‘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…

Lifting our 2,000 favorite tracks limit

Co-authored by Virgile Carron Adding tracks to favorites is one of Deezer’s most important features. It’s been here for ten years now. It’s the best way to save the content that you love and above all to help us suggest awesome music according to your tastes. It’s also the essence…

HAMR@ISMIR2018 — Deezer HQ

We hosted the 2018 ISMIR edition of the HAMR Hackathon. It was awesome, people from all over the world collaborated on fun and innovative research topics during two days. A lot of very cool projects emerged. Most of them won’t stick but some will, and that -you have to admit…

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…

What’s Right with Errors

You’re enjoying your app when suddenly an error message pops up, reading “Error: Something went wrong” Or you’re developing a new feature and attempting to interact with this outdated API that just returns NO when you call [Obscure.sharedManager doYourMagic] … And you’re frustrated!

Engines revving for my first hackathon!

Since the previous…

Women’s Voices — A Product Marketing 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 Introduces Search by Lyric

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…

A journey towards Atomic Design on Android

This expansion…

Let’s meet at Android Makers 2017

Next week, Deezer will be partner of Android Makers 2017. Several of our Android engineers will join the event to enjoy the technical sessions, workshops, and debates, learn from others and discuss about our mobile technical challenges and opportunities.

Content Import en PHP chez Deezer

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

Back from Kubecon & CloudnativeCon Europe 2021: key learnings and takeaways

At Deezer, we think that taking part in the community is of utmost importance. Contributing to open source projects is the best way to do so, but participating in community events should not be overlooked. And when you work on Kubernetes platforms like we…

Private libraries in Android — how to manage them.

Part 1: Private libraries in Android — why you should consider it Part 2: Private libraries in Android — how to manage them In the first part of the series, we talked about the benefits of private libraries. On top…

Updating Kubernetes CA certificates the hard way

So buckle up; it might be a bumpy ride! The hard way yes, but automated! At Deezer, Kubernetes has…

‘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…

Improving your ingestion performance using the multidisciplinary approach

When it comes to solving a problem, developers often tend to use the technologies they’re comfortable with — the technologies they work with on a daily basis. Most of the time this is fine — we work within a specific scope in which this technology makes sense and has already…

A distributed computation system for deep learning experiments with Docker Compose and RabbitMQ.

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…

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…

Musicathon — Let’s Rock IT Innovation

Women’s Voices — A Product Design Story

This post is part of a series about the women behind ‘Women’s Voices’, an in-app story created by Deezer for International Women’s Day: 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…

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…

“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…

Using a “go links” service in your organization

When I joined Deezer three years ago, the onboarding process (called DeezCover) was undergoing a complete redesign, so mine was relatively brief. I struggled to find my way around the company’s organization and documentation as I stepped into my new job. Of course, there was an internal Wiki, but you…