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

[hermesm]

The usage of Spotify via ASD was the main reason for me to have a Spotify Premium account. Sad that this integration is not supported any longer. Will have to cancel my Spotify subscription

[hermesm]

Is there any official feedback from Spotify on this post? 

[Marklippert]

I’m going to do the same and move to Apple Music 

[Jasonroditis]

I have been using the ASD app for many years, as do many 100’s of my fellow dance/choreographer professionals. The only reason I and 100’s if not 1000’s of my fellow professionals subscribe to premium is for our essential work needs. Please give this matter your most urgent attention, as we will unfortunately be forced to find an alternative to Spotify. 

[Benssoon]

I am a professional musician and I have used this app very often in combination with Spotify to help determine how different musicians perform a specific piece, to learn technically challenging music in the context of the full composition, to transcribe music that cannot be found in written form (such as improvised cadenzas), to study and play along with recordings by early music ensembles on my modern instrument and to change the key of a song or piece for study with a transposed version/arrangement. The fact that Spotify no longer works with Amazing Slow Downer is extremely discouraging to me and has a serious impact on my work. So much so in fact that I believe I will be forced to cancel my premium Spotify subscription in favor of another service (such as Apple Music) that does work with Amazing Slow Downer. I am very disappointed by this, as Spotify has been a fantastic resource for me, and I sincerely hope that this decision will quickly be reversed.

[YNG]

I just changed to apple music...

[carl355]

This is a massive smack in the chops for music education and practice sessions. Music slow downers are a regular tool in practice sessions even for professional musicians.

I switched from Apple Music to Spotify for this reason alone.

Please bring it back!

[palstatt]

I'll be moving to Apple Music because of this decision.

[bedabaloo]

Please, reconsider this decision and keep ASD working!

[Trebles1]

Please reinstate supporting SDK's. I'm a Musician by trade and a long time paid subscriber of Spotify. Using the app Amazing Slow Downer along with Spotify makes my practice routine very effective. I'm even considering canceling my Spotify subscription if this is not fixed. Thanks

[ngabixila]

Please please please reconsider 

[bluenorvo]

I use the slow down and pitch change function of ASD as an integral part of rehearsing for scream bands I play for and workshops I participate in. I will have to ditch Spotify for Apple Music if this problem cannot be fixed. 
please fix it quickly. 

Thank you

[Moe8416]

I’m a huge user of this app, i’m an ear trained musician and the ability to slow songs down enough to where i can hear technical intricacies that helps me improve as a musician. Without this app i’ve found that i haven’t been practicing my drumming as much and it has really affected my playing. What will it take to get spotify back? musicians need this tool!!

[Moe8416]

The app im referring to is Amazing Slow Downer!!

[jemaed]

"Serious musicians are committed to the Amazing Slow Downer, we rely upon it, we will pay whichever music source we need to in order to continue using this tool."

Totaly agree and well said! I used asd for so many years. All my colleagues and friends use it as well. It's the best!

Spotify, you will lose so many premium accounts from musicians all over the world. Please reconsider! 

[MuDude]

Please reestabish your collaborative arrangement with Amazingslowdowner. It was so helpful to me as a musician, arranger, transcriber, etc. 

[geshultz]

Folks, we're fighting a losing battle here. We can complain all we want, and Spotify just doesn't care. We're a niche market, and a very tiny niche at that.

[Tzremix]

This isn’t how you win.

[Ogreatone]

I used to use tidal but switched to Spotify solely because of the ability to slow down music via ASD. I use it for learning music,  and as a teacher I use this in my classes to slow down music for students so we can practice.  If this functionality is lost,  there will be no reason for me to continue using this app that pays artists next to nothing. I will just switch to another app, apparently apple music will work. 

[geshultz]

Here's what's going on with Spotify and the music industry in general.

Artists are becoming increasingly more aggressive in protecting their intellectual property, or work product, if you wish. Don Henley hates YouTube and anyone on YouTube that dares play even a single snippet of The Eagles. And, rightfully so, they don't like the mere pittance they get per listen on any of their songs. I imagine they consider Amazing Slow Downer a threat, as it helps others learn their music and to therefore perform it more accurately in public. This week we have seen John Williams, the great modern day composer, issue takedown notices to online sheet music companies that have featured artists, mostly YouTubers, that have "eared out" his scores and themes and arranged far more accurate versions than supplied by the sheet music hacks that sit in booths somewhere dank and dark and half-ass something that passes muster. That's why so much sheet music is utterly useless, and hence the need for a useful tool like Amazing Slow Downer. But alas, pressure has been applied to Spotify to take this action. They are already dealing with a massive loss of subscribers owed to cutting off Russia and the subscribers who cancelled in protest to Joe Rogan. Some estimates indicate they've lost nearly 20 percent of their premium subscriber base. Apple is a much bigger company, obviously, as is Amazon, but I imagine those two companies will have to follow suit and block ASD. 

So it is back to buying MP3's and using TASCAM type gear to do things the way before the advent of the iPhone apps that took away their market.

We can't honestly say that we are aware that artists are getting shortchanged by Spotify, yet claim we have had the last straw with Spotifiy is cutting off this app. It just doesn't jibe.