I recently switched from Spotify to Deezer (I absolutely love Flow and the genre/mood recommendations — I’m discovering a lot of new music that Spotify never really recommended to me), but I noticed something unusual: tracks in Deezer on PC sound almost twice as loud as on Spotify at the exact same volume level on my wireless headset. Spotify volume normalization is completely disabled.

What’s interesting is that if I enable volume normalization in Deezer, the loudness becomes almost identical to Spotify (with normalization still disabled there). Why does this happen? I found another thread discussing Deezer’s loudness normalization, but not in this specific context.

My assumption is that Deezer streams the audio signal much closer to the original mastered output in FLAC without additional processing from the platform (even if I switch from HiFi to 320 kbps, the loudness does not change at all), exactly as intended by the sound engineers, so some tracks may naturally sound louder or quieter than others. However, they clearly do not seem to follow the same -15 LUFS normalization target that Spotify appears to apply even when normalization is turned off.

Another possibility is that Deezer’s desktop app simply outputs a hotter signal or uses some kind of built-in preamp/gain compared to Spotify.

This question has really been bothering me because the loudness difference is genuinely massive, and I’d really like to understand the technical reason behind it.

I use the Android app, Windows desktop client and browser version (Chrome). Shouldn't there be a "Move to Top" option when sorting a playlist?

The Queen Of Pop has revealed the tracklist of her new album "Confessions 2"

1. I Feel So Free
2. Good For The Soul
3. One Step Away
4. Bring Your Love
5. Danceteria
6. Read My Lips
7. Everything
8. Love Sensation
9. Love Without Words
10. Bizarre
11. School
12. Fragile
13. My Sins Are My Savior
14. Betrayal
15. The Test
16. L.E.S. Girl

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Hello everyone!

If I will travel for a short time (less than two weeks) will my Premium work without any differences?

Ever since this morning certain songs in an album from different artists are giving me MS0004 errors.

For instance three songs from Joanna Newsom's Divers (Anecdotes, Same old man, YWNTMHA), and three song from Cocteau Twins Heaven or Las Vegas (HoLV, frou frou, and cherry funk) all give me the error but everything else is fine. It's the same across a few different artists I've checked out.

I've cleared my cache, logged in and out, and reinstalled the app like I've seen suggested for this error.

Desktop app doesn't have these issues.

Has anybody else had the app completely fall on its arse the last couple of days? I can't even access my library now, the app keeps freezing and not responding and trying to close. Parts of it work but no search, no library, no music able to play except last played and even that keeps stopping and starting.

Tried all the obvious of clearing cache, stopping, restarting, etc. Just wanted to see if anybody else is experiencing issues before I contact Deezer so I can have a better idea of what I'm dealing with.

I recommend Deezer all the time but I've lost count of how many times I've come up against issues like this now and I think I'm reaching the end of my tether with it.

Thanks!

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It’s one of the main things keeping me from using it. Any news on this at all?

I'm so sick of this app. It's slow, it's buggy, and the discover features aren't great. Are there any alternative third party apps? Im honestly considering just going back to using a portable CD player at this point. I'm so tired of the unpredictability of how this app will react when trying to do the most simple things.

It's Friday and time to share the hidden gems you found this week with others.

Feel free to include Deezer song links to the songs!

I wanted to ask you if on Deezer, like on Spotify, there were requirements to enter the payment pool. For example, a certain number of unique listeners. (I read about the boost if one has more than 500 listeners, but I'm asking about the minimum requirements to get paid and I don't mean the boosts).