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watchOS 9 Breaks Spotify Streaming, Apple Watch Users Urged Not to Update
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My iTunes/Apple Music works fine so I would say Apple did a great job testing.
JBL too was also lazy to update their headphone app for iOS 16. Since iOS 16 came out it wouldn’t detect my headphones. It was only after multiple complaints that they acknowledged the issue and finally released an update today to work with iOS 16.
Oh, you really should consider switching, I find the search in Apple Music itself to be a bit luckstar…but the good news is Apple Music ties into iTunes so it there’s an album you search for in iTunes that is also on Apple Music there is a link at the top to take you straight to Apple Music to add/stream/download it, it’s pretty nifty
I just see the Wall-E dystopian monolith-corpo before me when you say that..
For myself, I would, but we're on a family plan. Others cannot find the same music in AM.
Do you know of any? It looks to me like none of them pay much to most artists. Currently the only way to make any money streaming is to sustain millions of streams per month, something very few can achieve.
Agreed. I'd be willing to bet that Spotify had access to betas to correct any issues, but missed the mark.
I read it as there being an issue with the API or whatever provided by Apple and it seems to be fixed on the latest beta since the Spotify app is working again
Apple Music has a family plan too(and Apple One too) I was on the solo plan but I wanted to buy my mom a HomePod mini for Christmas last year so I switched to the family plan and added her and my dad now she can play any song she wants from her HomePod mini.
I’d argue that it’s up to the OS developer to maintain compatibility, but that has never been Apple’s way.
I know, but what I'm saying is that others on the family plan cannot find the music they have in Spotify on Apple Music. It's a non-starter.
I don't agree. That's how we ended up with Windows XP and other legacy software staying in production so long. Developers need to own their own code.
This. Spotify's catalog is a bit better. Subjectively, I prefer the UI. This might be the nail though.
To test the software? If Spotify had issues with the beta, then report that to Spotify.
Hey Spotify, while you're working on fixing this how about you also get on implementing Airplay 2 support and lossless (both of which you've been promising for YEARS 
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The issue seems to be the API though, which comes from Apple
Ah that’s a shame, I’ve only had to buy the random album that wasn’t in Apple Music(mostly newer stuff I didn’t want to wait for) that stinks though =(
Maybe they can f*****g collaborate on some HomePod support during this time. We can peer back in time with James Webb, land rockets, create mind blowing artificial intelligence, but we can’t get Spotify on HomePod. K.
Like others said, it worked fine during the beta up until one of the last ones. Turnaround of feedback given from developers usually take longer than a couple months.
When has there been a .0 release without a single bug for any company, ever?
Also, how did Spotify not catch this in any of the betas?
Same reason as above.
We live in an imperfect world with imperfect people. Hence, bugs.
If you follow the link in the article, it takes you to a Spotify forum where someone writes that he's installed the WatchOS 9.1 beta and it seems to fix the issue.