Windows/Mac Desktop App Widget

Hey @AgroPuppy! 

It should be still present, do you maybe have an M1? 

Hey @Yula 

If that’s still available that’s awesome. No I do not, I’m sorry I made it sound like I had a Mac, I did, but recently moved over to windows and that was a feature I loved about the desktop app.

If you press H for Help or ? either in the Windows desktop app or web player, keyboard shortcuts for some essential navigation commands appear at the bottom. Maybe you mean those?
 

To hide them just press H or ? again, Esc will not work.

Hey @AgroPuppy, definetly still available on Windows! 

You just need to allow the widget from the settings of your pc. 

Hey @Yula, where are those setttings?

I was looking for this too, because I like to know what’s playing, but the full app is way too busy and distracting for me, with all its suggestions and so on.

On the Mac, there doesn’t seem to be a widget currently, but a different option for a minimalist interface is to go to Settings > Control Center and set the “Now Playing” module to show (always, or when active).

Then, you get a little “Play”-type button in the menu bar, and when you click on it, a tiny pop-up appears with the name of the current song and artist, and pause / back / forward buttons.

Of course you also have the media keys on Macs and most PCs that let you pause and switch tracks without leaving the keyboard, and maybe the controls on your earphones… but none of those show the current track.

Is there a widget for windows or a way to add controls to the windows taskbar? This is managed well by other music apps and would be great if this could be managed by deezer

If you make a right-click on the Deezer icon in the Windows systray, you can start the playback with your spacebar, skip forward with the Shift key + right arrow and skip back with Shift key + left arrow. At least that is what this German screenshot states. Just tested it with the desktop app, and it works if the app is in the foreground, not when it plays in the background.

You can also hover the Deezer icon on the left side of the Windows taskbar, then a small menu preview of the desktop app will pop up with the skip and start buttons. Making a screenshot for this does not work with the Windows Snipping tool, sorry.

@bluezzbastardzz unfortunately this is a very inelegant way to achieve this. I was thinking something more like the following type of images:

Or even something like this: