Deezer adds HiFi to Premium accounts, adjusts pricing

[Chromatischism]

First, I really like Deezer as a service. The interface and mobile app are great and the track selection is very good. Most people would say this change will make the service more competitive, however, I would really like to see multi-channel music like Atmos audio rather than this.

Listen to your favorite tracks in the best audio quality, now on Deezer

Starting from your next invoicing after 9/29/2022, we'll add HiFi audio quality sound to your plan, so you can enjoy the music you love as if you were right in the recording studio.

With HiFi audio, your favorite tracks have a wider dynamic range and benefit from better instrument separation. They sound crisper and better than ever.

HiFi audio is a deluxe music experience that you're going to enjoy across all your devices, from the desktop app and web player to any iOS or Android smartphone. HiFi audio will also be available on Xbox, Chromecast, Sonos and your other compatible devices.

To further support our efforts to provide you with the best service, best sound quality and exclusive content, we'll be increasing the price of your Deezer Premium subscription to $10.99.

You'll see this new pricing automatically applied on your next invoice after 9/29/2022.

Enjoy your new benefits, and thanks for choosing Deezer!​

 

[Emlin]

I know little about Deezer and it rarely gets a mention when music streaming services are discussed. What's it like compared to the others?

 

[Brian Hall]

I know little about Deezer and it rarely gets a mention when music streaming services are discussed. What's it like compared to the others?

Very late to this thread. I just gave Deezer a try with the one month free trial. I canceled it after one week, well before the free month was up.

I'm not impressed at all. A lot of the music I tried just sounded bad. Like they boosted the loudness too much and compressed the hell out it. It is supposed to be CD quality which I like, but it sure doesn't sound good. Some did sound ok, but not any better than Spotify.

I also have Amazon Music HD, Spotify and Youtube Music. All have better sound quality than Deezer.

Additional reasons: The app is very plain and badly designed. Even worse than Amazon's.

I gave it a try on my phone, a Wiim Ultra and an Eversolo DMP-A6.

 

[Chromatischism]

I'm not impressed at all. A lot of the music I tried just sounded bad. Like they boosted the loudness too much and compressed the hell out it. It is supposed to be CD quality which I like, but it sure doesn't sound good. Some did sound ok, but not any better than Spotify.

I also have Amazon Music HD, Spotify and Youtube Music. All have better sound quality than Deezer.

Hold the horses. Deezer sounds better than YouTube music. I tested this, so much to go as far as including measurements to send to YouTube's Dev team to explain what was wrong with their loudness. I really hope they have fixed it by now because I couldn't make it work with my system.

But back to Deezer. I've seen objective measurements taken between all of the major providers and Deezer always scored very well.

 

[recycle]

Very late to this thread. I just gave Deezer a try with the one month free trial. I canceled it after one week, well before the free month was up.

I'm not impressed at all. A lot of the music I tried just sounded bad. Like they boosted the loudness too much and compressed the hell out it. It is supposed to be CD quality which I like, but it sure doesn't sound good. Some did sound ok, but not any better than Spotify.

I also have Amazon Music HD, Spotify and Youtube Music. All have better sound quality than Deezer.

Additional reasons: The app is very plain and badly designed. Even worse than Amazon's.

I gave it a try on my phone, a Wiim Ultra and an Eversolo DMP-A6.

BS

 

[Brian Hall]

Example song: Mortemia - What Else is There

Link from web player:

What Else Is There? (feat. Zora Cock)

Mortemia - album - 2022 - 1 song

deezer.page.link

Link from phone app:

What Else Is There? (feat. Zora Cock)

Mortemia - song - 2022

deezer.page.link

Open Qobuz

open.qobuz.com

https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0B...728357396&ref=dm_sh_4v89Up7GcPyulSSxzfeL2u6WE

I hadn't tried the web player for Deezer before. The above song sounds better with Deezer's web player than with the app on my phone, the Wiim Ultra and the DMP-A6.

Just listened again on the Deezer app on my phone using a Fiio KA17 dongle dac with my HD800S headphones. The version on the app is worse than the version on their web player. The link from the app is different too as seen above.

I still have Qobuz also. Just played that song on Qobuz on the DMP-A6. It also sounds better (it is 16/44.1 on Qobuz too).

 

[Brian Hall]

Hold the horses. Deezer sounds better than YouTube music. I tested this, so much to go as far as including measurements to send to YouTube's Dev team to explain what was wrong with their loudness. I really hope they have fixed it by now because I couldn't make it work with my system.

But back to Deezer. I've seen objective measurements taken between all of the major providers and Deezer always scored very well.

Did you use the free youtube music or premium?

See my post directly above this one with links.

I am surprised that Deezer's web player version sounds better than the version in their app.

 

[Brian Hall]

BS

Very helpful response. Glad you took the time to post it.

 

[Bleib]

I know little about Deezer and it rarely gets a mention when music streaming services are discussed. What's it like compared to the others?

It used to be good, but last time I tried it let me listen only a short period of time before asking me to pay for their service
Haven't used since then

 

[Chromatischism]

It used to be good, but last time I tried it let me listen only a short period of time before asking me to pay for their service
Haven't used since then

Wait, do you have a paid account?

 

[Bleib]

Wait, do you have a paid account?

No, I'd rather buy music through bandcamp and actually support the smaller artists
Deezer used to be free with ads, but it has changed quite recently

 

[someguyontheinternet]

Deezer enables sound normalization by default which messes up the sound. Make sure that the option is disabled.

 

[Chromatischism]

No, I'd rather buy music through bandcamp and actually support the smaller artists
Deezer used to be free with ads, but it has changed quite recently

It's been at least a few years.

 

[Chromatischism]

Deezer enables sound normalization by default which messes up the sound. Make sure that the option is disabled.

Good call:

 

[kyuu]

Deezer enables sound normalization by default which messes up the sound. Make sure that the option is disabled.

Loudness normalization is a necessary evil, by my estimation. It may "mess up the sound" occasionally by pushing the peaks into clipping (the only negative effect it can really have, btw, as otherwise it's the same as adjusting the volume knob), but the alternative is to have to constantly change the volume as different tracks have different levels of perceived loudness.

 

[Bleib]

Loudness normalization is a necessary evil, by my estimation. It may "mess up the sound" occasionally by pushing the peaks into clipping (the only negative effect it can really have, btw, as otherwise it's the same as adjusting the volume knob), but the alternative is to have to constantly change the volume as different tracks have different levels of perceived loudness.

It could be done in a smarter way. Since they have all the files stored they could normalize peaks to 100%, this should prevent clipping
But we live in a world where companies can't figure out to make shuffle work in ways that just played songs are not repeated again