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

[Tzremix]

I personally know 50 people getting rid of premium because of said
decision. It’s gonna cost Spotify big money over the long haul. It’s just
them showing us once more how little they care about the very people who
give them their product

[Lemoore]

Well let's hope it makes a difference eh

[viret48]

I'm really very disappointed to no longer be able to use amazing slow downer as a musician, it's very annoying. I don't know if I can continue to use Spotify in the future.

[sptfyhavegonemad]

I have been a Spotify account holder since almost the start and a premium subscriber for so many years now. I'm very upset Spotify have come to this decision and will be moving to Apple music immediately. Amazing Slow Downer is a brilliant app and makes my job so much easier. I feel completely betrayed by Spotify and I really don't understand who this decision benefits.

[Mt43]

Hi,

Please reconsider supporting these SDKs. I use it virtually every day on iOS. Such an awesome feature for the ASD and I am sure other developers. 

Please!

Thank you

[GenTpt90]

I am yet another musician who used Spotify premium with the ASD app for learning orchestral excerpts, jazz transcriptions, and teaching my own students to play along and imitate the styles of multiple artists. It is a shame Spotify no longer wants to support the features of ASD since this primarily impacts its subscribers who are artists and educators. I too will switch to another streaming service if this cannot be corrected.

[shepdave]

I've just cancelled my Spotify Premium subscription. If support for iOS/Android streaming SDKs is restored and the ASD app can work with Spotify, it's easy for me to turn it back on. It's important that we actually do cancel our subscriptions and not just say we're going to.

Ah, that feels better! (But I liked Spotify's integration with ASD better than Apple Music's. Maybe they'll fix things, who knows?)

[bradmevans]

I agree. Too many people saying "I'm going to cancel..." Do it now. Plenty
of options. If everybody who has replied to this thread cancelled premium
subscriptions, we would start to be talking in the hundreds of thousands of
dollars / euros of lost revenue. Not the end of the world for Spotify, but
their model is already, um, fragile shall we say?

[Lemoore]

I've been a Spotify user since the start, when it was invite only. I'm not going to cancel, so I will just moan and hope they change their mind. I will look at Apple music and perhaps just join that too for ASD use only. 

It's frustrating as I used it literally every day.

[Lemoore]

Hold on, Apple Music is not supported in ASD.

So why exactly are people moving there? Spite?

[andredesouza]

why cant third party apps have support from Spotify anymore? Most professional musician I know use apps like amazing slow downer to practice and learn songs. 

Please reconsider it. 

[florom]

 iOS devices has support for Apple Music (slow down only, not pitch change) but Android devices has not.

[Lemoore]

Ah ok thanks for the information. Makes sense!

Well we're fcked then I guess.

[Kornelis]

I'm am a user of the app. I use it a lot in my guitar lessons. It's very important to have this kind of tool because it helps a lot for students to learn to play their guitar in good manner. There is no other app available that is so good as this one. Please don't stop the digital evolution which I use in my lessons. It wood be very helpful to have the option back.

Thank you very much!!!

[theresa_l]

Hi! I’m using Amazing slow downer for playing the flute and singing. Especially together with Spotify it is a remarkable good tool for us musicians. Listen to music in slower tempo, change keys and so on. It would be a catastrophe if this not will work in the future. Please keep it going

[florom]

This has been the saddest week in my life as a programmer. I have worked very hard to get in touch with someone at Spotify but it's impossible.
No replies, no information why, not even an initial email from them explaining that they will pull the rug out from Amazing Slow Downer.
I'm Swedish and I'm normally proud of that. Think of Volvo, IKEA, "smorgasbord", Spotify and many other things. Today I am feel ashamed.

The Bloomberg news site has the following article (the section at the bottom mentions Amazing Slow Downer).
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-09-08/a-swedish-company-aims-to-spend-millions-acqui...

Among other things one can read the following:

“In a comment to Bloomberg, Spotify said: “We know that this necessitates an evolution for some apps and hope that they continue to leverage the new SDK.”

It's evident that this person doesn't know what he/she is talking about. I will gladly develop and improve Amazing Slow Downer using whatever SDK Spotify lets us use but the new SDK simply doesn't make it possible to create apps that lets a user slow down a song, change the pitch or other useful stuff. With the new SDK you can create for example an alarm clock app that plays some Spotify tune of your choice as a wake up signal, how cool is that?

Other meaningless apps using the new SDK can be found here:
https://developer.spotify.com/community/showcase/

Come on Spotify and let us developers continue to create useful apps that helps musicians all over the world to improve and create music that eventually will be available at Spotify. This would give Spotify an advantage over any other music streaming service.

Rolf Nilsson / Developer of Amazing Slow Downer

[steennn]

Please change this back vack

[fatherofone03]

I have been a premium member for several years. I use Amazing Slowdowner with Spotify to learn to play guitar. As of today I have canceled my premium subscription and moved to Apple Music. I will become a premium subscriber once again if this issue is resolved.

[fatherofone03]

I went to Apple music. It seems to work fine. I gave Spotify my money for years until this happened. I hope enough people speak up.

[fatherofone03]

ASD does support Apple Music. I am using it right now.