Say Goodbye to Deezer Connect 👋

pleezer is the reason why i (paid) subscribed to deezer, if i cannot use it anymore, i will quit my subscription

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

 

Good job it isn’t an app for your phone then isn’t it?

I consider this an unfortunate decision because a feature of the same scale must be introduced before removing one of the main features.

Shame it didn’t have the same features as Spotify/Tidal Connect - I imagine a lot of users were confused because of that.

Hello from a former deezer user who was really considering restarting the subscription because of pleezer.

It would be a shame if such a nice implementation would stop working. I mainly use single board computers with Moode or similar solutions as my audio streamers. The fact that a streaming service can work on such devices is crucial for my choices.

Thank you for your attention.

I too am a recent Deezer user (after ending my Spotify subscription). Without the functionality offered by pleezer, I would not have made the switch to Deezer. And if this functionality does not return (as per roderickvd’s suggestion above), I will be forced to end my Deezer subscription and go back to Spotify.

Please reconsider your decision!

Like others I read above, I am a Deezer user who mainly uses the "Deezer connect" function via "Pleezer". The discontinuation of this function will certainly be a reason to cancel my subscription and move on to something else, in addition to the sudden decision to discontinue this function is bad behavior on your part. It was necessary to warn in due time. I am very disappointed. I would like to add that in these two days I contacted support to ask why "deezer connect" no longer appeared in the Android app and no one told me anything about this, proving that there is no communication.

I am with Roderick here. I am using Kodi on a Raspberry Pi as my main media player in the living room and pleezer in connection with Deezer Connect has been an absolute pleasure to work with outside of Kodi.

Please keep the ability of the Deezer app to act as a controller for full clients, so that people who don’t rely on chromecast or Apple TV for their media consumption are able to access their Deezer account with those devices.

For me this absolutely limits the usefulness of Deezer as a Service. And in contrast to your promise from your post “But don't worry, there are still other ways to listen to Deezer across all of your devices.” this actually takes away a device from me on which I could listen to Deezer until two days ago. No official Linux client, no official Kodi Plugin.

That does not feel like you want to provide the best possible experience to this user, but pleezer made it happen with being able to play Deezer content on my setup.
 

There are reasons I chose Deezer over other players in the field (european company, ACPS, no Josh Rogan, Flow is pretty good at finding new relevant music), and yes, Deezer connect wasn’t one of the reasons. But after using it for a while, it really is a major pain in the ass to see it go away.

Oh, and please: Could you announce things *BEFORE* they happen and not after the fact?

Last: Thank you ​@roderickvd for the really awesome work on pleezer. It was great while it lasted.

Ralph

Very upset by this decision! I hope you change your mind about this, I’m definitely ending my subscription without this feature.

I've been on a Deezer trial and this is a factor in my decision to use another service. There are a couple that have recently added "connect" functionality themselves