Deezer Premium

One of the longest-running services and one of only two to have competed in all of our Group Tests, Deezer is unchanged from last year – apart from switching the name of its HiFi option to Premium. Though other lossy tiers remain, this is the second most expensive service on a per-month basis we have looked at, which is awkward as it’s also the most limited.

Unlike its rivals, Deezer is exclusively lossless. There is no hi-res content and neither has there been any indication that there will be.

But before we completely write Deezer off, there are some aspects of the service that are worthy of note. The 90 million figure quoted for library size is pretty abstract, but very rarely draws a blank in searches. There’s also a good selection of curated content, with playlists all the way from ‘I want something to listen to’ to ‘deep dive this genre’. There’s excellent podcast and internet radio integration too. The star attraction, however, is the ‘Flow’ learning algorithm. The more you use Deezer, the better it gets at finding new things for you and, even with rivals making improvements here, it’s still a class act.