For Fellow Deezer HiFi Users

[SyCoREAPER]

The following will only be useful for probably a small number of people here, nevertheless, I wanted to share.

For my fellow Deezer HiFi users, I recently started streaming my music instead of always using my good cans. I thought the sound was off and investigated if it was possible the output quality was not actually lossless. In the quest I came across the link below
https://en.deezercommunity.com/othe...-stream-to-chromecast-audio-66162/index5.html (purposely not hyperlinked because I hate text links).

To summarize, Deezer staff claim HiFi works via casting and the HiFi icon missing was a bug. I take most CS responses with a grain of salt since they are script monkeys reading from a paper. Here is what I actually found:

 

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Not good! It might be interesting to try on a device that indicates the bitrate, via led or display? Mind you such devices probably won't be casting but 'direct play'. I've just renewed my Qobuz sub, pricey but SQ is great.

 

[SyCoREAPER]

Not good! It might be interesting to try on a device that indicates the bitrate, via led or display? Mind you such devices probably won't be casting but 'direct play'. I've just renewed my Qobuz sub, pricey but SQ is great.

I considered quboz but they are A) Way more expensive and B) Most music I listen to is mastered 44/16 as indicated by Quboz so I didn't want to switch.

Not good indeed. As mentioned my AVR's builtin Deezer app shows that it does pull the full 44/16 but I still wanted to monitor traffic just so I could conclusively prove that casting HiFi is a falesy, at least as of early 2024.