sometimes (oftentimes) after the first song. So I support Deezer getting this right before releasing it. But yes, three years is a long time for this project.

Spotify Connect is the gold standard in my opinion, it makes using the Echo Studios a real pleasure. But so far I prefer Deezer for the sound quality (which exceeds Spotify’s IMO), the user interface (including a pleasant color palette and layout), the song catcher feature, the smooth music play, and the overall feel of the app. Spotify’s pending hi-fi may close the gap for me, especially given their noticeably larger catalog, but I want to love Deezer.

Apple has no casting feature, but playing my playlists is a big plus, and their sound quality has improved with the lossless, Dolby Atmos, et al. upgrades. They seem to have every song imaginable.

Tidal sounds great, but even with my excellent wi-fi, it has buffering issues. And Tidal connect does not work with Echo, and no personal playlists through Alexa. It does help that they name the daily playlists by number, “My Mix 2”, which makes it easy for Alexa to recognize and play them. Deezer’s use of “daily” for all of their daily mixes means I cannot listen to them through Alexa (unless I am missing something?).  So re-naming those or implementing a connect feature would be huge.

All said, Deezer has an opportunity to join the ranks of my streaming services. A Spotify Connect-style feature would cement that, and being able to play the daily playlists and my own playlists would certainly help.

Thank you to whoever is reading and listening.

G

 

How close is almost?

I’m on my second trial sub’ with Deezer and I cancelled it last time (two years ago!) because it didn’t work properly with Alexa and it still doesn’t! There are millions of active Amazon Echo devices in the world and the biggest single purpose they’re used for is music streaming and Deezer doesn’t think that’s a priority feature?

It’s not just the fact that I can’t request any personal playlists using Alexa, it’s the fact that when you request Deezer Editor playlists you don’t always get those either, you get some obscure album or band with a name that’s vaguely similar.

You can’t enable Shuffle Mode on any of the available playlists.

If I request my ‘Monday Discovery’ playlist I get what appears to be someone else’s Monday Discovery playlist full of awful stuff I have never listened to.

So it seems you don’t give any priority to music or playlists previously played or favourite-d on each account, you just flail around looking for something with a vaguely similar name and play that? The Deezer app’s are good but Deezer on Alexa is just clueless. Are you ever going to sort this out or do I just switch back to Spotify again?

Deezer has been saying that they're working on this and that the feature is coming very soon and just to have a bit more patience for the last two years, it really is a joke now. 

I love Deezer but this should be a priority for them. It's obviously not as simple as a few lines of code but if Amazon and Spotify can do this (and it's a big thing for me) I might switch. Streaming in hifi doesn't bother me I just don't want to have to keep Bluetooth connecting my phone to my Alexa to be able to play from my playlists.

Please, hurry am tired of calling out each song every time. #PlaylistsOnAmazonAlexa

I wanted to chime in as my annual membership is coming up for renewal.  The playlists are definitely an ongoing concern for me, most specifically because of the trouble I have of playing anything that does not have an English name that Alexa can identify properly.  Oh the constant headache of selecting songs by “Gabri Ponte”…..

I’m hoping for some good news on the new skill, especially as I use this more and more in my car via Echo Auto.  In the meantime, I think I’m going to have to revert to the free service and give a shot at Amazon Music monthly hoping for the best here.

Love Deezer, then discoverability of My Flow is mostly awesome, but that playlist support...

Thanks for that!  Yes, routines work as a way to select particularly difficult artists, though no substitute for actually playing your own play lists which would be ideal. 

Hoping that new skill comes soon!