Deezer playlists with Amazon Alexa

Thanks for bumping this up @delafieldbutt we haven't heard from the teams in a while so I've chased for an update - hopefully we can get some news very soon - I also have an Echo at home and I'd die for a couple of Deezer playlists these days! 

Hi Rudi, were you able to get an update from your devs, this is a feature I think a lot of us have been waiting for for some time now.

Wow it’s Sep 2020 and this feature still hasn’t been enabled on alexa?

I just recently got an account and found this out here.
I regret signing up with deezer and gonna cancel soon...bye bye.

Hi there @SSD @Jacques Marais 

Thank you for your honest feedback.

I've taken the opportunity to ask our developers for an update on this. I'll be reaching back once I've got a response 

C'mon guys. Does it really take over a year to implement something so basic? We don't need to play general playlists, just our own playlists saved on our accounts. Third year as a premium subscriber and might be forced to move elsewhere

What does the community recommend? Actually thinking amazon music or apple music. I just need a decent library and able to play my playlists on my echo devices 

Thank you for your honesty @Montypaks

Our teams have got back to me and confirmed they're working hard to bring this to our Deezer skill but it takes a bit longer than usual as we need the device manufacturer’s help along the way. I believe we've been closer than ever before and that this should be completed in the near future. I'll be following it up to update you along the way 

This really shouldn’t even be a question anymore. Multiple years of not being able to have the Alexa skill select personal playlists with a premium account is far from acceptable.

All your competitors - Apple Music : Spotify : Amazon Music are able to integrate this function within the Alexa skill - it’s not hard to implement and month after month users here are getting the same half hearted response.

I can see lots of work being done by your devs on the iOS app - however I suspect they don’t feel voice assistants are that important, however voice assistant usage is up ten fold over the past 12months with that to quadrupole over the next 18months.

This really needs addressing, the Alexa skill is linked to each users account - there is no valid reason for it not to be able to query the personal playlist references within the database and stream each track from that on the Alexa device.

Thank you for your feedback @brookers we all agree with you it needs to be addressed. However, it isn't as simple as you described. Especially because Amazon is the manufacturer of the device and we have different developers for different apps. This is to say that we also agree we feel voice assistants are very important. Rest assured, it has been ongoing work and the rewards are going to be ready very soon.

One of the things we're currently working on is the way our catalogue integrates with the skill - and that's why sometimes you can find a certain track on the app but not with Alexa. We're automating several processes to eliminate this issue.

I have an Echo at home, and I'm personally monitoring this with the teams at Deezer so that we can get it over the crossing line in the near future. Please subscribe to the topic for updates 

hee @Rudi , just here to add to the rest; would be great if this could be developed!

best

Rik

@Rudi I'm sorry but what you're telling these poor people is absolute bullshit.

I am a software engineer myself, and developing an Amazon Alexa Skill requires zero input from Amazon whatsoever. It's an independent JavaScript application.

JavaScript is one of the easiest coding langs on the world. It's object oriented and loosely typed. So give me a direct line to your developers and let me ask them why they are too incompetent to implement things such as:

A) Stop playing random things after the requested title finishes

B) Playing, shuffling and looping songs and playlists

Because I have made an application for Amazon Alexa devices which can do exactly that with my local playlists.

So any and all excuses you and your developers are giving out here a nonsense. It's just incompetent people who scam users for money. Go Spotify or Apple Music folks.