I had been a Spotify Premium customer for several years. I had been waiting for an app for the AW but prior to the AW 3, I always had my phone with me so the lack of a Spotify AW app was not a big problem.
Over the past many months, many people in their forums have asked. The only response was “not at this time”. There was no indication of any kind of intent. Some thought that Apple was preventing them from issuing an app, but to me that did not seem likely. Remember all the trouble Microsoft got into when they bundled their browser. They did not prevent other browsers from being used, but made it inconvenient to change default browsers. So if Apple had prevented Spotify from fielding an app, that would have been much more egregious. And even if that were the case, Spotify would have likely made their attempt and legal dispute public.
So to me, the logical conclusion was Spotify has not been interested in an AW app.
Although I have been a long-time user of multiple Apple products, I did not initially jump into Apple Music just because it was Apple. But now there was a reason and I want to explain the process I used and my opinion.
I signed up for the 3 month trial subscription with Apple Music and moved all my playlists from Spotify to Apple Music using an iPhone app, SongShift. The free version will move up to 100 songs per playlist. The process went smoothly. There were a few songs that did not move, but SongShift identified them. In all cases, I browsed in iTunes and found the songs and put them in the playlist. I don’t know why the few songs did not transfer automatically. It might have been a specific release in Spotify was not in Apple Music, or possibly there was a different spelling or abbreviation in the title or artist or album. But in any event it wasn’t a big deal.
Everything works fine in the iPhone and AW. The other way I used Spotify was to play songs from my MacBook to my home sound system wirelessly using the Gramofon device. I could find nothing that indicated Gramofon could be configured to work with iTunes so I got an AirPort Express, and it works great.
This is subjective but I prefer the iTunes and iPhone interfaces over Spotify. There are laid out with more room and easier to see from a distance.
I have already cancelled Spotify Premium and will get the annual Apple Music plan when the trial period is up. Paid that way, Apple Music is cheaper than Spotify.
By the way, I participated in the Spotify Community Forums and was involved in questioning the lack of a Spotify AW app. All ok until I posted the above and it was promptly deleted. Maybe I should have only posted my questions and not my actions, but whatever. I did say that I had nothing against Spotify, but their interests and mine diverged so I took action.
Anyway, I hope this is useful, and I don’t expect it will be deleted here. LOL
Over the past many months, many people in their forums have asked. The only response was “not at this time”. There was no indication of any kind of intent. Some thought that Apple was preventing them from issuing an app, but to me that did not seem likely. Remember all the trouble Microsoft got into when they bundled their browser. They did not prevent other browsers from being used, but made it inconvenient to change default browsers. So if Apple had prevented Spotify from fielding an app, that would have been much more egregious. And even if that were the case, Spotify would have likely made their attempt and legal dispute public.
So to me, the logical conclusion was Spotify has not been interested in an AW app.
Although I have been a long-time user of multiple Apple products, I did not initially jump into Apple Music just because it was Apple. But now there was a reason and I want to explain the process I used and my opinion.
I signed up for the 3 month trial subscription with Apple Music and moved all my playlists from Spotify to Apple Music using an iPhone app, SongShift. The free version will move up to 100 songs per playlist. The process went smoothly. There were a few songs that did not move, but SongShift identified them. In all cases, I browsed in iTunes and found the songs and put them in the playlist. I don’t know why the few songs did not transfer automatically. It might have been a specific release in Spotify was not in Apple Music, or possibly there was a different spelling or abbreviation in the title or artist or album. But in any event it wasn’t a big deal.
Everything works fine in the iPhone and AW. The other way I used Spotify was to play songs from my MacBook to my home sound system wirelessly using the Gramofon device. I could find nothing that indicated Gramofon could be configured to work with iTunes so I got an AirPort Express, and it works great.
This is subjective but I prefer the iTunes and iPhone interfaces over Spotify. There are laid out with more room and easier to see from a distance.
I have already cancelled Spotify Premium and will get the annual Apple Music plan when the trial period is up. Paid that way, Apple Music is cheaper than Spotify.
By the way, I participated in the Spotify Community Forums and was involved in questioning the lack of a Spotify AW app. All ok until I posted the above and it was promptly deleted. Maybe I should have only posted my questions and not my actions, but whatever. I did say that I had nothing against Spotify, but their interests and mine diverged so I took action.
Anyway, I hope this is useful, and I don’t expect it will be deleted here. LOL
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