Please continue supporting iOS/Android streaming SDKs

[florom]

We have been using those SDKs since they became available.

Our particular app (Amazing Slow Downer) lets the user play music more slowly, since a couple of years ago also songs from Spotify. The "ios-streaming-sdk" is a beautifully designed framework that lets an audio developer do practically everything needed.
In our case it makes it possible to access the raw audio samples and this way process the sound and then playback the processed audio using our regular audio playback engine. With your new SDK this is not possible. It might be that the "ios-streaming-sdk" is more difficult to use for an average developer but that also makes it more powerful.

We have many users that uses Spotify. Many users switch from other streaming services such as "Apple Music", Tidal, Amazon Music etc to Spotify just to be able to slow down streaming music in real time.

We believe our app gives Spotify many many new subscribers, so many that it would actually pay off for Spotify to maintain the "ios-streaming-sdk".

We only use "playlist" functions and after fixing a couple of bugs in the "metadata framework" available on github, everything works 100%. Although there are certainly some bugs in the “ios-streaming-sdk”, they are very few and don’t affect our app.

We also have an Android version of our app that uses your Android streaming SDK and it also works very good.

We believe Spotify will loose thousands of users, so many that the minimal cost Spotify need to spend on maintenance will pay off manifold.

Since our app also supports playback and slowing down of streaming Apple Music, many of our users will probably switch from subscribing to Spotify to subscribing to Apple Music.

You write:

"After September 1st, important functionality in the streaming SDKs will stop working."
Exactly what does that mean? What part of the SDK will continue to work?

Please continue supporting iOS/Android streaming SDKs!

Rolf Nilsson
CTO
Roni Music

[Rowa5588]

Yes, please reconsider and keep ASD working with Spotify!

[abiijoy11]

I use this app, it was amazing to play all category of the song. it plays songs very fast speed, it was the reason for me to subscribe to Spotify. thank you.

[Jerome97]

SDK and ASD has been a part of my work life for some time now. As a drum teacher, this app has been nothing but helpful through out my lesson with my students since drum is about maintaining the tempo and all that, by using this app to slow the song down it really helps BIG TIME! So please reconsider this action spotify 🙏🏻

[Pineweasel]

Another musician here, regularly using this functionality in order to learn bass parts for songs. Please don’t remove this functionality from your SDK!

[Jozefien]

Same here. Please don't remove this functionality. I use it to practice fast songs on my double bass. It is the reason why I am using Spotify more often nowadays.

[Wjs7]

I subscribed to Spotify for the sole purpose of using the ASD app. I am a bass pal and use ASD to learn various songs. Unfortunately if ASD is no longer supported I will discontinue my Spotify subscription. Please keep ASD functional with Spotify. Thanks 

[RobTribe]

I have used the amazing slow downer for years, first to learn and now teach people to play guitar. The ability to take any song a pupil wants to learn and slow it down to a speed that can manage to play along with is a vital learning tool, and being able to do this alongside my Spotify subscription is a huge part of my work. I hope you will reconsider this decision.

[pathcello]

The ability to use ASD with Spotify is a critical function for me in performance preparation, the main reason why I am a Spotify subscriber. PLEASE retain the functionality!!!!!

[Samuel251]

I´m a musician and a user of this app and it helps me a lot when learning tricky songs. Being able to slow things down is awesome and it saves me lots of time! I also use it to change the key of a song if I practice a song that I´m gonna play with a singer that has to sing it in another key. This app is really important to me! 

[cisor]

I use Amazing Slow Downer with my Spotify Premium (Family) account to slow down song in order to help me learn them on guitar, and also use it as I am learning to transcribe music.

I don't want to have to switch from Spotify Premium to another streaming service - please continue to support the "ios-streaming-sdk"!

[joost301]

I ask you to maintain the link between Spotify and Amazon Slow Downer. It's a great way to learn how to play songs as a musician. If the link stops, I have to look for another streaming service and I'd rather not. Spotify: 'Keep on rockin' in a free world'

[Ginomcg]

I use ASD to learn songs on guitar. Please do not stop supporting this great app. 

[jeffrey734]

I've been searching for an app that allows me to modify the audio output directly for a long time and now that i just discover it I see that it's gonna be unsupported. I'm sad of that decision as there's no other alternatives.

[narfboy48]

The ability to set a precise tempo is useful in a music therapy setting, especially where therapy teams are helping a patient recover the ability to walk be training their gait to progressive musical tempos.

Please consider the clinical benefits of not restricting this access.

[ken8310m]

I am a Spotify Premium subscriber and frequent user of ASD. I play in multiple bands and keep set lists for each ad Spotify Playlists. This is the main reason I use Spotify as often as I do. Very helpful for learning and practice, even when the singer sings a song in a different key! I recommend to other musicians to get Spotify Premium and use ASD for practice. I plan place huge value on this and will be sad to see it go. It erodes much of the value I see in Spotify. Please keep supporting it!!

[Calvin24]

 I use ASD with my Premium subscription to Spotify to help me learn guitar parts of songs for my own ear training. If I can no longer do this from 1 September 2022, I will regrettably cancel my Spotify sub and join Apple Music, which enables this functionality. 

[FlamencoMary]

For heaven’s sake, let the Amazing Slow Downer access Spotify. I don’t listen to Spotify for pleasure, I listen to work, and I use the ASD for my work. This division makes Spotify only about 30% as useful, so I will listen to it only 30% as much. Unless I can find another streaming service and then it will be zero. Take that!

[Jeff444]

Please continue to support this feature - it is super helpful for musicians. I have come to rely on this capability and it really helps me to justify the monthly expense for Spotify. I wasn’t planning to switch to switch to Apple Music. I guess that might be a better fit for iOS  anyway. 

[1233433056]

Yes I am **bleep** about this I have paid for subscription to Spotify for years and years.  I was very happy when it worked with the amazing slow downer.  Now you are not going to allow Spotify to work with this app. Very disappointing   I will not be renewing my subscription after the 30th if August.  I have probably spent 1000s of dollars worth of subscription and this is how you treat us.  At least Apple Music slows it down but they don’t change pitch.  But at least they do that so that’s who I’m doing business with from now on and if I can’t change the key I will but it from ITunes.  What a waste of money all these yrs.  

[Julius0]

I’m A musician and a music Educator/music teacher and i use this app frequently!

Every other musician I know uses this too. And it would be too sad If it got to waste!