Dezeer Free Ending

I got same email today. I am from Lithuania (EU country). We have Spotify here for a long time so this is not the case. No more free Deezer I guess. Any official news about this?

Been checking online but nothing official so far

its a shame.

this app gave me podcasts, playlists and shazam - all in one.

guess i’m going back to my legacy apps.

It’s a shame, really shame!!! My brother got this email yesterday. We are from Athens, Greece. I already have a premium account (since 29/09/2021) and he was ready to go to premium too. But after this racial discrimination from Deezer side, he will go for an other app, like Spotify or something. And I think I’ll follow him.

Shame on you Deezer!!!

And please, change your email message to the real one: We don’t appreciate that you're part of the Deezer Free listening community and we just want your money. Deezer Free will no longer be available in your country as of 19/4/2022.

I'm trying to understand their logic behind this move as well. They may want more paying customers however there user base is already so small vs Spotify, 16 mil vs 400 mil.

They have been going about this all wrong, I think they will lose more customers after this.

It's a shame as the service is very much comparable to Spotify, however they have done very bad with marketing and adding new users over the years. 

I had always stuck to Deezer as they were available way before Spotify. 

https://www.reddit.com/r/deezer/comments/tol3pg/deezer_free_is_ending_egypt/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

Found this thread on Reddit

They want to copy Apple Music I guess 😜

This whole thing is scummy as hell. Free users have often been building up a music collection over years, so simply porting over to another streaming service is not that straightforward. Deezer knows this, and hopes free users will simply roll over and pay to keep their collection. As much as it will suck to lose all my playlists, I honestly think it’s worth the trouble out of principle. I don’t like shady business practices and I don’t appreciate being extorted. I’ll be setting up my Spotify account today.

The irony is I was very likely going to upgrade to Premium later this year (to get rid of the annoying ads), was just waiting to have some breathing room in my budget. I guess I’ll give my money to Spotify instead.

Update to the comment above: It’s done, it was way easier than I thought and I already have Spotify running all my playlists. For those who don’t know, there are services like https://www.tunemymusic.com/ which let you transfer your library from one music streaming service to another. It’s not perfect (free version only lets you transfer 500 tracks at a time, so some manual editing is required for playlists larger than that), but I got most of my Deezer library into Spotify in a little over one hour. Will be porting over the rest in the next few days. Deezer can say goodbye to whatever ad revenue they were getting from me.

I’m totally confused. So now deezer isn’t scummy as hell for knowing that “Free users have often been building up a music collection over years, so simply porting over to another streaming service is not that straightforward”?

anyway, congrats on getting over to Spotify Free! they will be happy to be getting your ad revenue!

Cheers!