Mix your friend's music with yours on Shaker

I love this new feature ! 

From my Deezer account, I send an Shaker invitation to a friend. They recieve the email. As expected. But when click on it it never gives them a screen to create a Shaker account. I see two memebers in my Group presumably me and my friend. But, I don’t see their Spotify music. 

My friend was never given a chance to create a shaker account. 

How do I fix that?

Is there any way to play the playlist through other platforms like Spotify? I went through the effort of getting a mix with my friends who use Deezer, but they've only been able to find a way to play single songs in Spotify which unfortunately really kills the purpose of Shaker for us.

That's exactly the thing I ran into. Shaker could be a whole lot better if you could import the mix and playlist in your Spotify or whatever account. Adding a link to TuneMyMusic would do the trick.

Hi @Daniëlle Kriekaard @HansHa, thanks for your message.

Happy to hear that you join with our Deezer user the Shaker Feature.

To be able to get the full experience of this feature user from other stream app/platform need to download the Deezer application.

It is important to emphasise that it is not necessary to subscribe to any Deezer plan to enjoy all features that Shaker offers.

I hope everyone kip enjoying the Shaker feature with your friends

Hi @Leonida.deezer

Thanks,

But this is not the answer I was hoping for. I can understand that Deezer wants to attract more users. But in this way you might as well start a collaborative playlist. 
The streaming world needs a more cross platform solution IMHO.
 

So far I understand that shaker is not really available on desktop (at least in web) and users from different services cannot create a playlist on their own platform. This is frankly underwhelming and shortsighted from the product perspective.

For Deezer to attract new users from larger platforms it needs to make it comfortable for users to stay here. Switching streaming platforms is hard because you lose connection with your friends and family. People would feel much more confident in switching if they had a feature that would allow them to collaborate with their circle on other platforms. Implementing collaborative auto-playlists or something like cross-platform share links would eliminate the feeling of separation when switching streaming services. Right now as a Deezer user I feel like “that guy” with whom nobody shares music because everyone is on Spotify and lost a neat collab playlist with my girlfriend who also still uses Spotify. This feature does literally nothing to solve it.

Instead we get a half-baked MVP solution which works for some cases but mostly is useless. Unfortunately it feels like the majority of Deezer features are made like that.

I am thinking of switching back to Spotify already, looking at the latest feature developments it seems that Deezer has no good solutions for retaining the userbase and opted for fast development of basic functionality instead of polishing the existing stuff. Like constantly using a potentially neat service in perpetual beta state all while having no connection with the users of mainstream services.

Hello @PotatoOverlord thank you for sharing your vision about Shaker. I have just shared it with our team responsible for this project.

There is still space to improve this tool and some changes will occur during the next quarters.

Looking forward to see what is coming. 

Is there a maximum limit for tracks that you can add to a playlist? Someone on the Deezer subreddit reports they can only add up to 70 tracks:

Shaker with friends limits : deezer (reddit.com)

I di not find anything about a limit in the support article.