[Language] Catalan Translation

[aleixvidal]

UPDATE: It's finally here!!! Spotify in Catalan! Thank you all! Meanwhile, I will wait to close the idea until all app versions (including Desktop and Web) are available in Catalan. Thanks!

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It's been a while since Spotify has become a mass service used here in Catalonia. For years, different users have asked if it would be possible to have the different Spotify apps available in Catalan, our language.

It's not hard to have the desktop apps (Win, Mac, Linux, Web) and the mobile apps (Android, iOS, Windows Phone...) translated into Catalan. A lot of other services and apps have included Catalan years ago (services and products from Google, Apple, Microsoft, Mozilla... already include it).

We understand that Spotify AB has enough resources to translate their apps and services to Catalan. Why Belgians, Canadians and Swiss can have the apps in two different languages and in Spain there is only one option? Why people in Andorra don't have the option to choose their official language, Catalan?

[mambo_n_3]

I am an avid Spotify user, despite the fact that Spotify has never bothered to include my mother tongue amongst the options available. If it fails to do so in the near future, I will consider switching to a platform that does offer its interface in Catalan. I really want Spotify to have a Catalan option, as I really like Spotify and do not want to take my business elsewhere, but I like feeling taken into account more. 

[eduayme]

+1

[kanhorta]

Why did you close the proposal in the past? Spotify supports languages with far less speakers than Catalan.

It's about time you translated the app.

[mwerner_]

It would be really great to have spotify in Catalan! I'm really looking forward to it!

[pepseg]

Member of Spotify since 2009, I am reconsidering my membership if Catalan is not proposed as a language option in a short time.

[Sokelxavi]

We could say that of the 11 million people who live in the Catalan-speaking regions, , about 10 million use it at least passively, more than 7 million know how to speak it, and at least 5 million use it as their main language of communication. Depending on the figure used, Catalan ranks differently among the European languages. In the worst-case scenario, Catalan has more speakers than Danish, Slovak, Slovenian, Estonian, Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian and Norwegian. According to the most optimistic calculation, it is demographically comparable to Greek, Portuguese and Swedish. (http://www.ub.edu/sl/en/socio/faqupc.htm )

[yerbouti]

If the number of catalan Spotify users is comparable to the numbers of greek, portuguese or swedish!! Spotify users, then why isn´t Spotify available in catalan? What is the reason? Which is Spotify criteria for translating the GUI into a new language?

[1133663044]

Hi,

It's an excellent idea.

We want Spootify in our Language (Catalan)!

Josep Maria

[Discemdi-Blau]

Hi han molts artistes que canten en català, milers, i molts d’ells amb milions d’escoltes, El català el parlem mes de 10 milions de persones, no l’heu d’ignorar !!!

[joandeskarat]

Visca el català! Volem el català!