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Spotify ... when???

mjt2810

mjt2810

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Jun 17, 2009
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Ok, so it's been nearly a week since the announcement it was approved and that it would be on the App Store very soon (or soon) ... but when exactly?

What is the big delay? When has this sort of delay between approval and availability happened before?

All seems a bit odd to me .... or, am I just impatient and waiting to get my hands on it with my premium account!!
 
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The developer can set a release date once approved. Spotify is probably waiting for some big announcement or event to make the app available (US availability maybe?)
 
Some speculation around that its going to be announced/released at apples big event coming up (next week I think).
 
From @spotify at 8:29 AM Sep 1st:

@danwtmoon No date to share yet unfortunately but it shouldn't be weeks. Just a little more patience, it will be worth it. :)
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Spotify are working on their 'back end' servers (I presume to ensure demand can be coped with) before releasing it into the App Store.

According to one of their guys who posted elsewhere just after the announcement that the App had been approved.

Don't have a link I'm afraid - just going from memory.
 
I have never seen an app that has taken this long to show up on the app store after it got approved. Which leads me to believe that we wont see it in the app store. I think that Apple is just trying to buy time and trying to find a way that it some how is a breach of the Developer contract.

For me its very simple, if it dosnt come on the app store, I wont use a iPhone anymore and will go out and get an Android device. Spotify is an amazing service and its well worth the £10 P/M.
 
Nicolasdec said:
I have never seen an app that has taken this long to show up on the app store after it got approved. Which leads me to believe that we wont see it in the app store. I think that Apple is just trying to buy time and trying to find a way that it some how is a breach of the Developer contract.

For me its very simple, if it dosnt come on the app store, I wont use a iPhone anymore and will go out and get an Android device. Spotify is an amazing service and its well worth the £10 P/M.
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As far as I know, when an app is approved its up to the developer to set a release date. All the things I've read around the net points to Spotify sorting out things their end such as servers. Theres also a fair few rumours about it being announced at apples big music related event on Wednesday. Or if you're a jailbreaker, just use Spot for now!
 
Nicolasdec said:
I have never seen an app that has taken this long to show up on the app store after it got approved. Which leads me to believe that we wont see it in the app store. I think that Apple is just trying to buy time and trying to find a way that it some how is a breach of the Developer contract.

For me its very simple, if it dosnt come on the app store, I wont use a iPhone anymore and will go out and get an Android device. Spotify is an amazing service and its well worth the £10 P/M.
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The app has been approved by Apple. But the developers can, and apparently the Spotify developers did, delay it's release.
 
It's here and is working well on my iPhone yaaaaay.

I love the offline mode - it will make it worthwhile and save buying albums. The only thing is it could do with a browser in it, so I could surf the web whilst listening.
 
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Anyone thinking apple might do a similar service with iTunes? Or should I just sign up to spotify now?
 
Macjames said:
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Anyone thinking apple might do a similar service with iTunes? Or should I just sign up to spotify now?
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no, yes
 
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Yeah thought so, just signed up. Looking forward to using it.
 
Macjames said:
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Yeah thought so, just signed up. Looking forward to using it.
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The advantage is you can cancel whenever you want very easily - so try it for a month. (That's my plan anyway).
 
It'd be nice if I could choose a Genre to listen to or something non-specific. I don't always have an artist or album in mind when I want to listen to something.
 
Kahnyl said:
It'd be nice if I could choose a Genre to listen to or something non-specific. I don't always have an artist or album in mind when I want to listen to something.
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You can on the desktop app, I haven't tried the iPhone app as I am not a premium subscriber, but on your mac for example type in genre:whateveryouwant in the search, it also works for year or a specific record label just type in label:universal etc.

For anyone that has the app can you actually do anything else while listening yo the music, like use Safari, play games, check scores or news app etc as without this I don't think I will bother subscribing yet.
 
gerdav said:
You can on the desktop app, I haven't tried the iPhone app as I am not a premium subscriber, but on your mac for example type in genre:whateveryouwant in the search, it also works for year or a specific record label just type in label:universal etc.

For anyone that has the app can you actually do anything else while listening yo the music, like use Safari, play games, check scores or news app etc as without this I don't think I will bother subscribing yet.
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Good tip! From the Spotify faq

Yes, you can search for genres by writing genre: followed by the genre you want to find, like genre:Trip-hop. You can do the same thing with release years for albums by writing year: and the year you want. You can even specify a range, like year:1979-1982. Other searches to play with are artist:, album: and track:. There are some more examples in this blog post.
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Just tested in the tracks search and it works!
 
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