Deezer – Free Music

July 9th, 2008

For those of you who haven’t already heard of Deezer, it’s a fantastic and free way to discover new music and to share it with your friends. It’s a eclectic mix of a music community, a jukebox where you can listen to music online, a Pandora-like “SmartRadio” service and a range of community features such as news and games.

It is a French website and the site is (as far as I know) fully licensed and legal in France and other countries. Certainly Deezer seems to have been around for a very long time, is fairly popular and hasn’t been taken offline so it would seem to be totally legit. The site is supported by advertising.

When Pandora closed it’s doors to listeners out of the UK, it had a big effect on me. I loved listening to Pandora on the computer because it played the music that I liked and without any adverts. Deezer’s SmartRadio does exactly that. I’ve discovered a lot of new music through Deezer and what’s great is that you can go back and listen to it at any time through the search feature.

You can also link to and embed songs into your webpage. e.g. Check out Utopia by Goldfrapp.

Deezer gets my seal of approval!

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9 Responses to “Deezer – Free Music”

  1. # We7Steveon 10 Jul 2008 at 7:42 am

    We7 is a UK company to offer free music online for streaming and and downloads and already has deals with major labels, loads of indies and individual artists, so you can find pretty much whatever you want.

    Steve Purdham
    CEO We7
    http://www.we7.com

  2. # iPhone 3G on Pay As You Go (UK) | Cow's Blogon 17 Jul 2008 at 8:21 pm

    [...] that works on the move. The Pandora application, though presumbly US only, provides that. Hopefully Deezer works on the iPhone. And I can think of quite a few occasions with which Google Maps and checking [...]

  3. # P2P Intelligence and Monetising Media | Cow's Blogon 25 Jul 2008 at 9:13 pm

    [...] is of course a middle ground. For example, Deezer is a legitimate music service which combines freely-available streaming music with a social [...]

  4. # Top 5 Places to Listen to Free Music Online | Cow's Blogon 31 Jul 2008 at 9:53 pm

    [...] is my personal favourite on-demand music website and I’ve recently interviewed Paul Ricard from Deezer for a feature [...]

  5. # Spotify offers free streaming music; how does it compare to Deezer? | Ken's Tech Tipson 08 Aug 2009 at 10:10 am

    [...] a year ago, I introduced Deezer to readers of this blog – one of the websites which pioneered the whole model of free [...]

  6. # Johnon 18 Aug 2009 at 10:21 pm

    Whats happened to Deezer its pathetic now?

  7. # Modestyon 29 Aug 2009 at 8:37 am

    It’s true – Deezer blows now – they must have gotten slammed. I’m in Canada – could this be a “country-by-country” issue? If so, it’s worth getting into proxies etc. Wow. Deezer really sucks now and there’s no official news – they should come clean and say what went down.

  8. # markon 02 Oct 2009 at 8:16 pm

    Rubbish ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, most of the tracks on my playlists are greyed out now

  9. # Michaelon 12 Jan 2010 at 5:14 am

    Agreed. I gave up on Deezer a while ago. My playlist here in Canada is pretty much frozen. I’m satisfied with a mix of Radio Paradise, Smooth Lounge, KCRW, and Grooveshark.

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