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Replies posted by Viewtiful Bob

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Deezer Family and HiFi subscriptionLive

We're a small team, @Viewtiful Bob, you're rooting and I'm working for the underdog  Thanks for understanding and obviously for your genuine feedback, hope this comes soon! Thanks @Rudi . You know it’s only because I’m a huge advocate & fanboy of Deezer. It’s by a country mile the best streaming service, especially for music discovery & day-to-day recommendations. It’s the only service (and I’ve tried them all extensively)  that acknowledges there are people out there with music tastes that go beyond one genre, or that I might wake up with no idea what ‘mood’ I’m in. Flow is the best in the business for this (not that it’s perfect, especially with its bizarre 2000 song limit - I filled that in a few months). I personally love Rachmaninov following Rage Against The Machine, or The Corrs with Cannibal Corpse. 😊 Hi-Fi is the icing on the cake. Hi-Fi Family would be the hand-placed cherry. Every time someone tells me they subscribe to Spotify, I say “Seriously, you have to give D

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It's very complex to negotiate music rights with the different labels for different models of subscription, Rob @Viewtiful Bob (for example) But this is something we're interested in so all I can ask is for you to subscribe to the topic for future updates on this. Work is being done  Thanks for the feedback too @NXT_tank  Okay, well I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt as I can’t claim to know anything on the subject. But I still don’t understand how Deezer got left behind as the only one of the big four ‘lossless’ services without a Family Hi-Fi plan.  All would be forgiven if you work out a way to mix Hi-Fi & Premium plans, though. 😊 Rob 

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We certainly want your whole family to join in @W.Z.  Please have a look above and don't forget to vote! Thank you for your feedback and support  Hi @Rudi By my reckoning Deezer are literally the only service not to offer this combination. Seriously, what is taking so long? As soon as it’s available I’ll be back.Amazon, Qobuz and Tidal all have Family plans for both ‘Premium’ and lossless tiers. I get it has to be implemented to the apps & subscription platforms, but I implore you to suggest one single justifiable reason for this being more complex than it seems. Please. It just makes no sense whatsoever. 😟Rob

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Our content and offer is very different from other platforms @walker  At the moment we're considering some interesting options but there's more work to be done before we can give you more details  Hi @Rudi I’ve just signed up for Deezer Hi-Fi now we’ve established that it does in fact work via Airplay (up to CD quality). I am struggling to use it as if my wife or daughter decides to use it, of course one of us is booted off. I don’t want to opt for Family and have the lower music quality as most of the time only one is in use. I don’t really see that your ‘content and offer is [that] different from other platforms’ - people have been requesting this for years, and it’s just a fundamental pricing plan. Personally I think Hi-Fi should just be the standard now, but that’s another story. No disrespect, but PLEASE can we just get on with it already? The devs have had quite long enough, and the demand is clearly there! :) What would be even better would be something like Spotify’s couple pl

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deezer hifi and airplay?

Hey @KP50 @Viewtiful Bob  Our devs came back to us with more info on this: It is true that HiFi users can stream their songs in FLAC format to an AirPlay speaker without loss of quality. iOS converts the decoded audio data to ALAC, which is the Apple equivalent of FLAC and is a lossless compression format. About AirPlay 2, it consists mostly of 2 improvements compared to AirPlay: multiroom audio, which allows playing synchronously the same song on multiple speakers, it is supported by Deezer app fast streaming, which increases playback control reactivity and reduces the chance to face audio drops, this feature is not currently implemented in Deezer app AirPlay 2 does not improve audio quality, the original version of AirPlay already offers CD-quality audio (16 bit 44.1/48 kHz). In sum, you're right and the information previously provided wasn't correct. Once we have more concrete details, I'll be sharing them here in the community  Hi @Rudi Thats great news, thank you for looking int

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deezer hifi and airplay?

