Well, I dropped HomePod for it's lack of Spotify support.
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Spotify Users Growing Impatient and Canceling Subscriptions Over Lack of Native HomePod Support
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Well, I dropped HomePod for it's lack of Spotify support.
For a company who loves to complain about “unfair treatment” from Apple, Spotify sure loves to drag its feet on implementing the features it has control over on iOS.
It’s always been about the money. Not empowering developers or artistes.
It’s always been about the money. Not empowering developers or artistes.
I cancelled my Spotify for this exact reason. They’re clearly not interested in adding the feature. I now use Apple Music and haven’t looked back.
The only major thing Spotify used to have on Apple Music was audio quality. Apple flipped that on its head with the addition of lossless audio for the same price. No brainer for audio people like me, not to mention syncing with my 5000+ songs in my personal legacy iTunes library across all of my devices. Spotify has better playlists, though.
Not sure what you’re trying to say here. Compared to most of the other feature request threads on Spotify’s forum it’s a pretty significant number of comments and votes for the feature.
Not really. It was 256Kbps AAC (AM) vs 320Kbps OGG (Spotify), which are more or less equivalent because AAC is a much more modern codec.
Many here are quick to defend any “gate” as just a few out of millions. Even after apple admits and offer a program. These threads are often hundreds of pages.
But you knew that. Come on.
Your comment was worded ambiguously, or maybe its my afternoon slump. So you’re saying Spotify should implement this feature similar to Apple offering a repair program because there are so many people asking about it?
Maybe the same? Nothing special about Spotify from my usage. Waste of money. Apple Music is at least bundled with other services. So, less of waste.But, not heard raving reviews for Apple Music either.
Has Spotify indicated that this is the case somewhere that I am unaware of? If the delay was cause of apple, I can’t imagine Spotify not broadcasting that given they seem to absolutely hate apple.
Maybe Spotify has (or had) ambitions to launch their own speaker (I've heard of wackier). If so, they would definitely launch a major marketing campaign to tease and support such a development. [Given the radio silence] It's possible they were targeting "in time to hit this holiday shopping season" and as it became clear that they were not going to hit that targeted timeline (for a myriad of reasons, least of which are the potential complexities that are a software company getting into hardware design, manufacturing and distro), they pressed Pause, choosing to take their lumps (with their loyal user base) and remain tight-lipped about the topic until they have better visibility into when they can deliver a hardware solution.
Or maybe as Apple's HomePod effort seem to be cooling (despite launching new colors for HomePod mini), Spotify is rolling the dice and believes this will be a non-issue in time. We shall see...
Or maybe as Apple's HomePod effort seem to be cooling (despite launching new colors for HomePod mini), Spotify is rolling the dice and believes this will be a non-issue in time. We shall see...
Perhaps you should schedule a visit to the Genius Bar.
I have five HPs and two HPMs. And have been speaking to them going back to when the first HP was released. All are superb music players.
I've yet to find a music genre that's not available on Apple Music. But then I live on planet Earth.
The percentage of users dumping Spotify due to lack of Home Pod support is a rounding error.
In fact, Spotify has increased subscribers.
Spotify: number of premium users worldwide 2024| Statista
Spotify has a growing number of subscribers. The amount of premiun users has nearly doubled since 2019.www.statista.com
This is totally a slow news day story
Interesting how more Premium subscribers actually result in less net income, isn't it?
Spotify income 2009-2024 | Statista
While Spotify is still making a remarkable amount of profit, the company reported a net loss in recent years.
www.statista.com
Most new users Spotify managed to get are most likely from new markets, i.e. non-OECD countries where HomePod isn't available. You also have no way of telling how many users actually stopped subscribing due to the lack of HomePod support just by looking at the bar chart. More importantly, we're already well into Q4.
If anything, Spotify has reasons to start focusing on its users rather than the pursuit of growth at all costs. It's only by focusing on its users (quality) that Spotify can justify fee increases that it will surely implement in the near future. People have to know that Spotify has not made a profit since its founding. While for Apple and Google, this kind of sustained loss is next to nothing, for Spotify the forecasted slow growth could spell financial trouble because Premium constitutes the bulk of its revenue. If Ek thinks like you do, that HomePod owners are inconsequential, he's got another thing coming.
