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Rising Star
January 2, 2021

When will Deezer add ASIO or WASAPI so we can have bitperfect like Tidal?

  • January 2, 2021
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When will Deezer add ASIO or WASAPI so we can have bitperfect like Tidal?

 

I’m paying for the hifi tier but the Windows desktop app does not have bitperfect. What’s hifi if the windows audio stack is involved?

    14 replies

    Guitar Hero
    January 6, 2023

    Deezer is lame. It's certainly valid to me to question if we're actually getting hifi quality if there's no way of independently verifying it. My external dac when using the deezer windows app says it's coming in at 24 bit 48k which it obviously isn't, and tidal windows app via wasapi exclusive mode says it's 16 bit 44k for the same content and it clearly sounds better

    Rising Star
    February 19, 2023

    I will be adding that I will also cancel Deezer and go Qobuz due to the lack of exclusive mode to get bit perfect. No point to go uncompressed only to half-@ss it with windows mixer resampling the audio. 

    Seriously Deezer, you have to think about your audience. If you cant offer hi-fi properly, then you’re not much better than spotify which has way more songs and a better UI anyway. If you do want to keep supposed hi-fi customers, then you’d need to offer some bitperfect player. Amazon has it, Tidal has it, Qobuz has it.  You’re the only one that doesnt have it. 

    Roadie
    August 13, 2023

    Man, tough crowd! I'm new to Deezer. I've tried all streamers, starting 20 plus years ago with Rhapsody. I spent 5 years with Tidal (pre MQA mostly) thankfully MQA went belly up, this was NOT lossless. I spent i think 2 years with Qobuz, which is amazing. Still with my LG v60 I'm not getting bit perfect with Qobuz unless I use UAPP. Which is only 8 bucks and well worth it. I consider myself an audiophile, and can take apart musical things even with my Marshall driven tinnitus with ease. 

    Tidal was great until they polluted their library with MQA and are now stuck with the artifacts of MQA even on hifi  so they are out of the hi res end until they fix what they messed up 

    Qobuz is absolutely amazing even paired with my quad dac and UAPP. Q with out UAPP is still great, but android is limited, and a quick AB you will pick this up. 

    Now for Deezer. Regardless of specs, wet dreams, and everything else of everything to  do with hype and

    Pee nus envy, while music takes a back seat. I STILL go by my tinnitus ears and Deezer (mobile app) has a supreme rich deep organic sound that is so impressive. I split Qobuz only because there were too many bugs with downloads and using the Q player especially. I'll be back tho as. Q is a gem. The hiRes sound is the bomb. No hype

    I've read so many posts here, and I cringed when I read "but Amazon does this why doesn't Deezer" First, Amazon does something. They have an excellent library, but AMAZON SOUND US HORRENDOUS! That's in their HiRes area too. Listen to it. It's scratchy , it's halrsh, and only a tad better than Tidals MQA. Not much, as MQA with the proper equipment is very harsh also. 

    Deezers sound is so much better than Tidal and Amazon, flac vs HiRes to boot. Test it yourselves. Deezers Flac might be as great as Qobuz Flac although I didn't AB the 2 yet.  I'm Soo impressed with Deezers music discovery. Amazons music discovery is Aerosmith dream on Zep Whole lotta love it's all crap I burned out on radio years ago. Tidal had improved so much, years ago they'd toss in Jay Zee and Biance when listening to Pantera. 

    I've only used Deezer for 3 months, and I have a wide range of genres I love from mudvayne to piano sonatas. Deezer has the algorithms down, but even more so they have put in blood sweat and tears with very hard work done that goes far beyond algorithms and is organic just like the sound. Discovery is better than Spotify. IMHO everyday and all day

    Sorry for the Tone, but give these guys (deezer) a break and give credit for areas that they do better than anyone including Spotify. I like that player. Not a lot of flash, but I don't listen to music to see how pretty an app is. I hadn't had any skips (I think) I came to Ds defense when I read a couple of peeps ripping them to shreds about being stupid and not caring. 

    As the man said. Nobody is twisting your arm to stay. Go elsewhere, I guarantee you will miss what this gem is offering. Go to Amazon and turn it way down cuz it's harsh. Go to tidal. Musicians have pulled their music out of Tidal for them messing with the recordings. MQA is gone, but those artifacts show up on low volume passages like the old cassette tapes hiss using dolby

    Lastly, if I have to keep asking over and over is it Flac, is it bit perfect or is it lossy lame. When I do this, I'm analyzing the musical sound, and I'm not listening to music anymore. I'm giving myself a headache rather than enjoying the masterpieces. And I've been through this myself. Playing, recording music, and listening to music. I've worked hard to keep my most favorite thing in the world real and that's music. 

     

    Go give Amazon a hard time about how they somehow find a way to bring top 40 music discovery into every genre. whine to them, they'll give you a 5 dollar credit for a new pair of jeans. 

     

    I want to thank Deezer and the workers, for creating the best of the best music streamers. Keep up the good work. If you someday decide to go to hiRes, it will be done with class. Not slapped together like Amazon, as if they're selling clothes. 

     

    Tony

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Verbaluce
    Guitar Hero
    Guitar Hero
    January 7, 2026

    A long time has passed and this feature is still missing. Could we bring this up again?

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