Laitcru's Playlists

With the last version of Deezer (so-called V3), Deezer has fixed several lacks.

• First of them, a mp3 title is no longer downloaded as a Flash file in the temporary directory. This was a major default as flash could be easily converted into a mp3 file using, for example ffmpeg. The mp3 file is now downloaded in several parts of 4 kbytes, but it can not easily reconstitued as these files seem are not raw mp3 (perhaps these files have a header part which has to be removed, or perhaps files are crypted, I don't care anyway).
• Second, uploaded mp3 can now really be listened only by the owner, even in a exportable player. Obviously, It wasn't the case in the previous version. Of course, this evolution was necessarly. As a matter of fact, the site and many others have no reason to continue to exist!
  Moreover, the new exportable player have major limitations: playlist is played in random mode, and controls on played song have disappeared !

Finally, the current version of Deezer is not only ugly, it has less possibilities addressing the communauty, and the interface is full of bugs too ! Deezer can always play your downloaded mp3 but the application devoted to upload mp3 is not available ... Probably, under the pressure of major companies, Deezer has released a beta version.

For all these reasons, Deezer is no so much attractive as in the past. Since several months Deezer has a serious concurrent: Spotify. Some people on the net say that it is a Deezer killer. Indeed: Spotify makes use of a peer-to-peer technology: music files may be distributed on several serveurs decreasing dramatically the latence and the serveurs load. Spotify uses a specific application instead of a web interface: on a linux computer the difference is huge: as firefox running Deezer uses 30% of one of my CPU (on a macbook pro 3) Spotify and Wine use respectively 6% and 4% of my CPU. Spotify scrobbles songs play on lastfm account and you can benefit the lastfm communauty tools which are better than Deezer...

So, as you understand, I left Deezer for Spotify... but I hope Deezer will propose a real and novatrice solution, that it is not currently the case with this V3.