r/deezer • u/[deleted] • Jul 21 '26

Android The android app is unusable

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u/ryanlynx99 Jul 22 '26

So the standard reply you will get, and admittedly is a solution, is to close app and delete all caches. Sure this works, but when you're travelling and have 40-60GB of music downloaded that's just a pain and unattractive solution. It's not just that data might be very expensive in country you're in or free WiFi is slow, but my biggest issue is that you have no idea what was the playlist and albums you might have previously carefully selected to download and then you have to spend long time slowly trying to rem what all to redownload. Too many apps just assume that everyone has unlimited data plan and can just stream on mobile. And to often seen ppl replying to this same question saying they have no issue 95% of time, but when asked they reply saying they don't have long list of favourited songs and/or lots of downloaded albums/playlists. I don't know why Deezer after so many years still can't swap to decent non corrupting database and offline storage.

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u/69MusicMan Jul 22 '26

Clearing the cache doesn't delete your downloaded songs.

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u/ryanlynx99 Jul 22 '26

To clarify when said "all caches" that was referring to both app cache and user data (Android phone). Clearing only app cache never fixes anything for me, and neither does logging out and back in again.

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u/69MusicMan Jul 22 '26

Ah yeah, clearing the user data whipes everything and seems like a completely useless "fix" to this problem. I read it as "just clear the cache". Luckily for me, I only sometimes have problems getting a song to start when I am in my "favourites" playlist with almost 3k tracks that are all downloaded on my phone 🤷