[All Platforms] Sleep Timer

[SurejNZ]

I am a new user to Spotify from NZ and the first thing I miss having moved from iphone's built in music player is the sleep timer. I understand this feature stopped working in one of the recent versions of spotify App. If it is a compatibility issue partly related to iOS 5, may I suggest that you build a sleep timer into the App itself? 

Also, as suggest by one other Spotify user, Nyx, it would be even better if you could include an alarm featuer so we can all wake up to our favourite playlists within Spotify.

Thanks again for all the great work you guys are doing and we really hope you would consider this new idea.

Cheers

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Update: The issue with sleep timer seems to be working in iOS 8. 

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[hjc]

Updated my iphone to ios 8 - just in case you have not discovered it yet - the timer in ios8 now seems to be working with Spotify so I can use it as a sleel timer.

[_damo]

same here, thank you whoever is responsible for that fix :x

[Teng]

2 years and still no alarm? Come on listen to your customers please!

[MattSuda]

If you are using iOS 8, as of the latest version 1.7 of the app, you can use the built in iPhone timer to stop playing your Spotify music.

Steps:

1: open Spotify app and play a song

2: open up the "clock" app on your iPhone

3: go to the timer

4: click on "when timer ends" and scroll to the bottom and select "stop playing"

5: set the timer for the amount of time you want

6: after that amount of time, Spotify will stop playing music

[takoattack]

I have a solution for windows desktop users who want a time delayed sleep timer for spotify:

Its a rather un-elogant solution but for anyone interested I thought i would post instructions:

Its a simple idea: use a script to generate keyboard controlls of spotify to fade out volume and pause a long playlist after a set amount of time.

I used Auto-Hot key as my script engine, which can be used for many things, I primarily use it on my windows machines as a tool like the auto text complete shortcuts on iPhone.

script engine is free and located here: http://www.autohotkey.com/

Here is my sample script, just copy this into your main script file and keep it running in the background.  You need to click on the Spotify window before entering your keystroke to start the script, so that the keyboard commands are understood by the spotify application and not any other open window / program.  

Below is the script: it starts with a keystroke of ctrl+alt+s but you can chage it to anything you want.  you can modify the time delay in the fade outs, and the time delay before it begins the fadeout.  I have the 5 second sleep line uncommented for testing purposes, it worked for me last night on a 1 hour delay.  sleep values are in ms. good luck and pleasent dreams.  

Optional you can subscribe to my sleep playlist: Chillout Tent.

chillout tent

chillout tent

<iframe src="https://embed.spotify.com/?uri=spotify:user:takoattack:playlist:3XpCIyIPdndUpkw91ozrXj" width="300" height="380" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true"></iframe> 

^!s:: ; start script on ctrl+alt+s
sleep, 5000 ; sleep for 5 seconds
;sleep, 7200000 ; two hour delay in ms
;sleep, 3600000 ; one hour delay in ms

;Volume fade out
SendInput {Ctrl Down}
SendInput {Down} ;1
sleep, 500
SendInput {Down} ;2
sleep, 500
SendInput {Down} ;3
sleep, 500
SendInput {Down} ;4
sleep, 500
SendInput {Down} ;5
sleep, 500
SendInput {Down} ;6
sleep, 500
SendInput {Down} ;7
sleep, 500
SendInput {Down} ;8
sleep, 500
SendInput {Down} ;9
sleep, 500
SendInput {Down} ;10
sleep, 500
SendInput {Down} ;11
sleep, 500
SendInput {Down} ;12
sleep, 500
SendInput {Down} ;13
sleep, 500
SendInput {Down} ;14
sleep, 500
SendInput {Down} ;15
SendInput {Ctrl Up}
sleep, 500
SendInput {Space}

return ;end script

[Frank58]

 Yep, I also subscribe to Real Radio, formaly sky.fm, they have a sleep facility and whilst it's a genre based system, they have a fantastic range of stations. If I was to have to choose between paying for only one service, I would choose Real Radio purely for the sleep facility. I live on my own and I just love goint to sleep to music.

[Sofa1780]

Hey guys, in my opinion this futer is indispensable for premium users, especially when they use the "Spotify Connect"-function.
How lovely is the idea to woken up by your soundsystem itself without doing anything, unless setup your wake-up-timer in your Spotify-app.

🙂

I extremely support this idea.

- cheers.

[MusicMySolution]

Thanks for the update about IOS8 sleep timer SurejNZ!

This will work for now...

#iOS

#Sleep Timer

[PirateKami]

A sleep timer would just be a wonderful fundamental addition, it was what got me to try pandora over spotify first, and now with ads it sucks for sleep, but it is the feature I miss the most. Especially with all the sleep playlists on here. Just saying, it should be a higher priorty than 'not at this time' even if only for premium in beta for now, something that we can give feedback on and we can make work.

[jasogirl]

I see a lot of improvement with iPhone users and that's great, but as an Android user who can't do the same, I'd really like to have an alarm within the app. I've set up a really nice waking up playlist and I'd love it if I could have it play automatically every morning. I know there are probably tons of other requests to look at, but please take this under serious consideration.

Thanks!