[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.

[Stumpington]

@Ph0enixx 

I understand that. But Spotify should implement that in their M1 app. It's a huge UX oversight.

[ButteryStools]

Then submit a new idea rather than commenting on one that’s been implemented

[Hubo]

Hey @Stumpington, thanks for sharing your idea here!

If this is something you'd like to see, I recommend creating a new idea on the Ideas board. That's the best way to get your feedback to the right teams at Spotify. But before you do that, I recommend making a quick search to see if it already exists. 🙂

Feel free to give me a shout, if you have any questions!

Hubo

[matutino]

@Stumpington I browse around Spotify app optimized for M1 using the three fingers swipe, just like on Finder and web browsers, and has been always working like a charm. It might be that if you have setup use two fingers instead of three for browing backwards and forwards it has that weird behavior and won't work within some apps. I think that's why I chose using three fingers for that. Check System Preferences > Trackpad and try changing this option

[Stumpington]

@matutino Thank you. I can confirm that the 3 finger swipe to go back/forward does work on my M1X MBP on Spotify if I set forward/back to 3 in settings.

However this shouldn't be the case. The forward/back should look at the system settings for that behavior, not be hard coded to a 3 finger swipe. As a programmer, I'm not going to say it's lazy coding because I don't know what's going on behind the scenes and I'm sure they thought of this issue. But it's definitely incorrect behavior.

[Stumpington]

I made a new suggestion/bug fix request

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Idea-Submissions/Desktop-Other-Forward-backward-gesture-on-MacOS-M1...

[Serengeti1]

I just bought the macbook pro m1. I installed spotify. It worked fine. No issues. I then downloaded and installed this beta and now the majority of songs on playlists are greyed out. For some playlists, it's every single song. I then uninstalled it and installed the normal mac spotify app again. Songs still greyed out. If i search for the greyed out songs individually, I can play them. Just not on playlists. My spotify is working just fine on windows, iPhone, all other devices.

I am very irritated. Please help.

[Loneliest_Cabin]

@Serengeti1 you don't need to download the beta version - the beta has finished. Just use the main app as normal. Sorry for the confusion.

[Conradus]

MAC OS Big Sur, M1 Macbook.  App is nor responding after being open for a couple of hours. When I try to play a song next day it's frozen. When I try to quit the app (command + Q) it's not closing the app, only forcing quit helps. Then I open the app again and it works. A bit annoying issue. Do you have similar issue? 

[chartz2]

No. Everything works as it should (MBA M1).