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June 17, 2021
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Try our remote control and let us know how it works!

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  • June 17, 2021
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Try our remote control and let us know how it works!

You've asked for this feature and since then, the wait has been a long journey. Our community pet peeve for a while, starts to get shape in our platform… :iphone:

Welcome to our remote control feature! :boom:

It's a great privilege for me to announce our initial test launch, for iOS users who are on the beta version of the app :minidisc:

You can now use your iPhone (or iPad) to control our desktop app, the Deezer web app, another iPhone or iPad.

 

How to access the remote control feature? :telephone_receiver:

You'll need to have the beta version of the Deezer app on iOS: 

  • Open app > Settings > Deezer Labs
  • Activate Remote Control 
  • Choose your track and click on the “Audio output” icon 
  • Select the device you want to control

 

 

127 replies

Guitar Hero
August 3, 2021

 

@Harmonie our devs have seen your comments and wanted me to let you know that, despite not having a date yet, they're working on bringing this feature to Android as soon as possible (development work is being carried out as we speak).

Thanks for letting me know. I appreciate it, and I hope that the Android and Windows versions will be polished alot more. iOS and what not had enough attention and development from Deezer. It's time to fully put your passion into the Android and Windows versions 👍🏻

Let’s not forget Linux users please :pray:

Ultimate Superstar
August 3, 2021

Once web player will improve, the pc app will improve too.

iPhone I have no clue. Never tried it. Too expensive phones. I hope Deezer will improve  web app.

Rudi said that their aim is to focus on that too, to many annoyances as bugs.

Roadie
August 5, 2021

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Roadie
August 5, 2021

thank you paper io 2

Guitar Hero
August 11, 2021

Cannot get this to work at all, iphone cant see my mac or iPad at all 

Roadie
August 12, 2021

ok I have been testing this for a bit, can get this to work on chrome on my pc, the issues that I have found is it gives the “why has the music stopped?” box when I connect it, and the time scrubber (I think that what that’s called) is not synced so the one on the pc is not moving but the one on the phone is working just fine, then we have that my phone cant connect to the pc app at all, and when I connect the phone to deezer through chrome it restarts the song instead of playing where I left off.

 

hope that helped and you can get the issues fixed.

Guitar Hero
August 14, 2021

Some feedback to your iOS testflight app:

I already got 2 or 3 updates. But the release notes for these updates are always very vague: “Bugfixes and various improvements”
As a beta tester, I would like to know what really changed and can be tested (again). Currently it is a little frustrating to test something after an update, while not knowing if you even changed something in this part of the app.
If you would add more information to your release notes, I would be able give more valuable feedback.
“Feature X doesn’t work for me” after each release will probably not help you if you didn’t change something there.
 

Guitar Hero
August 15, 2021
Roadie
August 16, 2021

So excited for the Android release or beta

Roadie
August 17, 2021

I very excited about this feature event it still has very limited functionality yet. But anyway here is my small feedback. I’ve activated it on 3 devices - iPhone 6 plus, iPhone 11, Mac Desktop app.

Looks like any iPhone → Desktop control work mostly well but any iPhone → iPhone connection very unstable (tested on 2 and 5 ghz wi-fi networks). I’m constantly getting apps crashes and ‘remote disconnecting’ messages so as result in most cases I can start playback remotely but later I unable control it at all because:
-  I may not able to reconnect at all
- if I able to reconnect anyway playback may be restarted (to start from beginning of the song or to unknow state)
- if remote disconnected at moment then I tried to start playback I will get pop message on remote device about that Deezer account can be used only on single device (and you have to go to remote device to close it) (even without remote it’s should be possible to use at 2 streams simultaneously, - because you may wish to listen music in background in your room and try search/explore tracks on another device with headphones)