Deezer Introduces Search by Lyric

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’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…

Introducing an improved Deezer experience on Xbox: access your favorite songs directly while…

A little context The Xbox Guide By pressing the Xbox button on your controller, you access the Xbox Guide. This is…

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pops up, reading “Error: Something went wrong” Or you’re developing a new feature and attempting to interact with this outdated API that just returns NO when you call [Obscure.sharedManager doYourMagic] … And you’re frustrated!

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…

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…

Real-time Music Visualization on the iPhone GPU

FOSDEM 2018

What is FOSDEM? FOSDEM (Free and Open-source Software Developer’s European Meeting) is one of the largest European open-source and non-commercial conference, taking place annually at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. This year it offered more than 650 lectures presented by 600 speakers on 50 different themes. It’s a real place to share and…

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

Creating cron job vitals with Prometheus Pushgateway

Software Engineering is often all about automating what can be automated. That’s why we build cron jobs. cron is a utility that can be found in any Unix-like system, used to schedule tasks and commands that need to be executed repeatedly (i.e. every hour or every day). For example, we…

Towards an Accessible Player

The “Able Player”, a fully accessible music player that we used as an example of best-practices. You can find out more about it here Earlier this year, Deezer hosted one of its regular Hackathons, giving developers from different teams the chance to collaborate on ad-hoc projects or fun ideas they…

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…

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…

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…

Matching Albums through Cover Art Fingerprinting

I went to a conference on tech leadership, and you should too

In the past few weeks, I got a lot of those. For some reason in our community (or at least, in the subset of it I am currently involved with), a tech conference should be about learning actual technical skills (this…

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…

‘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…

A better way to search for music through query suggestion

At Deezer, we are fully aware that the number one reason why users subscribe to our service is to access the depth of our catalogue of 50 million tracks. And for that the Search is key. Some history To provide a best in class user experience, the Search team at Deezer had…

Lyrics in French Hip-hop: curious? IAM, and you should be too.

Introduction In 2018, hip-hop was the most consumed genre in the United States. Since then, many analyses have dived deep in understanding the lyrics of those artists. However, as the pioneer of music streaming in France, we wanted to know more about how our local stars created their art. With the…

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…

A journey towards Atomic Design on Android

This expansion…

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…

Detecting explicit content in songs

We’ve done some research about how to automatically detect explicit content in songs using only the music itself, and no additional metadata. Since it’s a sensitive and subjective issue, we did not want to use a black-box model, but rather build a modular system whose decisions can be traced back…