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One Hit Wonder
January 7, 2019
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Deezer playlists with Amazon Alexa

  • January 7, 2019
  • 132 replies
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Hi,

Is it now possible to listen to our playlist with Alexa ?
Best answer by Rudi
Hi,

Is it now possible to listen to our playlist with Alexa ?


Hi there Nicomel,

At the moment we're unable to play user-created playlists with Alexa. But this has already been passed to our developers and it's a problem which will get an update soon 😉

132 replies

Rudi
Ultimate Superstar
Ultimate Superstar
March 10, 2021

Sorry you feel that way @Larsen Locke 

But we're developing a new skill, from scratch. Once I've got more updates, I'll be sharing them with the community.

Take good care!

Soloist
Guitar Hero
Guitar Hero
March 11, 2021

Sincerely hope you can make it within the next three months. It’s gonna be a decisive factor for me to decide whether to stay after my trial period.

So far I’m very happy with everthing, but this is quite a big flaw and if not solved would make it useless to be a premium subscriber, at least for me.

Rudi
Ultimate Superstar
Ultimate Superstar
March 13, 2021

Hey @Soloist 

Totally get you, I've got an Echo at home as well.

I'm positive about the 3 months you've given Deezer, so I'll keep you posted!

March 24, 2021

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. 


That’s not ideal, but one thing that could be done is to connect the iPhone to echo dot by using Bluetooth, so you could use the Deezer app in iPhone in order to play your own playlists. That works for me until the Alexa skill can’t do that by it self.

Soloist
Guitar Hero
Guitar Hero
March 24, 2021


That’s not ideal, but one thing that could be done is to connect the iPhone to echo dot by using Bluetooth, so you could use the Deezer app in iPhone in order to play your own playlists. That works for me until the Alexa skill can’t do that by it self.

Yeah, thought about that, but that has two major drawbacks which make it a no go for me:

  • must keep the phone always in range
  • can’t play music on multiple devices using a group
Rudi
Ultimate Superstar
Ultimate Superstar
March 25, 2021

You're right @Soloist it's just a workaround for the time being. But we're working on a new skill for Alexa, so hang in there a bit longer and your experience with Deezer will improve a lot! :relaxed:

One Hit Wonder
April 13, 2021

Can you update Deezer so that it will link with Alexa so I can play my playlists & music of my choice
It will only play one flow playlist
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amazon.dee.app

& Can you add Deezer to the firmware of kitsound KS one speaker so I can play directly with the kitsound app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wifiaudio.Kitsound
https://kitsound.co.uk/category/speakers/bluetooth_speakers#

 

You've got to keep up with connectivity otherwise we will switch you streaming services that do connect

 

Rudi
Ultimate Superstar
Ultimate Superstar
April 14, 2021

Yes, that’s the priority for this year @Percussionman, along with reliability.

About Alexa, we’re working on a new skill for it, just stay tuned. For Kitsound, have a look around the community to see if there’s an existing topic about it so that you can contribute with your feedback (perhaps a vote if the topic is in the feature requests section).

Thank you for your support!

Rising Star
April 20, 2021


That’s not ideal, but one thing that could be done is to connect the iPhone to echo dot by using Bluetooth, so you could use the Deezer app in iPhone in order to play your own playlists. That works for me until the Alexa skill can’t do that by it self.

Yeah, thought about that, but that has two major drawbacks which make it a no go for me:

  • must keep the phone always in range
  • can’t play music on multiple devices using a group

Another drawback for me is that sometimes MyFlow picks a really great song, and I want to ask “What song is this?”  Unfortunately just being connected through bluetooth means Alexa knows nothing about what is actually playing, so it has no answer.

Hopefully this comes soon!

Guitar Hero
May 17, 2021

I have just started the 3 x month trial of Deezer and discover that I cannot play my Playlists via Alexa.  

Reading this thread, I see that this has been ongoing for over 2 x years! So it appears that this won’t happen anytime soon.  I won’t be extending my use of Deezer once the trial period is complete.