Notice how Apple Music, YouTube Premium, and Amazon Music can all be bundled. Apple Music is part of Apple One, YouTube offers more than music, and Amazon has Amazon Prime. Spotify doesn't have this kind of advantage and could see gradual "defections" when services offered by its rivals start to mature.
Please tell me how to disable all of the UI bloat and anti-friendly UX Spotify has added over the years!
I recently cancelled, because I was so sick of podcasts being shoved down my throat and the poor UX of the artist page redesign. I've always been frustrated that they removed CMD/CTRL + F from artist pages a few years ago, but the move (at least on desktop) to remove all songs from showing was the final nail in the coffin. I believe Apple Music is similar in showing the top 10-ish songs from a given artist, but they at least provide a "show all" link versus having to click album by album.
The other super frustrating thing to me is how Spotify believes they are infallible in knowing what I want. I listened to a white noise "podcast" a single time to drown out background noise; from that one listen, it has become the #1 highest priority piece of content and is recommended at the very, very top of both mobile and desktop UI. I never went back to it, and I've played multiple albums front to back since I listened to that "episode" and nothing can unseat it from that spot. I guess it's because that UI slot is deemed a podcast slot, but that's even more frustrating because in all of the years I've had this account, I've listened to ~3 episodes of Lore, ~5 episodes of a YouTube channel's podcast, and that 1 episode of a white noise podcast. Contrast that to the hundreds of albums I've listened to front to back or even just the few I've had on non-stop repeat this year, and I still have podcasts being recommended to me and thrown in my face. Why? I have absolutely no idea, and there's no quick and dirty way for me to say "I do not ever want this piece of content recommended to me." You may say, "but thunder, you can!", and you're right you can do that with artists - but only artist and only in the iOS app, because the Windows app on Spotify doesn't have the "don't play this artist" option. Great UI, right?
Plus, that's not even getting to the fact that when I open the app, I'm recommended 1 podcast, 1 album I have enjoyed, a bunch of Spotify recommended playlists they made "just for me", and then a whole row of podcasts. I have to scroll an entire screen just to see music I've recently played. I truly get the feeling either their UX designers are paid by the number of rows they add to the homescreen, or they've fired them all and let the backend engineers moonlight as UX experts.
I'm not sure if Apple Music is the best alternative for me, but I figured I would give it a shot before trying some of the other available options since there was a free month; so far, I've been less frustrated with its UX, but it may be because I am that frustrated with Spotify. I figure the only other options are Tidal, Pandora if they still offer the play any song package, and Amazon's service, because I have a feeling YouTube Music won't be much better in the UX realm than Spotify based on their other service's UX lately.
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I’m not sure how this is a main page article. It seems more aimed at getting people to make the same oddly ignorant joke (what all small amount of them) and then piling in anyone that diverges from their point of view on what a good product is (how dare you not acknowledge my taste in streaming service. WITNESS ME!).
Yeah okay. Comments. Pish.
Yeah okay. Comments. Pish.
Billionaires' games. If Spotify wants to become the premier streaming music service then they'd want to provide the best experience on all platforms, not just their own. Instead, they are playing games to stroke the egos of their billionaire masters. Pathetic. Of course they are not alone in playing these games. It's endemic.
Well, all 40 HomePod users cancelled their Spotify subscriptions. This is a huge blow to the streaming service.
UPDATE #1: Spotify only streams commercial garbage
UPDATE #2: The HomePod is garbage, ULTIMATE EARS WONDERBOOM sounds better and is untethered…you know…it has a lithium ion battery as opposed to that ugly wire that APPLE keeps removing from the HomePod marketing promos. Connect your phone to a WONDERBOOM via Bluetooth and voila! You have a smart speaker. Class is dismissed.
This article is nothing but a win-win for everyone! ?
UPDATE #2: The HomePod is garbage, ULTIMATE EARS WONDERBOOM sounds better and is untethered…you know…it has a lithium ion battery as opposed to that ugly wire that APPLE keeps removing from the HomePod marketing promos. Connect your phone to a WONDERBOOM via Bluetooth and voila! You have a smart speaker. Class is dismissed.
This article is nothing but a win-win for everyone! ?
Yeah I was wondering that. I love Spotify. And don’t really care how much support they offer the HomePod.
hahaha. Spotify is king when it comes to music services.