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

[Davidyyy]

As a long time premium user I urge you to reconsider and please allow Amazing to slow our favorite songs.

Thank you!

[hansgitaar]

Ah super, thank you!

[Mederson]

As a dance teacher the ASD is such a perfect resource to use whilst teaching. Especially for our dancers who have special educational needs and profound disabilities. Please, reconsider this decision as it affects far more students, dancers, learners than you can imagine.

thank you

Anna

[mckarl92]

I am a musician and music teacher and had been using ASD daily for both my own playing as well as a teaching tool. Please reconsider this!

[wenzel4]

Full support for the people who posted here. I am a professional musician and like so many other i am using Amazing Slow Downer as an important tool for my work. The main reason is the possibility to work with spotify tracks. Many of my fellow musicians use the app as well. I am really greatfull for the big collection of jazz-recordings on Spotify. And i like to see the new releases from my favorite artists.

Anyway, since Spotify is annoying me recently with pop ups, too many recommendations and a social-media-like feed i would reconsider staying subscribed to this plattform if it ceased to work with the sdks.

[HolmesCD]

tunemymusic.com

[HolmesCD]

Regarding Spotify's recommendations, I also find them annoying. Not only are most of them irrelevant to my listening preferences, but once I accidentally tapped on a podcast I had no interest in. For a very long time afterward I kept getting recommendations like that podcast. I turned off as many "social" features and recommendations as I could except for new releases from my favorite artists. I look forward to Spotify changing their stance on the SDKs but will gladly discontinue my subscription at the next billing cycle if they haven't done that in a month - I'll give them that long to reconsider, then I'm jumping ship even if there isn't yet a replacement that works with pitch changes. If I have to I'll buy the songs I need to change pitch with since ASD still pitch changes those songs.

[Rockandrollaz]

I am cancelling my PREMIUM account, until it will be possible to use Spotify songs in Amazing Slow Downer again. Until then, I'll give TIDAL a try. Please make it work again with Amazing Slow Downer, thanks 

[HolmesCD]

Deezer is a good alternative streaming service as well as Tidal. If you want an in-app EQ Deezer has that feature, Tidal currently does not. It's worth checking out both services to see which fits your needs better. You can use www.tunemymusic.com to import your Spotify playlists into many different services, including Tidal and Deezer. It's only free for a few songs, but worth a 1-month subscription to make the switch. I imported my playlists into both Tidal and Deezer so I'm set regardless of which one I eventually stay with.

[125081207]

Worked for me:

https://soundiiz.com/ 

[125081207]

https://audials.com/en/music/audials-music

[FredrikMattsson]

Please bring back this feature!

Fred

[Jacob_Melling]

I literally only got spotify to use it with Amazing Slow Downer... then you guys make it unavailable after one month.

I like spotify... this is going to force me to cancel... and switch to Apple Music.

This is also going to cause me to recommend to my 200+ students that take lessons at our school to switch away from spotify and go to Apple music... because the app we use for them to learn songs on can no longer connect to spotify.

This was a bad move... don't make it hard for people to give you their money.

[FlamencoMary]

I’ve found that Apple music has a very poor collection of flamenco music. I’m going to research Amazon. Yes I’ll have to pay for songs but it’s my only option.

[Marathanz2311]

This is such a big time fail…

I recently had my music school get a Spotify subscription, with the sole intention  of making playlists for educational purposes, to use in conjunction with the Amazing Slow Downer app. ASD is an amazing educational tool for music teachers and students and the former integration with Spotify was flawless and life changing. I also urged my guitar- bass- and vocal students (50 plus on a weekly basis) to purchase the ASD app (and several of them, who weren’t using Spotify before, to get a Spotify account as well…), some new students only recently.

Now, all of a sudden, this whole combination is no longer working…

This makes me feel really stupid and irresponsible towards my students.

And even worse, a large part of my lesson system has to be adapted…

Dear people at Spotify, this really really sucks!

I know for a fact lots of clients are going to cancel their subscription now. They have to, because they have to find another platform that still allows this to work. And they can’t afford a double subscription.

Not a good move at all…

[Drew20404]

Spotify is the only efficient and applicable form and is my favorite form of streaming and I am disappointed that they will not longer be supporting it.

[ducktheworld1]

You suck, Spotify!!! I'm switching to Apple Music.

If you too want to continue using the Amazing Slow Downer app, switch to Apple Music. 

Neil Young is on Apple Music too. Screw off, Spotify!

[Marklippert]

Please please bring back support to amazing slow downer

[musician620]

Please add this feature back. I am a music teacher and use this daily with my students.

Furthermore, my college students use apple music, and I was pitching this feature as a reason to switch to Spotify!! 

[Benjaminleon1]

Being able to slow down songs is invaluable when learning to play them! Please bring this feature back ❤️