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Anonymous

Now on Deezer Family HiFi... no FLAC playback in Sonos S2 app

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
May 11, 2021
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Hi there,

I just got my regular Deezer family plan upgraded to the new Family Hifi plan they offer. So… I have an issue within the Sonos S2 App. It seems that the songs the app pulls from Deezer service aren’t played in FLAC format but in Mp3 only.

When I play a song within Deezer app, everything plays back just fine in HiFi format. But as soon as I use the Sonos S2 app, I’m getting Mp3 audio only.

It appears (by reading the Deezer community) that multiple users are experiencing this issue as well.

My audio quality settings in Deezer are all set to Custom / HiFi for everything (including streaming) and my compression settings in the S2 app are set to uncompressed.

Help ?

Below are screenshots of the same song, both playing in the Deezer app and S2 App.

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Ken_Griffiths

Can someone please teach me how to see whether it’s “MP3” or “FLAC” on the Sonos S2 app please? Thanks!

Whilst the track is playing. Goto the ‘Now Playing’ screen in the App and select the (…) ellipsis menu and then ‘track format’. See screenshot attached.

jgatie

Enough to have Sonos and Deezer locked into a business partnership

There is no "business" partnership, all partnerships between Sonos and service providers are non-monetary. It is free to join Sonos' Music Partners program; any and all can join who are willing to connect with the Sonos API. That is as far as the "partnership" goes.

Airgetlam

To further jgatie’s post, see the Sonos partners page.

Bruce

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mhyde

Lyricist I

I’m just guessing at the internal communications in Deezer..

Deezer Sales - Is Deezer HiFi Family ready to bring to market?

Deezer Developers - We’ve sent a change request to Sonos but they’re not receiving the correct stream yet.

Deezer Sales - Great let’s release it and we can test it works with Sonos properly later, it works fine with other platforms.

Deezer Developers - Shouldn’t we get it working and tested before we release it?

Deezer Sales - ??????

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Minimos

Lyricist III

Hi,

I am in exactly the same boat, just upgraded from a Deezer Hifi individual plan to the new Family HiFi plan and I can only stream in the MP3 format now. Up until switching the acount type with Deezer it was streaming in FLAC. Deezer app on Windows and Android unaffected, they all stream in FLAC so it must be something to do with how Sonos or Deezer now interpret the account type to determine stream type.

Please can someone from Sonos support please chime in on this and link up with the Deezer to get it resolved.

The current UK chat option is not working from the Sonos support site.

I have also opened an incident with Deezer as well, hopefully the more people reporting the issue the quicker it will be resolved.

Thanks

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plm

Contributor I

This is frustrating, I jumped on the hifi family plan just to get better quality streaming on Sonos. Hopefully this is fixed fairly quickly.

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Bixite

Lyricist I

I have the same problem (upgraded from Hifi to Family Hifi). This is really bad since I use 1 Sonos Connect and 3 Sonos speakers.

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Minimos

Lyricist III

Hi,

It looks like the issue is now resolved. I am getting FLAC on my Sonos speakers.

I did raise a ticket with Deezer support, and despite chasing twice for an answer in the last 2 weeks got no update apart from an acknowledgement that they need to chase up with the Dev team.

I was just about to cancel my subscription with them, but its all looking good today

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