[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.

[ABRS]

"Spotify in Chrome" really isn't a replacement and TetraVaal obviously does not know (or care) about all drawbacks. Yes, it will work, but.. In that case it's just better to stick with Spotify using Rosetta. My opinion, use it at your will.

[qoro]

Many users have suggested using the web app in the meantime, but that is hardly a solution, because the web app does not give the highest possible bitrate for neither the free plan (128kbps on the web app, 160kbps on desktop), nor the regular Spotify Premium plan (320kbps on desktop, 256kbps on the web app). I don't think HiFi is even supported there. While these bitrate differences are not significant (especially the 256kbps vs. 320kbps. Apple Music uses the former, and yet, users hardly see the difference), coupled with not being able to download songs, it is a big disadvantage. For me, it's the 'not getting something you pay for' part that makes the web app useless. Might as well just stick to Rosetta in the meantime. I see updates being pushed out quite frequently, the experience is getting more and more stable with each one. I think Spotify will do its best to make the performance better on the rosetta version of the app for the meantime, because they're at "war" with Apple. I hope they finally release the arm version sometime this year, the battery draining issue, as well as the longer startup and crashing after re-opening the laptop are all very irritating.

[fishermanG]

Hey dev team. How much votes is considered 'necessary'? It's been over 6 months since your last reply and the release of M1 chip. 

At least, keep us posted on the progress. 

Thank you

[user-removed]

Now that spotify increased the price for family plans, I am moving my family to youtube premium, that gives us youtube music premium too. No app needed, will work in browser on my mac. Spotify, thank you for ignoring us and goodbye. 

[TetraVaal]

@ ABRS and qoro: yes I know there are drawbacks to using Spotify in Chromium, but on my end the desktop app crashes at least weekly, hence why I suggested it. I prefer Safari for general browsing, but Brave is good also for the stuff that glitches in Safari. Plus its built-in ad blocker is a nice plus.

[furkanicus]

It's crazy that it's been almost 5 months and almost no updates. The current application crashes every time my device goes to sleep

[PS1607]

Although running through Rosetta works fine. But, it crashes randomly. 
A universal or Apple Silicon version would be much appreciated!

[dudoripenem]

Just coming from an Apple Music Family Subscription, I am on the verge of switching back.

I came here to check the timeline as to when the release date is for the native version of Spotify for ARM Macs but I was absolutely horrified to learn that "We are still waiting for enough people to vote for this feature before we start working on it".

Please excuse me, did I read that wrong!?

I am slowly transitioning away from Apple's ecosystem, and things like these is making my life 1,000,000 times harder. Support for widely used platforms and devices should be automatic. Any self-respecting developer should already be planning, or should have at least started development for this. Even small indie devs with free softwares have already released updates to make sure their software is running natively on ARMonMac. 

When I came to this psuedo-democratic-wannabe-community website of users voting for features left and right, I was just looking for a release date. That's what I normally do when I see that there are a handful of apps on my Mac that are still running on x86 architecture, but I was given the shock of a lifetime.

You don't even now if you would do it. And you WON'T DO IT, until 'enough' people ask for it. Just, wow.

Message to the developers: This is a NOT A FEATURE and THIS DOES NOT NEED to be voted on. You are a 67 billion dollar company capable of hiring an army of developers to port your software.

Don't get me wrong here, I applaud you for allowing people to mold the development direction of your applications when it comes to features, but come on. You do not need the community to tell you EVERYTHING.

This is an absolute joke.

If you don't want to, then fine. The least that you could do is allow us to download the iPad or iPhone versions on the Mac App Store. Is that so f&*$&6 hard?

Otherwise, I'm gonna have to continue giving Apple my money.

[cag5280]

It's ridiculous this needs a "feature request." This should already be in the works (most other companies were able to get Apple Silicon releases out at or near the launch of the hardware. Docker already has a production-quality version released with M1 support, and that is an infinitely more complex piece of software than Spotify.

Rosetta emulation is not a permanent replacement, and this version is clearly less stable (I am also getting the Spotify crashes, which never happened on my Intel) and less performant. Spotify is also an atrocious memory hog (likely due to Electron usage), so now would be a great time to finally make a true native app!

[mnin]

I can only agree with the last two posts here, this is not a feature, but the current state of Apple's hardware. Apple Silicon ARM64 is the future. Not Intel x86_64.

And again as a reminder: as a developer, I already had the Apple DTK available at the end of June 2020 to prepare my software.

If you have users who have already adapted it, you can either say we'll implement it too, after all Spotify runs on iOS too. Or you tell people that you don't want it for some reason and would rather focus on the web app for political reasons.

The last stable version 1.1.58.820.g2ae50076 introduced a bug, instead of now forwarding the CrashLog to the developers and saying, we're on it, we expect a fix in three weeks, in the next release, etc., we're going to implement it would be just support.

What this is, is probably a trend that runs through many software/hardware companies, you talk to the users as if they have no idea, put them off, make no more statements. Does not fix bugs, but takes the money of the users gladly unrestricted further.