Spotify had been accused of limiting their access in much of the developing countries until they finally expanded their reach in Africa this year. What is notable here is that Deezer is available in more countries. By the end of 2022, Spotify is expected to be present in 178 countries. They have available 73 million tracks and 100 million playlists while Spotify has more than 90 million songs and is available in most of Europe, Oceania, Africa, and the Americas. It is also interesting to note that they still make use of this marketing technique to date especially when launching in new cities.ĭeezer is available in more than 180 countries with 16 million active listeners. Needless to say, their initial strategy worked as it soon became a very successful and profitable company. Similarly, Spotify was founded in 2007 in Stockholm Sweden as a music streaming service, right from the start, they prioritized launching in major cities around the world and led a massive marketing campaign by running billboard ads that mocked users' listening habits. It started small with a limited catalog and then eventually worked its way up and expanded its partnerships with different music labels and geographic locations. Deezer was launched in Paris in 2007 as a site that could give unlimited access to music. Of the lossless music providers, it is only 2nd behind Amazon music, at least until Spotify and Apple begin to offer lossless music.Both companies have a similar founding story. The addition of Deezer would also bring a larger catalog of music to Roon users, as Deezer is the largest of the dedicated, music-only streaming services, with over 7 million subscribers. Some Roon users do not, or do not want to use TIDAL due to their controversial labelling of unaltered music as MQA, and suspected down-sampling of MQA processed music as normal, unaltered files for people not using the Master tier. The possible integration with Deezer, which has a lossless music tier and a large music catalog is highly appealing to Roon users. Roon is popular among dedicated audiophiles, despite its relatively steep annual cost due to the tight integration it has with services such as TIDAL and Qobuz, allowing one to seamlessly search and play back music from one’s own library as well as the streaming services as if they were a single library on one’s computer.Īs such, integration with a music service requires extensive work by Roon’s engineers and the service to meet Roon’s high standards of functionality, something Spotify has refused to do. Roon software allows any combination of devices and integrated services to be streamed from a single library across one’s home (or office) network to compatible devices, which can include Squeezbox and Airplay support. Stay tuned for further updates by subscribing to the topic, if you haven’t done so. Our developers confirmed they’re interested in developing this integration, however, we can only consider it after updating our existing SDKs – which is a project undergoing during the course of 2021. On Deezer’s English forums, a member of Deezer’s staff has replied to a three-year-old topic asking for Deezer integration with Roon’s music library management and playback software.
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