Say Goodbye to Deezer Connect 👋

To be fair, Deezer connect barely worked and when it did, it wasn’t a good experience. Was hoping the feature would be worked on so it improved but I guess the priorities have shifted into ruining the general user interface. 

I Never Can Say Goodbye 😪

The story of a failure. It never worked as intended. I truly hope for Deezer that Spotify HIFI doesn’t come out. It will be painful to watch if it does.

i cross post it here too i ncase my simple reply on my own posty is not seen. 
Deezer connect design flaw | Deezer Community, bringing music lovers together

Really ?   I just made the step to go from spotify to deezer and one of the things that where important was to be able to eazy play music on other media then my phone or windows pc  (like my denon avr or raspberry based music player moode)

With deezer connect that was possible withouth loosing a lot of functionality like for example the implementation in heos (denon) where is is difficult to change your flow preference and even more difficult to mark songs from flow as dont run this artist anymore or song.

Now you take functionality away that was not perfect but at least it was there? 

Is this the startup to going further and further bacj in functionality ?  like is the heos rfucntioanlity going away also ?   Its a way to drive me back to spotify fast or look for other options to get better quality mucic like flac from oter providers.

I’m the developer of pleezer an open-source Deezer Connect client downloaded over 10,000 times in the last six months.

While the playback functionality in the official Deezer apps has indeed degraded, the remote control functionality — directing playback to external clients like pleezer — has remained rock-solid.

That’s why I urge you not to shut down the Connect backend completely.

There’s a simple middle-ground solution:

Let the Deezer apps continue acting as controllers, while no longer advertising them as playback targets. This avoids user confusion while preserving valuable third-party integrations — with minimal maintenance overhead.

There are several top-voted ideas in the community forum asking for things pleezer already enables:

• Exclusive USB DAC support

• Linux-native playback

• Streamer integration (e.g., moOde, Volumio)

• Gapless playback

Please consider keeping this backend alive for the many of us who rely on Deezer outside the boundaries of the official apps.

It was the development of pleezer which induced me to subscribe to Deezer (for my reasons, see the bullet points in roderickvd’s post, above) and without the continued functionality of pleezer I will have no reason to continue my Deezer subscription.

 I, for one, will not ever be installing any app named pleezer on my phone.

LOL, you made my day ​@GropplerZorn  :)

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