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

[alohahawaiikiki]

Joining the flash mob.

Good bye Spotify 

[JDM-music]

The integration of Spotify and Amazing Slow Downer is the main reason I’m a premium subscriber. Being able to slow a song down, change the key, or select a segment for looping is of incredible value to me in learning new songs. If this integration isn’t restored/available, I plan to discontinue my subscription.

[Nogimmickss]

YOU MUST CONSIDER TO KEEP SPOTIFY WORKING WITH THIS APP!! A.S.D is the most used app on my phone. If spotify decides to not be a third party i will cancle my spotify account that i pay monthly. No point of having it anymore. 

[Heavyp69]

Longtime Spotify user...and relatively new to learning guitar. And, the Amazing SlowDowner has been HUGE in helping me learn. So PLEASE Spotify - don't take it away from your users/listeners. 

[Drausch]

I really hope that you reconsider the use of spotify on the amazing slow downer.  I use this feature to learn how to improvize with songs that i alreaady know, and is the main eason that I subscribe to spotify

[gerritliebens]

Spotify’s decision to protect its commercial interests should not be applied to ASD. ASD does not disintermediate Spotify at all, I only use it to slow down music that I found on Spotify. Please involve the execs who made this decision and inform them it should be applied in a granular way. Instead of protecting Spotify commercial interests, they are creating a compelling reason to leave the platform and join Apple Music instead. They must have completely overlooked this side effect. Men fy fan!!!

[elhan0011]

Please give this opportunity back! This is the perfect exercisetool for both singers and instrumentalists!!

[Parrothead8_85022]

I love the way Amazing Slow Downer works with Spotify reference learning how to play a new song on an instrument  (in my case a guitar). I've improved so much and so quickly  by the "slow down" feature alone.  And thats important because I'm 65 and my playing years are numbered.  Please, somehow,  return the compatability of these 2 great  apps.

[LeroyC]

I’m a Amazing Slow Downer user in combination with spotify. I use it as a musician to practise and transcribe music. And also as a music teacher to slow down music for students and/or transpose songs to a key that fitts the student.

It’s a shame that we (me and all my students) can no longer use it.

Please continue supporting iOS/Android streaming SDKs!

[charliekey1]

I dropped iTunes six years ago in favor of Spotify.  I've built several playlists for listening enjoyment (80 hours, 41 hours, 22 hours for example) and several playlists for use with ASD.  The playlists related to ASD greatly help me learn drum parts.  It would be a real handicap to not have this functionalilty.  And, in order to have it, I will drop Spotify like a hot rock and go with Apple Music.  Make the right decision (and keep your revenues whole) and support the SDK feature.  

[zwchief]

I use the Amazing Slow Downer integrated with Spotify regularly as a professional musician and teacher. It is probably the most essential app in my toolbox and losing the ability to slow down or pitch change streaming audio is a huge inconvenience to my work. So much so that I am reconsidering if my subscription to Spotify premium is worth it anymore. Please reconsider this decision and bring back integration with the Amazing Slow Downer!!!!

[shepdave]

I have used Spotify for many years with the Amazing Slow Downer app. I am a musician, and I need this every day for practice. Now this app can no longer work with Spotify tracks because of changes that you, Spotify, have made to the functionality of streaming SDKs. I beg you to restore this capability. Otherwise I am forced to end my Spotify Premium subscription and switch to Apple Music.

Please listen to the pleas of musicians around the world and restore this capability. 

[surafael_tamre]

I’m an active user of the ASD app and it has helped me so much for a lot of my jazz transcriptions I need to do. I love ASD bc it allows me to listen to a song at a specific speed without losing any type of quality! You don’t get the same effect on YouTube because as soon as you slow something down the playback quality gets affected. This app has helped me significantly in hearing exactly what I need to hear when it comes to transcribing and arranging tunes. If Spotify doesn’t reconsider their decision I will be switching to Apple Music because this app is a necessity for me.

[user-removed]

This is only reason I use Spotify, please resume this functionality.

[åzzyåsmund]

When apple music blocked certain featurer of The Amazing slow downer app i immediatly switched to spotify even though it would cost more subscribing. The news that spotify will block third parties to use apps that lets you slow down music is devestating. The amazing slow downer app has been one of the best tools i have used for becoming a better musician. I now consider canceling my subsciption of spotify and go back to other cheaper music streaming services. Please reconsider letting the slow to feature stay.

[Foxknox67]

All ASD-fans:

send urgent email to 

Kulturnytt at sverigesradio. se

(without spaces)

(Swedish Public Radio)

to create further buzz. 

[roninmark007]

We also use this product with our customers which allow a proprietary smart speaker www.handsfreehealth.com and customers with Spotify Premium be able to enjoy listening to their playlists and music hands free on a device that has no user interface.  We would love to be able to keep using your Android SDK as it has been a fantastic product that we market currently.

[jamiebransford]

I am a musician and a teacher. Amazing Slow Downer is one of my primary reasons for subscribing to Spotify. The ability to slow songs down for learning purposes is an essential learning/teaching tool today. If this functionality is removed, I will have to reconsider my Spotify subscription. Thank you for reconsidering. 

[agballen189]

Hi Josh,

Thank you for replying to the community!

It would be really helpful if you can clarify how Spotify is currently blocked from a technical standpoint. Correct me if I'm wrong, but even though the current SDK does not directly have access to audio data like the legacy SDK, the current Spotify SDK does have the ability to change the speed of podcasts: https://spotify.github.io/ios-sdk/html/Protocols/SPTAppRemotePodcastPlaybackSpeed.html. This gives me the impression that all Spotify needs to do on their end is extend this functionality to other audio data and not just anything categorized as a podcast. Of course, whether Spotify chooses to allocate resources to implement this is another story but from what I see, Spotify doesn't seem to be blocked from a technical standpoint.

There are many, many users of apps like Amazing Slow Downer that are only using Spotify because of its integration with these apps. Spotify runs the risk of losing MANY customers to Apple Music because they already do what Spotify's legacy SDK does.

Andres

[musesum]

Done! I was seriously considering a move to Stockholm to startup an App company. Now? Not so much.