The popular music streaming subscription service Deezer recently unveiled a clever new “search by lyrics feature” that other major players in the streaming game would do well to latch on to.
- Shazam is a useful tool to identify songs playing around you. Looking to listen to these songs on your favorite music platform? Follow this tutorial to be able to import Shazam history and library to Deezer.
- With MusConv you can easily import Deezer to Shazam! How to import Deezer to Shazam. Transfer between Deezer to Shazam was never so easy! 4 easy steps: 1 Select source as Deezer service. 2 Select destination as Shazam. 3 Select playlist you want to transfer. 4 Take a coffee and wait till we move songs for you 😉 Try.
- Ever heard of Shazam? Deezer has a similar feature within the app for identifying the song that’s playing wherever you are. In a different vein, Spotify has the Crossfade feature for eliminating the gaps between songs. Both streaming services work with Carplay and Android Auto, but Spotify can also be integrated with Google Maps and Waze.
Most-streamed artists: the best music for you. Access a wide range of content, anytime, anywhere. Searching each shazam is redundant. You have to add shazam's to deezer one at a time, then search from deezer tracks one at a time from your database to see if you may have a track already. I wouldn't call that niche I would call it simplifying the process. Or am I the only one who uses shazam regularly?
Guest post by James Shotwell of Haulix
Popular subscription streaming platform Deezer has a new search feature that its competition would be smart to copy.
Spotify and Apple Music are the gold standard in music streaming subscription services, but they’re not the only platforms on the market. With more than 16-million active users, Deezer is a rising global competitor, and their latest development is turning heads throughout the industry.
Deezer users can now search for songs based on lyrics. The feature, which debuted earlier this month, is unique to the French-owned company. Users can look up any song using lyrics alone as long as they know four consecutive words in that track.
“Music fans have millions of songs at their fingertips. Recalling some of the lyrics is often easier than remembering the actual name of a track. Our job is to make sure that listeners get to the tunes they want quickly and easily and our new advanced ‘search by lyrics’ feature delivers on that promise,” says Matthieu Gorvan, Deezer’s Chief Product and Technology Officer.
Deezer is also ahead of Spotify on spatial audio, supporting Sony’s 360 Reality Audio format. There are only a handful of tracks that support the new format, but that collection is steadily growing. Deezer’s SongCatcher is also built-in, whereas Spotify has nothing similar. Apple Music users get Shazam for their music discovery.
James Shotwell is the Director of Customer Engagement at Haulix and host of the company’s podcast, Inside Music. He is also a public speaker known for promoting careers in the entertainment industry, as well as an entertainment journalist with over a decade of experience. His bylines include Rolling Stone, Alternative Press, Substream Magazine, Nu Sound, and Under The Gun Review, among other popular outlets.
Other than being an avid techie, one other thing that defines me is Music. I’m an absolute audiophile. Many like to make fun of the fact that my phone is home more than 2000 songs.
While having all these songs on-tap is nice, the future is in Streaming and as such, I’m also big on music streaming. I have tried almost everything out there. For a long time, Spotify has been my go-to music streaming platform. But it is not officially supported in this part of the planet so I had to jump through a bunch of hoops to enjoy my favorite tunes but for a music junkie like me, it’s almost always been worth it.
But all that is changing. I am ditching Spotify for it’s closest competitor, well, if we’re excluding Apple Music of course, Deezer.
I wish I had a whole list of gripes that inspired my move but I don’t. These are just my personal experiences. Also, for the most part, these two music streaming Giants are comparable.
Convenience for paying for monthly subscription
I know it’s probably not wise to admit this here but, I haven’t paid for Spotify. Not once. I’ve always been using these modded apps that mimic premium features, opening myself to security loopholes associated with these bootleg apps.
But I have been meaning to pay. I have tried to pay for Spotify for years. But since it isn’t officially available in my region, they can’t take my money, be it from my credit card or my PayPal.
Deezer on the other hand, is officially available in Kenya and many other regions. Paying for Deezer is as simple as opening a PayPal account, linking it to M-PESA, transferring the required funds and that’s it.
Deezer sounds so much better than Spotify on every earphone/ headphone
I know I’m not alone here. One song, two different platforms and many people can tell which one sounds better. And it is almost always in favour of Deezer. And I have listened to streams from premium accounts so I know it is not the mediocre quality supported on Spotify’s Free plan.
Local Playlists
I am not very big on local music. But safe to say, I have never searched for a Kenyan/ Tanzanian or any African pop song and missed it on Deezer. The same can’t be said for Spotify, although to be fair, the delta here is rather small as Spotify has almost any song you can think of.
Flow is just as good, if not better than Spotify’s Discover
Deezer Shazam Free
One thing we can all agree upon, Spotify’s Discover Weekly is insanely good at getting you new songs you would have otherwise never known, but then they end up being you favorite songs. Deezer’s Flow feature is also really really good at doing the same thing.
Deezer’s new UI looks sleek
See, Spotify is kinda like Poweramp back in the day. Release after release, the layout remained virtually the same. While this is good for consistency and ease of use, you know, if it’s ain’t broke, don’t fix it; it gets boring really really quickly.
Deezer’s app for mobile used to be….ugly to say the least. But a few months ago, Deezer rebranded their app, complete with a new icon, a fresh coat of paint and the app looks good.
Google Assistant is supported on Deezer as well.
Spotify is a huge platform on Mobile. And as such, Google Assistant is fully supported. You can even set it as your default music player and as such, you can simply say ‘Okay Google, Play Sarah Bareilles’ and just like that, you’re jamming to heartbreak songs.
I am not sure whether this has been available on Deezer for a while but it is available. You can simply say ‘Okay Google, Play Sara Bareilles on Deezer’ and you’re in business. Although I have to say, I have had Google Assistant drop the ball on Deezer a lot more than it does on Spotify. But you quickly learn to tell it how to play your music.
Deezer has a deep interaction with Shazam and SoundHound
One of the conviniences I love as a techsavvy audiophile, it is the ability to Shazam or use SoundHound to identify any song I hear. Be it in restaurants, in movies, even while commuting.
Simply Shazam a song, tap the three dots and open on Deezer. Add that to an album and later on I can simply kick back and jam to all these songs I have identified through the day.
It is such a simple thing that can easily be overlooked and Spotify just doesn’t do this well. Maybe it is because of the beef between Apple Music and Spotify now that Apple owns Shazam, or the fact that I can’t purchase premium on Spotify but I have switched camps.
I ran a poll on Twitter and obviously, most of you guys chose Spotify as your go-to. But it is 2019 and these ‘underdogs’ have come a long way. If there’s ever a time to try out the alternative, this is a good time as any.
UPDATE
Deezer’s SongCatcher
While Deezer still plays nice with apps like Shazam and SoundHound, it also runs its own Song-identification service, SongCatcher. The service which is powered by
Deezer Shazam Torrent
Since the service is built into the app itself, it now allows for things like the ability to add newly identified tracks to your favorites and/or playlists within Deezer and for Premium users, the ability to immediately play saved and favorite tracks from SongCatcher
Deezer Shazam Online
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