@Rudi Can we have a response & update on this, please? I’d really appreciate an explanation as to why you believe Deezer Hi-Fi couldn’t work over AirPlay while Tidal, Amazon HD & Qobuz all categorically state that 16 bit CD quality FLAC music up to 48khz (note not 24 bit ‘Hi Res’ material, though I think that’s pretty niche) will. Note also this has nothing to do with AirPlay 2. All four (I believe) use FLAC, all four are third parties to Apple, AirPlay converts to ALAC internally…. please can you explain Deezer’s stance? Or does this only apply to 24 bit / 360 Reality Audio? If you can confirm this, get it sorted if it is true & I think you’d get a much bigger take up. I’d certainly be first in line (apart from the fact that I can’t subscribe to it as a BMW Online Entertainment subscriber - another ludicrous restriction)!   Thank you, Rob

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deezer hifi and airplay?

Hi there @marilyne DELL'amico  Not at the moment. Not even AirPlay 2 enables streaming FLAC for a third Music provider like us. You can cast to other devices via Chromecast, for example (and we're preparing a new integration). For example, FLAC on the new Homepod is only available with Airplay 2 for Apple Music. Thank you for your support and understanding  Hi @Rudi  Please can you substantiate this claim, as it quite patently can’t be true if Tidal & Amazon HD work at CD resolution via AirPlay (which they both categorically claim they do). Airplay automatically converts to ALAC from FLAC, so I don’t understand why Deezer can’t do this when other third party providers can. As Apple don’t supply a Hi-fi tier subscription to Apple Music, it also doesn’t make sense why they would restrict this.    Thank you.    Rob  

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Obviously Deezer is not listening to its customers. We have been asking for a hifi family plan for years and they refuse to do it. It’s not that difficult for them to add it. They just do not want to for some reason. As soon as Tidal or another company gets it I will be dumping Deezer. In fairness, none of the suppliers do. Tidal offer one, with five profiles, but it’s £30. I don’t think you can have multiple profiles on Amazon HD either.    Perhaps an alternative would be for Deezer to consider, at a time when differentiating yourself & being competitive in a very crowded market is difficult, the ability to tailor your subscription exactly how you want it, rather than just set packages. Who, for example, is ever going to need six profiles? Most would be happy with two, maybe three, four tops (in a family situation anyway - most multi-profile accounts will just be used to share it among friends). You could even offer one hi-fi profile, one standard profile, etc.  All the services

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Thanks for coming back @marilyne DELL'amico. All I can say, to be certain, is that Airplay won't stream in FLAC from a Deezer account, yet.   Rudi, I’ve been reading a lot about this recently, and can’t understand it. Are you saying that a) Tidal & Amazon HD (as fellow third parties) won’t stream in CD quality over AirPlay? and b) Deezer Hi-Fi will only work with native apps like MusicCast or HEOS? My understanding was that Airplay converts to ALAC from FLAC, but that was still a lossless conversion. Tidal & Amazon say their services work in lossless via AirPlay. Is Deezer different to this? Have you not developed the FLAC to ALAC conversion, is that it? Airplay is by far the main way I listen to music at home, and Tidal appears to have no problem with it. I’ve not tried Amazon yet, but their website clearly states that HD will work over AirPlay. Also, I’ve questioned this in other threads I know, but it’s just bizarre that you can’t have more than one profile with Hi-Fi (jus

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Yes, this inability to mix Family & Hi-Fi baffles me all these years on. Also the fact that as a Premium subscriber through BMW Online Entertainment, I cant even upgrade to a single profile Hi-Fi plan! Deezer is my favourite service (and I’ve tried pretty much all of them), but the plans are really very restrictive.   Even one extra profile would be enough (who the heck needs or uses six apart from people that share subscriptions with their friends?), and it would be fine, even, if the secondary profile wasn’t Hi-Fi or something.  Rob    

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Flow should not recommend songs which are not based on my FavouritesReplied by Deezer

No way! Flow is THE reason to subscribe to Deezer over any other service. What I hate about other services’ ‘discovery’ channels is precisely that: that we only like one type of music & know what type of music we want to hear today. I love Flow’s ability to just play music of any kind, without me restricting it. I love going from The Corrs to Rachmaninov to Tool to James Morrison in one playlist, and for me it gets the mix between randomness, educated suggestions & my favourites right more of the time than any other music service. If they did anything other than refine how Flow is today, I’d have no reason to prefer Deezer over any other. They already do the ‘Inspired By’ so you can limit it if you want (which my wife does as she does listen to a much smaller variety than I do). 

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