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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

BigFKahuna
Hitmaker
Hitmaker
November 14, 2021

After having a very informative discussion with the folks at Deezer my iPhone to iPhone connection issue seems to have been explained. I have three iPhones, each newer model loaded up from the iCloud back up of the previous model. Thus the Deezer remote feels my iPhones are all identical, thus does not recognize a different device (if I explained that correctly!). For now, I loaded the Deezer app to my wife’s old iPhone and the remote control function works like a charm...as long as I am on the WiFi network I can be anywhere in the house and control my music….works like a charm!

BigFKahuna
Guitar Hero
November 18, 2021

Will this work to control Samsung Smart TVs?

Guitar Hero
November 18, 2021

This is great news and i can't wait to get it for Android. Logically the next step would be to get devices that can be remote controlled such as Teufel Raumfeld, the blue sound products, Sonos, old Squeezeboxes to just name a few.

Could you guys at Deezer please provide details about for which devices we can expect this functionality?

Are you planning to produce any hardware sound adapter by yourself?

Will you support other special streaming adapter producers such as Hama equipping their products with your player software?

Excited greetings

One Hit Wonder
November 21, 2021

I would love to see this feature come to Android and streaming products like Bluesound!

Roadie
December 2, 2021

A remote for my desktop ??? - i don’t get it...better make your app cast to hardware devices instead...

Roadie
December 4, 2021

Impatient to test this on Android.

December 31, 2021

I switched to Android. Does that option already exist?

Roadie
January 2, 2022

Will we see a android version with remote control feature in the year 2022? :thinking:

January 7, 2022

Is it possible to get an update on the possibility of controlling Deezer for Android

BigFKahuna
Hitmaker
Hitmaker
January 10, 2022

After a month of attempting to use the remote control function of the Deezer app (in my case one iPhone to another iPhone) I became frustrated with the functionality of the feature. All would go well for a period of time with control of another iPhone remotely, usually until I would use the “controller” iPhone for another function, such as check an email or use another app while still wanting to continue using the Deezer app. The connection would be lost and sometimes take a frustratingly long time to re-establish, with multiple attempts to reconnect after exiting and opening again the Deezer app on one or both phones. In my case the problem was solved with the purchase of a Bluesound Node. The Bluesound app loaded with Deezer works well (except for what appears to be a 2000 song limit in playlists, rather than the 10,000 on my iPhone), and to control the Node from my Deezer iPhone app via Airplay thus far seems very stable and reliable. I assume that this gives my at least CD quality to my system. 

BigFKahuna