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"Ohhhh that's why then..." (this is what you should be thinking when you read this post, if not then you don't use Deezer enough : ) )

Paul — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:27:00 +0000

Why are certain tracks not accessible on-demand?

As you may have noticed, some tracks from bands like AC/DC, Led Zeppelin or Die Toten Hosen are not accessible on-demand anymore. Please know that we are not responsible for this, some labels with whom we have agreements, do not have the necessary authorization to broadcast their songs on Deezer (what happens to Deezer also happens to other websites offering music-on-demand).

We’re sorry for this situation but we’re doing our best to obtain the right to broadcast those artists again, so that you can listen to them for free and legally!

Why aren’t the tracks following up each other?

There are a lot of people asking us why, when you’re trying to listen to all the songs from the same artist, the tracks are not following up each other;
In order to make you discover new artists and to browse new musical universes, we’re offering you (by subscribing easily and for free) to create your playlists and to listen to all your favourite songs and to also get back this functionality of having the songs following up each other.

Well now that you know... well you know.

Stay Tuned!!

Paul (yeah no P&P from now on, the poor fella's back to school)

Deezer Team | Part 3 : Webdesigners

Paul — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:46:00 +0000

Hello Buddies,

The Deezer Team tour continues with the presentation of our web designers, Jacinthe and Hortense (yeah, they’re chicks, don’t ruin your pants ok? ; don’t worry girls, the hot boys of the team are coming next, even though we know you like us best, right?)

Anyhow here is Jacinthe, hard to pronounce? I know…Make it sound kind of like “ Jah Saint” (even if we know that she’s far from being one…), her nickname is Jazdrek and she’s 24, her favourite quote is “Instability is necessary to progress. If you stay where you are, you’re going back”, it’s from Coluche, a French humorist. Her favourite artist is Vitalic even though her favourite song is “Coté Punk” from Loïc Lantoine. We asked her for something unusual about and she answered there were many, and I must admit she’s quite right, we could talk about her deep love for Sponge Bob, the way she fancies Rayman, oh and her last purchase: A talking and dancing “Wall-E” robot. Still wondering whether or not she a real geek?

And here is Hortense, she’s the latest intern to join the Deezer adventure and we’re glad for that. Her nickname on the website is Zorstens, she’s 20 and also is a web-designer, her favourite quote is “Look for the bare necessities” from the Lion King. Her favourite artist is Bob “Jah love” Marley and the song she likes the most is “les champs de rose” from Danakil. When she was 10, her sister offered her to go to a Bob Marley concert, she was very happy until she... We’ll let the smartest of you figure out why, leave a comment if you’ve found the reason why. The first one to find the answer gets a piece o’candy. Oh yeah, and there’s another mistake hidden in the text, we already know it still we won’t fix it, cause life’s unfair ^^ !

Talk to you later guys.

Deezer Team | Part 2 : Developers

Paul — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:46:00 +0000

Aloha!

Some days ago, we started the presentation of the Deezer Team! After the Country Managers, today we’re glad to present you the Developers of the Team! Here… we… go!

First, there’s Stephanie, aka Footeuz! She’s 23… hmm well, that’s what she said! She tried to fool us but we know you have to reverse the digits to get the real number (Funny eh? No? You sure?)! She’s a PHP developer, and she’s responsible for the musical catalogues integration! Her favourite quote? “I’ve been told that, to record a CD, you need to sleep with the producer. Just think of what the guy who produced Sim looked like!” (it’s from Coluche, a French humorist). Her favourite song is “Le silence est d’or” from Blankass. Something incredible that happened to her? Well, SHE says there are many… (just kidding, we love you, you know that) For example, someday as she passed in front of the Olympia (a famous concert place), where a soccer trophy ceremony was given, three players went out of it, and gave her their bracelets so she could get in! What happened is that she was the only girl in the middle of all the first and second division of French football (Cissé, Pauletta, Ramé, Müller, Boli, Galthié, Laporte, Guerin etc...)… a miracle for the football fan she is, while dozens of fans were waiting outside with their cameras trying to spy on the event!

SirConan (the poor little fella didn’t dare to provide his real name) is 28, he’s a flashman (in other terms: a flash developer)! He’s responsible for the flash interface of Deezer. His favourite quote ? Hem… You’d better not know it…(and FYI it was "IYA"..., only the geeks can understand...!) His song he likes the most is "Paint It Black" from the Rolling Stones… When we asked him about something unusual about him, here’s what he answered: “Mairie de Montreuil to Rue Menier in exaaaaactly 17 minutes, at 9 in the morning, during the week, on my (former) Honda Hornet 600! And guess what… I could have done better…” It’s like a 45 minute drive normally… Legal Disclaimer : No one was hurt during the event, it was done on a closed road, do not try this at home. (Geez, who would be stupid enough to use a motorbike inside a house anyway??!!)(Oh yeah and we lied about the road being closed, doing that was just dumb.)

Loïc is 26, he’s a flash developer too! His favourite quote is “I’ll give you an advice: NEVER drink alcohol while driving, you could spill some and it would be wasted!”. His favourite song is "Exo-Politics" from Muse. Something funny (to me at least…) happened to him, one day after a heavy night in a local bar, his best friend took him home, after climbing up the stairs with him to be sure he safely got home, she asked for his keys and he gave her the keys of his cars, swearing that the keys of his car and his home were the same and that if it didn’t work it meant that she was drunk as well. The point of the story? Telling you that drinking too much is bad (that night he had drunk the enormous amount of… a half pint…) and that it leads to trouble! You have been warned.

La Globule is 29, he’s a PHP developer too, his favourite quote is “More than 8000” (You don’t get it??? We don’t neither…). His favourite song is “The way U R” from Soel! A useless fact about him? “Useless ;-)” did he mention, he’s the kind of guy you don’t want to mess with so we didn’t ask for more… But if some of the chicks out there in front their computers want to find out more about this man, send us a mail and we’ll transfer it to him… No, just kidding.

Jonathan is 21, he’s also a PHP developer. And… well that’s it! As you may have noticed, he’s the most talky person of our team… TRUE STORY (I’m sorry for all the fans waiting out there, but he’s not really good when it comes to talking about himself, but he’s good at PHP and that’s why he’s part of the team so we’ll excuse him for that short presentation, for the moment…

That’s all for today ladies and gentlemen, we’ll be back after the break (This is the part when you click on the ads on the website so that we earn money, we can’t do that for you ;-)!

P&P