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Please make the Spotify Android app functionally equivalent to the Spotify iOS app

Submitted by on ‎2012-02-11 01:43 AM
Status: Implemented

A new version of the Spotify iOS app (0.4.23) has just been released, giving 320kbps streaming quality amongst other improvements. Can you please realease a new version of the Spotify Android app which is functionally equivalent to the iOS app? We need playlist folders (which iOS has had for some time) and 320kbps streaming. Or is Android always going to play second fiddle to iOS in Spotify's world?

 

Update 2012-04-16: Spotify iOS app (0.4.24) has now been release, and still no update for Android!

 

As many of you know, we released the new version of Spotify for Android to the Google Play Store yesterday complete with the following features:

 

  • Top-to-bottom redesign
  • Support for Android 4.0
  • High Resolution Artist Images
  • 320kbps listening 
  • Crossfade
  • Gapless playback
  • Last.fm scrobbling
  • Playlist folders
  • Play queue
  • Home Screen Widget

As a result, my first inclination is to change the status of this idea to "not planned". Our logic is this: The wording of the idea suggests that in order for one version of the Spotify app to remain "functionally equivalent", Spotify would actually have to hold back the release of another version of the app.

 

However, I shy away from changing the status to "not planned" for fear that the status could be misinterpreted as an initiative on the part of Spotify to refrain from updating the Android app in the future, which is certainly not the plan.

 

I'm going to go ahead and and change the status of this idea to "implemented" in light of the recent release, but I would like to remind folks of the inherent nature of app development and circumstances which could arise which leads asymmetrical development of applications.

 

Happy listening 🙂 

Comments
Brent212
Roadie
2012-02-22 08:24 PM

Now that I've discovered playlist folders in the desktop app I NEED THEM in the android app. PLEASE.

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OldBeno
Casual Listener
2012-02-28 11:20 AM

As everyone else says I now am deeply in love with Spotify and when I found Folders I almost reached climax....

 

But then I looked on my Galaxy S2 and my eeepad Transformer and I don't see my folders, I felt betrayed.  

 

Come on Spotify maybe Apple were ahead at some point in the smart phone market place but surely you can see that Android is the future.

 

please note I used to have an iPhone and am not a fan boy of either product in anyway....that is all.

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timfidler
Casual Listener
2012-02-28 02:44 PM

Taking playlist folders as an example, how hard could it be to get this implemented in the Android version? An afternoons work? OK - I'm probably exadurating, but since the feature was launched on the desktop in August 2010(!!), there's been no sign of it at all for Android.

 

18 months!! That is truely insulting. Just get it done, PLEASE.

 

I can't believe how loyal I'm being to you.

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mitoral
Newbie
2012-03-08 08:07 AM

320 kbps streaming is also a needed feature. Although 160 kbps sounds good for listening "on the way" (vorbis codec sounds better than mp3), when I connect the android phone to good equipment the differences between 160 (q5) and 320 (q9) vorbis encoded files are totally audible.

 

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Dojan
Newbie
2012-03-19 04:06 PM

It is completely rediculous that playlist folders have not been implemented yet in the Android app, I agree with the timfidler that that shouldn't be so hard and we do pay the same subscription fee as iOS users.

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blau
Regular
2012-03-22 09:47 AM

I'm also an Android User. My Headphones cost 60€ but I can't use their fukk potential with 160kb/s Tracks. Please give us 320 kb/s. Please!

 

Playlist Folders aren't as important as the Quality but they make the navigation so much easier.

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Rorey
Spotify
Spotify
2012-03-29 08:42 PM
Status changed to: Watch this space
 
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Rorey
Spotify
Spotify
2012-03-29 08:48 PM

Similarly, I've posted an update on a similar idea regarding Android.

 

Nevertheless, watch this space for updates as well.  We'll be sure to keep you updated in both. 

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aadster
Newbie
2012-04-08 06:59 PM

im getting pretty sick of spotify's go slow on android and any non ios platform.. is it really that difficult for a company with millions of users to keep one quite basic app on a couple of platforms up to date at the same time? its as if they take fee paying android users for granted, whilst trying to poach a few itunes users. Poor!

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SteveBrammer
Community Legend
2012-04-16 10:04 PM

Since there has now been yet another iOS update and still nothing for Android users...

https://twitter.com/#!/nevyn/status/191974367494807552

I would just like to reiterate, once again, that I would very much like a Spotify Android app that is funtionally equivalent (where technically possible), or even better than, the iOS app.

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