[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.

[delinage]

The web does not let me vote, is the vote closed?

[yusufhilmi]

Current version of Spotify in M1 is a nightmare. Keeps crashing after sleep and waiting in the background for a while!!

[oremusa]

It is kinda hard to believe that in 2021 when you pay for a premium membership, you purchase an expensive high-end Apple Macbook laptop and the application keeps crashing. I hope it gets resolved soon.....

[Chechedotmx]

Really Spotify????

[jbjoret]

The Intel version is still working with Rosetta 2, but sincerely the user experience on a M1 Mac is far from what other native apps deliver. Today Spotify on M1 is not reactive at all and sometimes unexpected bugs occur that I do not see on Windows or the iPad. Hopefully this is going to be available soon because we have been waiting for quite some times now.

[_18o5-8g2di7r]

Come on Spoty, just gather your s**t together, swallow the pride and forget wars with apple. It's time to stop punishing us, your customers, and finally release this update to the app.

Electron natively supports m1 already, so it should be a piece of cake to implement the support in Spotify app as well.

PS I'm literally one step away from switching to apple one.

[leoplan2]

FYI Spotify is NOT developed using Electron.

Apple Music is not better either, crashes and it's very slooooooow on my M1
Mac

[TetraVaal]

Spotify is at war against Apple. That's why they're not improving the app on macOS and optimize it for M1.

If you want to have Spotify on the desktop and optimized for Apple Silicon, I found a workaround. 

On Chrome, Brave or Edge; you can use Spotify's web player (open.spotify.com) as an app by clicking the icon in the address bar to do so. After that, it will open the web player in it's own window and it looks pretty much identical to the desktop app:

And there you go. Since all of these browsers are now Apple Silicon optimized, you have your own optimized Spotify app now, too!

The only "downside" to this method is that you can't close the app with the red X button like you can do with the desktop app. You have to minimized it. Not a huge deal IMO, and when it's minimized, the media keys on the keyboard still works fine just like they do on the desktop app. 

[user-removed]

Sorry! The Chromium web app version just isn't an option. Would involve using a Chromium based browser, yakkkkk. 

We sat down with the family, decided to go youtube premium, now that Spotify raised family plan, pay few eur extra get music and ad free youtube. And works in any browser, online open.spotify.com that refuses to open in Safari.

[mikeharr97]

I'm so glad Spotify don't receive any of my money, wouldn't be worth my time waiting this long for a music app to work with a laptop. For a company with the resources like Spotify has, this is pathetic.