Master Deezer at your fingertips by adopting these tips and hidden features on your computer or smartphone.
Since its birth in 2007, the French music streaming platform Deezer has come a long way. Present in more than 180 countries, the service, which has 14 million subscribers, boasts one of the largest music catalogs on the market, with more than 56 million titles.
If the platform is still far behind Spotify and Apple Music, it is still very successful in France, in particular thanks to its optional availability with certain packages at Orange.
But the Deezer app has a lot of secrets and little features that are sometimes unknown to even the most frequent users. Here’s everything you need to know to use Deezer like a pro.
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1. Display the lyrics
You may not know it, but Deezer offers on some titles to display the lyrics. When available for a song on the mobile app, a Lyrics button is displayed at the bottom right of the cover in the player. You just have to press on them to make them appear and start humming.
But lyrics are also available from the service’s app or web interface. Again, when you see a microphone icon just above the player, a click will bring up the lyrics of the track you are listening to.
2. Install the WebApp
Are you having a problem from within the application on Windows or macOS? Rather than going to the web interface manually from a browser, it is possible to install Deezer’s Progessive Web App (PWA), both on PC and Mac.
On Windows, sign in to your Deezer account using the new version of Microsoft Edge, based on Chromium.
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Click the Edge main menu, and then from the Application menu, choose toInstall this site as an application. The Deezer icon should automatically add to the Windows Start menu. You will then just have to open it to directly access the Deezer Web player, as if it were an independent application.
Similarly on macOS, you can install Deezer’s PWA. You will need to follow the same procedure as described above for Windows for this, except that you will need to use the Google Chrome browser.
3. Improve listening quality
On iOS as on Android, the Deezer application allows you to modify the quality of the files played.
To do this, open the application, go to the Favorites tab and access Settings by pressing the icon of a cogwheel at the top right. Then enter the Audio menu then, in the Audio quality section, define the sampling to apply to your listening.
You can, if you wish, configure a different listening quality depending on the type of Internet connection you have. To do this, select Custom, then define the preferred quality for streaming and downloading on the mobile network or over Wi-Fi.
4. Activate fade-out
To avoid too violent transitions from one song to another, Deezer offers an option to activate a crossfade playback.
Open the application, go to the Favorites tab, and go to Settings. Enter the Audio menu, scroll through all the options, then at the bottom of the page, set the duration in seconds, of the sound fade you want to apply.
5. Test functions in preview
On mobile, but also from its online interface, Deezer offers a preview test of certain features of its service.
From the application, go to the Favorites tab and go to Settings. Then enter the Deezer Labs menu.
To access it from the web interface, click on your avatar, and enter the Deezer Labs menu.
The features there may change over time or even disappear when they have, for example, been incorporated in an update to the application.
For now, it is possible to activate desktop notifications and keyboard shortcuts from the web, configure a timer to mute music playback on Android and iOS, or even use Deezer in a display mode. simplified for the car on iOS.
6. Change the interface color
Like many apps, Deezer offers a light mode and a dark mode for these apps.
To activate it, go to the Favorites tab, press the cogwheel to access Application Settings and enter Display Settings. You can then choose a light or dark display, but also switch the reader to monochrome.
IOS users, on the other hand, will be able to force the use of a dark icon for their app on the iPhone home screen.
From the Deezer web interface, click on your avatar, and simply activate the Dark Mode option to switch from a light interface to a dark interface.
7. Remotely disconnect all devices
Can’t listen to music anymore because you have too many devices connected simultaneously or someone is using your account at the same time as you? You can fix the problem by remotely disconnecting all your devices.
To do this, from the mobile application, go to the Favorites tab and go to Settings. Enter the My connected devices menu, tap the device to disconnect, and confirm its disconnection by tapping Remove this device.
From the web interface, click on your avatar and go to Account Settings.
Then go to the My connected devices tab, and click the Remove device button from the device to disconnect from the account.
8. Change the sort order in the playlists
When you listen to a playlist, the display order of the songs is the one defined natively by the playlist.
Tap the double arrow icon to display sorting options. You will be able to display the titles, albums or artists in alphabetical order, or even display the songs recently added to this list first.
9. Identify a song played around you
Like Shazam, Deezer is able to identify a track that is playing in a location where you are.
Open the app and go to the Search tab. At the top of the page, press the blue What is this title button, bring your smartphone close to the streaming source.
Once the track is identified, the cover art of the album from which it is taken should be displayed. You can then add it to your favorites by pressing the heart, or easily find the song on Deezer by pressing the central button with three small dots, then choosing to go to the Artist page or the Album page.
10. Activate Car Mode
Handling an application while driving is strongly discouraged, especially if the interface does not lend itself to it and forces you to take your eyes off the road for too long to change songs.
To limit this risk, Deezer offers Car Mode (on iOS only) to display a simplified interface that is easier to use thanks to its large buttons.
To find it, open the player and tap the car icon at the top right.
A new page displaying a simplified Deezer interface should open. It will allow you to manage the current playback, but also to quickly launch the playback of your different playlists.