[Desktop] Add support for Apple Silicon (ARM64 on Mac)

[stogdan]

Feature request:

Add support for Apple Silicon in a future Spotify release on Mac OS.

Apple have recently released a new generation of Macs based on their own Apple Silicon. I hope that Spotify will prioritize native support for this new CPU architecture.  If so the best music platform on the Mac, will continue running great natively on the new generation Mac hardware.

[Mihail]

Updated on 2021-06-15

Hey everyone,

Thanks for bringing us your feedback in the Spotify Idea Exchange.

Your suggestion has gathered the votes necessary and your feedback is now reaching the internal teams at Spotify. They're aware of the vote count and popularity of this idea. We'll continue to monitor and check out the comments here, too.

As soon as we have any updates on its status, we'll let you know.

More info on how your feedback reaches Spotify via the Idea Exchange can be found here.

[eurohilli]

Bit late for that now, people have left and are still leaving in droves. Didn't you get the memo, over a year ago? Apple, the most popular tech company of its kind, in case you didn't know, are now making all new devices with their own chips. If apps, such as Spotify, want to continue to run on their devices, they need to get with the program and optimise their apps, or get left behind. A voting system like this should not be necessary.

Anyway, I've cancelled Spotify and am enjoying my own music library, I will also soon unsubscribe from this thread because I just don't care anymore.

[Gerwin1978]

"your feedback is now reaching the internal teams at Spotify"

*screams in agony*

It's been ONE YEAR since the dev kits have been available! Are you people living in a cave 5 miles below the earth? 

[fishermanG]

So after ALL this time, this issue just reached your internal team? Is this some kind of automated response? Reply me to prove me wrong. 

@mihail/or other moderators, could you all please take this seriously? I haven't been playing Spotify on my MacBook coz it kept crashing. 

It's annoying AF. It's coming to the point of utter disgust. 

[mularkey]

My experience with Spotify in M1 has been horrible. Crashes 3x + a day. Have switched to Deezer and Tidal until this is fixed.

[Marsel2k]

Cool after 5 years of subscribing Spotify, I finally have reason to migrate to Apple Music. I feel so disappointed that after 1 year of M1 release there is still no support for it.

[kresic87]

As many others here stated, this is completely unacceptable behaviour. It's petty, irresponsible and extremely disappointing and disheartening. 

I expected so much more of a big European tech company that I, as a software developer, admired. After seeing how un-agile and baselessly bureaucratic you are, and how you treat your paying customers, I wouldn't work for you if my life depended on it. Your CTO needs a slap in the face.

I too will vote with my wallet and my Spotify family plan will move to Apple One, not that you care about losing customers, obviously, but that will be just a little f*ck you right back from me.

[CeramicCash]

Haha - well said 

[dylan1322]

Come on! If you can even make a special application for a very unknown DAB radio, why is it taking you as a huge company SO long to make the changes to the app to be able to work on the M1 chip! This isn't rocket science! 

If you can make the app for iOS which runs on basically the same architecture, you can make it for the M1 chip!

[liammpinto]

Its sad that Spotify is loosing customers to Apple Music, but I guess it's what they deserve since the choose to neglect updating their app to apple silicon m1. I mean if Adobe can update the entire suite of apps, I'm sure Spotify can update their music streaming app. 6 months later and no update :(( Time to move to Apple Music.