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Spotify Testing Siri Support on iOS 13
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I don't know why I read the comments anymore... "It took too many clicks", "Do I have to say On Spotify? Can't I just make it default already?!?"... Seriously? This is what we complain about these days? A full what, 2 seconds of your life saying "on Spotify"? Or clicking the broadcast button to chose your airpod? What were you going to do in those 2 seconds your highness? Write a brilliant life changing novel? Maybe you'd solve world hunger?.. I think not. All people do is complain. No one remembers what it was like to change tapes, tune a radio dial, switch a record or run while awkwardly holding a Diskman so it doesn't skip... It's all now! Now! NOW! me! Me! ME!!! You're lucky Apply let you do it at all considering it's 1) their OS and 2) they provide a music service. It's not Apple that's crippling innovation... it's you and your constant complaining. How can a company innovate if all you've got is complaints? This is why Steve Jobs is desperately missed. You don't like the iPhone? Stuff it, this is what it is until I decided to change it. He wasn't afraid to tell you, this is what it is. And you know what, you grew to like it. LOVE it even! No ones doing that these days, they stopped innovating and started pandering.
Well can't you be more complicated that that?
You can use Apple Music to play on your iMac, directly Airplay it to the Apple TV so that it plays from your great speakers. You can also control your playback with Airplay 2 to any room in the house, with your iPhone or Siri command.
Apple Music also allows you to cache 100,000 songs for offline use, instead of 10,000 limit that Spotify gives you. And finally Apple Music also has iCloud Music Library with which you upload your own songs that's unavailable on Apple Music, and sync it across all your Apple devices.
You literally have all the tools, and all Apple hardware needed to make your music streaming life way easier, and you had to use Spotify. LOL
I can understand anyone wants to keep their Spotify plan if he/she is a casual user with mixed hardware from Google, Amazon or Apple. But if you own iPad, iMac, Apple TV, Apple Watch, maybe a HomePod or two, jumping ship to Apple Music couldn't be more obvious.
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Been an Apple user for 30 years, macrumors member since 2002 and am a huge Apple fanboy. Having said that, for me, there are still a lot more reasons to use Spotify versus Apple Music even if you put aside mixed Google/iOS. Obviously this is a personal thing, so maybe they are better for you, but they aren't for me.
Don't let Apple off the hook for not supporting these companies better.
How is Spotify relevant in Apple ecosystem ?
Users want choice. I personally think Spotify is trash, but I'll defend your right to pick it over Apple, Amazon and Google's offerings.
I’m not entirely surprised they are actually working on that feature this quickly since they took Apple to court over it. Spotify usually takes no less than several months to bring new features to their apps. Hopefully they are adding Shortcut support too. Apple also needs to have an automation trigger for connecting wired headphones or charger so we can launch our favorite media apps automatically. Almost like back in iOS 8 or 9 with Proactive (now called Siri Suggestions but they don’t suggest correct things lol). The lower left hand corner of the lockscreen used to show the Spotify icon whenever I plugged headphones in. I could slide that icon to open right to Spotify.
My point is that I can stream it from any device, to any device I own.
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passJust use Apple Music
Hey, here's a thought: when you see a thread about software you don't use, maybe just move along instead of stopping in to piss on other people's choices?
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I’d kinda like to move to Apple music, but we’re an Alexa household and the skill is still too unreliable, and also I get Spotify free with my Vodafone SIM Only tariff (UK).
i get a 60% friends and family discount, which gives me Spotify premium, unlimited minutes and texts and 50Gb of data for £14.60 per month, so tough to give up.
I like the Spotify interface too.
i get a 60% friends and family discount, which gives me Spotify premium, unlimited minutes and texts and 50Gb of data for £14.60 per month, so tough to give up.
I like the Spotify interface too.
I believe there used to be -- I remember playing one of the curated lists (Spotify Weekly maybe?) and having access to the like/dislike button from the lock screen.
This is nice, but it's still an unfair advantage to Apple Music so long as other services can't be made the default.
It also annoys me that if you randomly/accidentally touch the play/pause control on headphones when you don't have something already playing, it defaults to playing some random songs in Apple Music. I want to be able to set the default service for this feature, too.
It also annoys me that if you randomly/accidentally touch the play/pause control on headphones when you don't have something already playing, it defaults to playing some random songs in Apple Music. I want to be able to set the default service for this feature, too.
Oh okay. 🙄
Sure it’s two seconds for one somg, but multiple that up over the course of your life for every song you ever want to play. It will start to add up.
But hey, if two secomds is no big deal then fine...instead of calling your significant other by short names like “honey” or “babe”, start using their WHOLE name (First, middle, last) each time you want to say something to them and see how fast that gets old.
This might be the most asinine response I've ever received... Also, either your spelling is atrocious or your "N" button is broken. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt assume you have a broken butterfly keyboard.
But hey, "A" for effort there! Unfortunately people don't call their significant others "honey" or "babe" as a time saving effort, those are terms of endearment. Just for reference I call mine "beau."
Your attempted flex was cute tho.
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I know what you mean. I also had been using Spotify for 3 years before switching to AM in 2016. It wasn't fun because I had to recreate all my playlist from scratch. But it was worth the effort since I can stream music, while enjoying all the benefit within Apple ecosystem. Yes I personally love Apple's locked in garden.
I do agree that some of Spotify playlist curation is a bit better. But the convenience of running it on Siri and iOS devices is what made me switch.
With that said, I don't think Spotify and Apple would be a good friend ever. Siri support would be a bare minimum, and vice versa. You'd need to tell Siri "Play X on Spotify", everytime.
Spotify is in bed with Samsung, it's not impossible that Samsung will acquire Spotify one day. If anything Spotify will always have better integration with Android and Samsung phones.
You can't just blame Apple for "not supporting these companies" because Spotify isn't too keen of supporting its iOS ecosystem either.
FINALLY! Once this is completely rolled out, goodbye Apple Music and hello again Spotify! Just hope it works with HomePod too?
That would've been awesome. Spotify only launched recently in India and we've never had that function here. It is very cumbersome when I'm jogging and I want to like a specific song.
... why would you need to? Why would that even become and issue? You're comparing software built into a system vs software the system will allow to run. Do you tell your iMac to boot into MacOS? No, but you'll need to tell it to boot into windows if you're using a dual boot. If you're so worried about saying "On Spottily" then just use Apple Music.
I think what people are suggesting is that there should be a place in iOS/Siri to specify one's preferred music service along with preferred web browser, email client... as you can on a Mac.
Oh no, some typos! 😱 Call the police!
And way to completely ignore my point. It’s time saving effort too. When you go up to a friend, you say “hey Fred”, you don’t use their entire name each time you address them. Why is that?