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…

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

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…

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…

Deezer Introduces Search by Lyric

Matching Albums through Cover Art Fingerprinting

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…

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…

Some Fun with Deezer Data and Elastic Graph

A year ago the Elastic team released the Graph product, whose promise is to offer: a new way to discover, and explore, the relationships that live in your data. Here we will describe how Graph could be used on Deezer data to rebuild our “Similar Artists” feature. What do we…

Engines revving for my first hackathon!

Since the previous…

Content Import en PHP chez Deezer

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

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…

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

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…

“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…

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…

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…

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…

‘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…

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…

‘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…

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…

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…

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…

ISMIR 2018 HAMR @ DEEZER HQ

In 2018, the September rally is pretty exciting :) For the first time in its history, Deezer is really proud to be partnering with ISMIR, the world’s leading research forum on processing, searching, organizing and accessing music-related data.