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Keith Hynes

Gapless playback between tracksLive

@Rudi  THANK YOU! This has been a long time coming and is very much appreciated.  I just upgraded to the FLAC service to take advantage of this feature.   I look forward to seeing it roll out across other platforms. :)

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RavenOvNadir
Tiny Dancer
1 month ago
Rudi
Alien SuperStar
RudiThe Godfather

Your tracks, without gaps!News

We've worked and worked hard to finally deliver to you a standard you deserve: Gapless playback.      THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

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bluezzbastardzz
Deezer Legend
5 months ago
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Keith Hynes

Gapless playback between tracksLive

Can we start a GoFundMe.com fundraiser to pay Deezer to develop this? I would gladly send 500EUR to Deezer to prioritize work on this. The alternative is to replace $15,000 EUR of B&O audio gear I use for multiroom streaming in my house, and switch to Spotify. I was literally researching alternative audio systems today because of this very problem.

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RavenOvNadir
Tiny Dancer
1 month ago
KingPrince
KingPrince

Dark/Night ModeLive

[quote=Rudi]... I guess everyone here agrees we can change this idea to IMPLEMENTED! :grinning::grin::champagne: ...this idea was conceived thanks to all of you community members. The votes, the demand, all of it made it happen.[/quote] Oh Thank God! Deezer finally listened to customers. Amazing!! How many prayers do I need to say to get gapless playback? Deezer is still unusable for 90% of classical music as well as many of the greatest rock albums (starting with Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon") and many other continuous recordings. Knowing that Deezer developers are finally listening to the community I will be on my knees every day praying for gapless playback.

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bluezzbastardzz
Deezer Legend
3 months ago
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Keith Hynes

Gapless playback between tracksLive

[quote=Rudi]You're right, [user=143079]dorcus_maximus[/user], you mentioned Mac, not iOS. Well, back to the drawing board then! :sweat_smile: thank you for the feedback. We're having discussions with our product team so that they can give a clear answer on hot topics like this one. So please bear with us a bit longer and we'll be able to give more info.[/quote] [user=111813]Rudi[/user] When should we expect to hear back from you about what the product team has to say?

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RavenOvNadir
Tiny Dancer
1 month ago
K
Keith Hynes

Gapless playback between tracksLive

[quote=Jakisa]Just so let you know that I left Deezer for Spotify, two years ago, because of this. That was the sole reason.[/quote] I prefer Deezer over Spotify, but I have mostly stuck around because my B&O stereo equipment also prefers Deezer. But this has been ignored long enough that I'm considering selling all my equipment and replacing it with something that allows me to listen to ALL my music. It is simply mind-blowing that this wasn't resolved 5 years ago.

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RavenOvNadir
Tiny Dancer
1 month ago
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Keith Hynes

Gapless playback between tracksLive

[quote=Rudi]... I'll look into the gapless discussion with our product team and I'll let you know if there are any updates.[/quote] [user=111813]Rudi[/user] , What's the word? More importantly, can you explain *why* we don't have Gapless, so at least we can understand what we're waiting for? Is it a music rights licensing issue? Is it a lack of skilled programmers to make this a priority? Is it that executives think not enough people care about Gapless to spend the money on development? Thanks in advance for any transparency you can bring! -Alex

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RavenOvNadir
Tiny Dancer
1 month ago
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Keith Hynes

Gapless playback between tracksLive

It appears that Deezer is trying to hide this issue. The top of the pages says this issue has 214 votes, but when I sort the "Got an Idea?" forum by Most Votes this issue doesn't appear: the list skips from "Hifi Family Plan" at 258 votes to "remote control music on another device" at 198 votes. [user=195]Anja[/user] Can you tell us why this issue doesn't appear in the list of highest voted issues?

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RavenOvNadir
Tiny Dancer
1 month ago
K
Keith Hynes

Gapless playback between tracksLive

Deezer has a serious problem at the moment with their lack of gapless playback. Many albums from classical to jazz to rock have albums intended to be listened to as a continuous whole, with no gaps between the tracks. Nobody would watch Netflix if there was a 1/2 second pause every 3-5 minutes, which is video equivlent of Deezer's current situation. I recently realized a stop-gap solution which would be trivial for Deezer to implement. For albums that are intended to play as a continuous stream, Deezer should offer a "single-track" version that has the entire album recorded as a single track. This shouldn't cost Deezer anything to implement, as they already play licensing for the albums. And it would encourage ongoing subscriptions for those of us who like to hear feature-length albums without interruption. To be honest, if my audio gear maker (B&O) didn't favor Deezer, I would have abandoned them long ago over this one issue. If Deezer doesn't fix this problem I'll be forced to

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RavenOvNadir
Tiny Dancer
1 month ago
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Keith Hynes

Gapless playback between tracksLive

How is gapless not an option? It should be the standard! Can you imagine if we had little gaps inserted throughout movies on Netflix? Nobody would subscribe!!

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RavenOvNadir
Tiny Dancer
1 month ago
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Keith Hynes

Gapless playback between tracksLive

[quote=MusicIsLife1122] Deezer not going to implement it soon (Someone from customer support told me) , but they do have Crossfade option so while a song fade out the next one will start . [/quote] Well this is a good way for Deezer to lose me and many other customers to Spotify. I will not pay for a subscription to a music service which inserts gaps in the middle of my music, interrupting the song. I can't imagine why Deezer thinks this is at all acceptable. There is a LOT of music which plays continuously from one "track" to the next. Gapless playback should be almost trivial to implement, I really don't understand why this is a problem for Deezer. If this can't be implemented by a single software developer in under a month, they need to fire and replace their entire development staff.

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RavenOvNadir
Tiny Dancer
1 month ago
K
Keith Hynes

Gapless playback between tracksLive

Anja, Lack of "gapless" playback should be high priority for Deezer. I honestly have trouble understanding why it hasn't been in place for a long time. It should honestly be trivial to implement. As others have mentioned, there are many albums where tracks are connected without silence. Pink Floyd's [i]Dark Side of the Moon[/i] is a great example, and I respectfully request that you to listen to just 5 minutes of this album. You will hear a break in the music twice in 5 minutes, as if someone paused the album momentarily. I think if you hear the problem, you will understand our concern. (This is not exactly an obscure album: it spent [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_200#Most_weeks_on_the_chart]15 YEARS on the Billboard Top-200 album sales [/url]list!) There are many other albums with this same effect, both rock and classical. Listening with gaps or even crossfades absolutely ruins the flow of the album. Please help us get this fixed! Thank you, -Ale

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RavenOvNadir
Tiny Dancer
1 month ago
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