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

[mark72029]

I use this app on a daily basis. I am a music teacher, and it is an invaluable tool for not only myself, but my students. I will switch to a different music service if Spotify does not work with this app. My students will do the same.

[125081207]

With the September 1st 2022 deadline approaching, I add my voice to the chorus of Spotify Premium subscribers pleading for continued full integration of Spotify with the Amazing Slow Downer.   I use the app daily for musical learning, transcription and instrumental practice.  The ability to vary the playback speed and adjust the pitch are crucial to these activities.  Please continue to support the older, mobile streaming SDK, or enhance the current, app remote SDK to provide the same capabilities. 

The Amazing Slow Downer app is one of the best advertisements for the Spotify service itself among musicians.  We're not just listener users -- we are the very people who create and amplify Spotify's content.  Please provide a Software Development Kit that supports our musical development.  Please don't turn your back on us!

[valarking]

+1 for another who will switch services whenever I get a chance due to this

Apple Music is also adding better classical music support (after acquiring Primephonic) while Spotify continues to drag their new classical music playlist down further every week. Seems like the choice will be easy!

[carstenrun]

Oh no! As a musician, I need ASD to work with Spotify!

[PValhalla]

I'm a musician and music educator. I switched to Tidal but switched back to Spotify in order to be able to use Amazing Slow Downer in my training and teaching practice.

Please do the math 🙂 

Don't stop supporting streaming SDKs please.

[Wookin]

I am a musician and have absolutely loved the fact that I can play Spotify tunes through the Amazing slow downer app. This has enabled me to learn tunes in different keys and slow down difficult parts to learn. I frequently advise other musicians to do the same and is the main reason that I use Spotify. Please can you explain why you have changed this fantastic feature.

Many thanks,

Wook 

[ShoShocka]

I will cancel Spotify after being a paying subscriber for over a decade if I'm unable to use the Amazing Slow Downer on your platform. Apple will take my money and I will give it to them freely if I can use their platform for this (pun intended) amazing app.!

[hakfaste]

Spotify you need to reconsider and keep your SDK for ASD and others’ use. 
This is critical. 

[antux]

Please bring this back!

[Irkenn]

I'm not a profesional musician, not a developer, just a guy who sits with his iPad and play songs along with the Amazing Slow Downer App. It is incredibly useful and practical.

Please maintain this feature, otherwise I guess I'll have to change streaming platform.

[12159539849]

I am a professional musician.  We use Spotify to create and share playlists for gigs.  I encourage many peers to join Spotify because it is so useful for discovering and learning new music. 

I have subscribed for several years.  Despite the stigma against Spotify I am still a strong advocate simply because it is such a useful tool.  I know there are thousands of musicians out there who agree. 

there is an app we have been using alongside Spotify for years, the amazing slow dower by Roni Music.  This app allows us to slow down and pitch correct music that we stream from Spotify.  If I need to learn a blazing fast Van Halen guitar solo i can slow it down.  If I need to learn a recording where the tape master was reproduced at an off speed and the recording sits in between C and C# I can fix this so I can play piano along with it.  

ASD is an invaluable tool for musicians and the fact that it will no longer work with Spotify could force musicians to obtain their content elsewhere.  

it is in Spotify’s best interest to collaborate with Roni Music and the Amazing Slow Downer to retain the capability to use Spotify streaming music with the App.  

Thank you for your consideration.  I hope I can continue to use Spotify as the valuable tool it is and do not have to change the way I obtain music.  

Greg Goad

[parker_ware]

As a long time user of Amazing Slow Downer, I was quite disappointed to learn that its compatibility with Spotify will be discontinued.  Amazing Slow Downer is an excellent music practice device when combined with the Spotify catalogue.  I hope this change will be reconsidered.

[Mandolinist]

As a musician I am very disappointed to see Spotify removing compatibility with the Amazing Slow Downer  (ASD) app. Using Spotify with ASD was what made me choose to pay for Spotify instead of Pandora. I play piano and mandolin; I learned piano during my school years, and began mandolin lessons in my late 20’s. I use ASD almost exclusively to help with learning mandolin music. Learning mandolin as an adult (as a serious hobby) I don’t have as much time to practice as I would like. Spotify and ASD have provided resources that have helped me learn pieces better and faster, and that I may otherwise have given up on learning. Being able to use Spotify with ASD has also been very helpful with learning music for the mandolin orchestra that I play with. Whenever we get a new piece, the only reference is often a midi, which I find rather impossible to play along with. Being able to find a version on Spotify and then use the tools ASD provides has enabled me to learn many pieces with a minimum of frustration. 

Spotify, please reconsider removing the support for SDK’s, or work with the ASD developer to make your apps stay compatible. Otherwise, I will seriously be considering dropping my Spotify subscription. 

[Maxwelllevenson]

PLEASE!!! DO NOT TAKE AWAY SPOTIFY! It will make you’re app much more useless, as a significant amount of ASD users use it through spotify. I strongly recommend you reconsider this decision, as it helps so much and brings so much ease to the educational aspect of music. The app is great, and it has been a part of many musician’s lives for many years, it would hurt me to have to see it go and have to find an alternative, which frankly there isn’t really one as good. It would just be much more of a pain and take away a lot of the practicality of having options of streaming services to use. What incentive Spotify has to make this move doesn’t at all make sense to me, and whatever the reason is, it certainly isn’t as considerate and wise as just staying put and deciding against leaving ASD. This message is certainly not an anomaly, this is how a majority of us are feeling, and in the interest of the customers and users which you companies serve, I strongly suggest you rethink this decision.

[Jamsbm]

I pay for Spotify premium and I use amazing slow downer for teaching purposes. EVERYONE knows this is because of money. Why not give people the option to pay more if they want this feature. Otherwise I will have cancel my subscription and move over to strictly Apple Music. I guess you want to lose subscribers to Apple Music, Congratulations!

[andygrooves]

I have the same problem, I have the premium family plan and will need to cancel Spotify unless this is resolved (sadly I don't expect anyone from Spotify to pay any attention to Musicians and music teachers needs though) 

[gregers12]

Was going to practice today. Got crippled by this decision. Thanks guys.

[jjheadd]

Me too. Spotify, why do you not listen to feedback from your paying subscribers? Your service became a lot less valuable this morning. 

[spinal_tap]

Right on time and without a word of reply on this thread - ASD and Spotify are no longer operational. 

[Russ10]

I subscribe to Spotify to learn songs using the ASD app. I am a full time musician that gets a lot of fill-in gigs. The fact that I will no longer be able to do this makes it likely I will cancel my Spotify subscription.