Deezer playlists with Amazon Alexa

Hey @adrifcastr 

Appreciate your input, perhaps you can just moderate the language a bit so that it sounds more productive for the whole of the community.

This isn't a technical challenge so to speak, we can certainly develop a better integration. But I invite you to have a discussion with our developers through here and maybe we can clarify some of the real challenges when building a skill for a music streaming platform on a third-party device.

Dear @Rudi ,

this needs to be solved soon. Otherwise this is a real show-stopper.

Please update the community about any improvements of the skill.

Thank you and regards

I agree with you @florig1, thank you for your feedback and support.

Devs are aware of this, more to come in 2021, I hope. I'll definitely keep you posted!

I just switched from Google+Spotify to Alexa+Deezer as the Alexa Echo is in my opinion better for audio and Spotify couldn’t recognize my own Playlists for now with Alexa.

It seemed at first better with Deezer as when I call for one of my own Playlists it plays it. But I realized that it is played as a flow and not a playilst so shuffle is not possible.

From what I see in this thread, it is normal but the Deezer developpers are working on it.

Do you have any idea of the delay to offer us this support on Deezer ?

For me it seems the killer feature to supports our own playlist fully as the Deezer App on Alexa. So for now, I started 3 month free account on both Amazon Music & Deezer and I will end up with the best of Spotify, Deezer and Amazon Music at the end of the trial delay. For sure for audio quality sake, I will stick with Alexa a assistant / speaker.

Thank-you.

Well, this is not a big shock for me. You guys have been working on a Deezer alarm for years and have not managed to do it yet. The same goes for Deezer and Alexa integration. 

No wonder you are stock with few million users while Spotify is rocketing up its users every year. Meanwhile, you have improved the GUI, I give you that, but integration with other devices and additional features, you are way behind and you are losing the game. Why don’t you enable paid add-ons for Deezer? Developers will be keen to develop add-on(s) for your labs and sell them. 

Thank you for the feedback @YasharBSH @fmelle 

@YasharBSH we have been developing a sleep timer, not an alarm. And the feature has just been completed for both Android and iOS apps 

We certainly believe you do have a point when it comes with integration with other devices and other connectivity features. That's why we've decided to pursue this in 2021, to elevate or service to the level you deserve. We'll then focus a bit less on new features, so that we can get the essentials worked on the right way - stay tuned, you'll see progress 

Came to check if there was an update on using playlists.

Recently subscribed to premium, and this continues to be a huge problem especially in the car where I use an Amazon Auto.  Basically I am limited to “My Flow”.

I’m sure the problem is more complex than it seems, but if there was at least a way to play “Favourites” this would go along way.  

Thanks for the feedback @santama we would love to make it happen for all users but as you mentioned, it is more complex than it seems. I will pass the feedback to our developers and hopefully there will be progress during 2021.

So over a year later and still not implemented. :(

“Soon” really is a subjective term it seems.

I would just like to chime in and say I’d really love to see this. I was completely shocked it wasn’t included already as it feels pretty basic to me. I spent a few minutes confused why it kept playing some garbage when I’d ask Alexa to play my child’s playlist, before realizing it was playing someone else’s. k…?

Also, Flow is crap. It constantly plays music that isn’t even remotely similar to my interests.

Alexa support for playing specific songs is (usually) pretty good, and albums works similarly as well.

But I’d really love to see support for playing my playlists. I don’t give two craps what is on someone else’s public playlist. I make playlists because I like certain music.

Is there an estimated release time frame for this? 2021 is pretty vague. Or are there other solutions or work arounds for voice assistants to play user playlists?

I’m glad to see this is being worked on, and that other users want it as well.  I’m a little concerned about the “hopefully” bit :) ….it is pretty essential I think.

To address the questions by SikoSoft, there is no workaround I am aware of other than using the app.  I have found though that My Flow actually really works well, and is the reason I became a premium member (along with being able to upload your own songs to a private play list). It does take time though to learn what you like, but for me has been an invaluable way to discover new music.  

Hopefully there is an update soon.