Engines revving for my first hackathon!

Since the previous…

What The Bug? Our method to detect outliers

Who are we? We are the Data-Analytics team. Insights, numbers, dashboards… we provide data to our company. The goal? Help business and product teams in designing music and digital experiences that will be the best they can be for our users. Why do we need to detect outliers? As a tech data team, we rely on different KPIs. We check…

Women’s Voices — A Product Story

Part. 1: Women’s Voices — A Product Story Part. 2: Women’s Voices — A Brand Story Part. 3: Women’s Voices — A Data Story Part. 4: Women’s Voices — A…

From a few insights to a key feature

Product conception is based on a multitude of factors: data analytics, market research, benchmark, feedback from users/stores/customer support, user testing, intuition…And it always requires a few steps (and sometimes more than expected) to go from the initial concept or hypothesis to the final product pushed to all users. During my…

Computing Royalties at Deezer

Deezer, as a streaming service, needs to pay royalties to music providers (record companies that make their music available on Deezer) as well as publishers and copyright collective management organisations so that the music you listen to gets payed at the right price according to the number of times it…

Musicathon — Let’s Rock IT Innovation

Women’s Voices — A Brand Story

Part. 1: Women’s Voices — A Product Story Part. 2: Women’s Voices — A Brand Story Part. 3: Women’s Voices — A Data Story Part. 4: Women’s Voices — A…

Deezer Data @ DataWorks Summit Berlin 2018

Shows and conferences about the fast-evolving data technologies follow one after the other and yet each one is so unique! No year passes by without any new challenge to be discussed within the active and passionate data community that Deezer is proud to be part of…

My first job as a Web Engineer, from doubt to fulfillment

This is what you’ll typically find in the ‘requirements’ section of a tech job vacancy: “Has strong knowledge in several languages, is “full-stack”, is able to create strong architecture, scalable and flexible, has experience in understanding large and complex code bases, must be proactive and organized, has a great team…

Web and Surf Summit afterglow: a Product Manager’s review

1001 ways to code your projects, 1 way to meet your needs

Have you ever noticed that there are about 1001 ways to do something, especially in software development? As I tell every developer who joins my team, especially interns or junior devs, no one knows everything and every solution should be considered. I was recently confronted with 1001 ways of doing…

‘Hey Siri, play my Flow on Deezer’ (part 2): integrating SiriKit with Deezer

Following WWDC19 announcements, Deezer quickly decided to support Media Intent with SiriKit. To know more about all the benefits of integrating a voice assistant in your app, you can read this post written by Anna Louis, Product Owner of Voice at Deezer. Adding support of SiriKit…

Focus and Contrast

The Deezer logo as seen by someone with Protonapia (Red-Green Color-blindness). This image was created using the Chrome extension ChromeLens, which allows you to view a website as seen by someone with a variety of visual conditions, from color-blindness to those with partial sight. In the last article, we looked…

Private libraries in Android — why you should consider it.

Part 1: Private libraries in Android — why you should consider it Part 2: Private libraries in Android — how to manage them Libraries are one of the foundations of Android development. Think about all dependencies in your Android projects…

Matching Albums through Cover Art Fingerprinting

“Hack as you are” — Story of a Hackathon at Deezer

Today, more and more employees decide to work for a company not only to climb the career ladder or for financial reasons, but in order to…

From 2 weeks to 15 minutes — How we optimized playlist generation

Visualize your music DNA with Data

At Deezer, we take the world of music and make it personal. That’s why we designed Flow, your personal soundtrack, and a dynamic home page to help you find your perfect tracks in no time. But does personal content only revolve around music recommendation? Of course not! This article will…

Merging like it’s 2099

Anyone who has worked with a big team on a big project has experienced merge conflicts at least once. Presentation of AutoMergeTool at AndroidMakers 2017 If you have never seen a list of ‘CONFLICT’ lines when rebasing or merging…

Deezer Research @RecSys 2017 — 11th ACM Recommender Systems Conference

A key aspect of Deezer product is providing our users with a personalized listening experience. To pick the perfect tracks for the right moment, a wide variety of signal processing and machine learning algorithms are involved in Deezer’s…

Content Import en PHP chez Deezer

Deezer is a partner of the PHP Tour 2017 and several of our developers…

Women & Hip-Hop

Playlist inspired by the article: Women & Hip-Hop playlist - Listen now on Deezer | Music Streaming nielswww.deezer.com Introduction Hip-Hop was born in 1973 on 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, NYC. On January 4th 2018, it became the most consumed music genre in the United States, surpassing rock for the first time in history. In between those years, Hip-Hop and especially rap music…

Releasing Spleeter: Deezer R&D source separation engine

In a nutshell We are releasing Spleeter to help the research community in Music Information Retrieval (MIR) leverage the power of a state-of-the-art source separation algorithm. It comes in the form of a Python Library based on Tensorflow, with pretrained models for 2, 4 and 5 stems separation. Spleeter will be presented…

From Paris to Bordeaux, an interview with Deezer’s CTO

On this (special) occasion, the…

‘Hey Siri, play my Flow on Deezer’ (part 1.): a product introduction

Voice interactive devices and services have significantly spread over the last four years. Consequently, voice assistants have become smarter and more sophisticated in their ability to handle new and complex demands. Moreover, voice assistance has also become an available feature in more and more devices. In 2018, Apple announced that…