Jan 28, 2019 Spotify is an ear- and eye-catching way to enjoy an Editors' Choice pick for streaming music players on your iPad. The app boasts collaborative playlists, commercial-free listening with premium. Spotify aims to make your listening experience more enjoyable on a tablet with the music-streaming service's first iPad app, which includes enhanced social functions and a view in Cover Flow style.
Similarly, while Spotify only recently released an Apple TV app last fall — the same point at which it added Siri support to its apps, competing music services have been available on tvOS for. Spotify through sonos app. The latest update for the Spotify app on the iPad brings long-awaited support for multitasking features, including Split View (which Apple debuted in 2015) and Slide Over modes. You no longer have.
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Spotify has finally released its long awaited iPad app today. No more suffering through using 2x mode! Thanks to its growing marketshare in the US and vast library of over 18 million songs, Spotify is the largest subscription based music streaming service on earth, serving over 13 million users in 14 countries and growing, which is expected to earn upwards of $900 million in revenue in 2012.
Navigation in the iPad version of Spotify uses a Twitter-like layout with a left nav of tabs and sliding vertical decks of information. The main tabs are Search, What’s New, Inbox (which I never use), Playlists, and People. The Spotify iPad app features full artist bios, search as you type, a mini-playback bar, a full screen playback screen, crossfade support and more.
Playlists are displayed using a 4 grid box of album covers which is visually nice to look at. While listening to any song you can jump to the artist detail page to see related artists, top hits and read their full bio. The app layout adjusts smoothly to support both landscape and portrait views as you rotate your iPad. Overall, the app is designed to make it easier to discover new artists and dig around the vast library of songs.
What’s new in the Spotify iPad app?
1) Predictive Search shows your results as you type. This is a unique feature so far to the iPad app, since it is missing from the Spotify iPhone app. Search results include a “Best Match”, Artists, Albums, Playlists, and an infinite dynamically loading as you scroll list of Tracks.
2) Full Screen now playing window with large buttons, album cover and swipable interface to skip back and forward to the surrounding tracks. From this playback screen, tap the users icon on the bottom to jump to the full artist bio and listing page.
3) Artist Bio and Track Listings featuring a two pane layout that contain a short bio, related artists, and Top Hits along with all albums on the left. On the right side you can read the full biography of the artist and swipe thorugh a gallery of photography on the band. The bios contain links to other musicians in Spotify which make exploring more interesting.
4) AirPlay on the iPad along with Mirroring displays now lets you both listen to and watch your Spotify iPad content on your Apple TV for a fully immersive experience.
5) A full featured What’s New area resembles the desktop Spotify app and includes Recommended Albums, Trending Playlists, Top Tracks (among friends and near you), and Newly Released albums and songs.
6) Better playlist management and creation. Although not perfect, the iPad app allows ease of adding various tracks to a playlist. Tap and hold on any track to have the info buttons slide up, including a + button for adding a track to any playlist.
7) The ability to Star a song, add to a playlist and share it via Facebook or Twitter are available on both the full screen playback screen as well as the mini playback bar on the bottom of the screen. To get this feature just tap once on the small album cover to display the menu which took me some time to discover at first.
What’s Missing and or requests for future updates:
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– Spotify Apps which are available on the desktop version of Spotify are not supported on the iPad version of the app yet. These apps are great for discovering new music, amongst other things.
– There is no way to jump from a currently playing song to the album the song is from. This feature is really helpful on the iPhone for quickly browsing through songs in an album, but is missing on the iPad. Tapping on the Artist head icon only takes you to the top level artist page, which is nice, but you will now have to swipe up and down to look for the currently playing album manually which is very tedious.
– No on-screen volume control is provided in the Spotify iPad app. This means you’ll have to use the physical buttons on the iPad to adjust volume settings, which can be tedious depending on your listening situation.
– Being able to search inside a playlist is a feature which would help a ton, especially for really large playlists. This feature would also be good to have in the desktop app.
– Navigating back and forth across vertical panes in the app is not intuitive and overwhelming. Once you’ve gone a few levels deep, you can double tap any tab icon to get back to the main pane. At one point after navigating 12 panes deep, the Spotify app crashed on me, which is not surprising considering how much memory each window sucks up.
– In full screen mode the album cover art is not using HD quality images, which is only apparant on the new iPad’s retina display.
– No Radio feature is provided to iPad users. Being able to quickly play randomly generated songs (think Pandora) is a convenient and frequently used feature offered in most music streaming services, but is only available on the desktop for Spotify.
– Spotify still has no way of browsing songs and artists by genre nor top music charts. This is a useful feature seen in competing services such as Rdio and MOG.
– One final personal request, would be to allow users to customize the tabs on the left nav. I for one would love to be able to access the Starred playlist as a tab item, as well as being able to hide or remove the Inbox icon.
Overall
The Spotify iPad app works amazingly fast and is a joy to use on the iPad 3. Barring a few missing features, which will hopefully be added in future updates, this tablet version of the Spotify app was well worth the super long wait and will help to further justify the $10/month price tag of the service.
The Spotify iPad app works amazingly fast and is a joy to use on the iPad 3. Barring a few missing features, which will hopefully be added in future updates, this tablet version of the Spotify app was well worth the super long wait and will help to further justify the $10/month price tag of the service.
Here is a video demo of the Spotify app on the iPad
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Yesterday, we covered the launch of Spotify's iPad app. At first I was underwhelmed. Apps like Songkick were missing, for example. But as I played with the app last night, I became more and more impressed, ordered a Jawbone JAMBOX wireless speaker and am moving most of my listening to this combination. This guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk ofEvolver.fm offers an indepth look ito what makes the new Spotify iPad app so special. – Bruce Houghton
When we finally saw Spotify’s new iPad app in the company’s New York City offices this week, we breathed a sigh of relief on behalf of all the breathless Spotify fans who have been demanding its release.
A web search for “iPad Spotify app” on the eve of the announcement revealed millions of matches, including at least one for a Facebook group dedicated to pressuring Spotify into releasing a native iPad app. Some even called for a boycott of the service, making it clear that this relatively young company, whose goal is to become “the OS of music,” is already inspiring Apple-like adoration — and the accompanying petulant demands — from the public at large.
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From what we saw, we don’t imagine they will be disappointed when they download this thing starting today. Spotify++ for mac. Spotify’s new iPad app doesn’t include any whiz-bang features, such as navigating music in a 3D map, running third-party apps, or anything like that. But it’s well-suited to the iPad’s large screen and Retina display, taking advantage of the extra space, deeper color palate, and higher resolution without departing so far as to confuse or alienate users.
The main thing to understand about Spotify for iPad is the way it lets you venture “down the rabbit hole” of music, as Spotify director of product Charlie Hellman described it to Evolver.fm. By that, he means you can follow your curiosity from an artist you already know, to their discography, to another album, to a similar artist, to their bass player’s side project, using one of the links in the biographies from the All Music Guide.
Because you can always retrace your steps by swiping from left to right, you can explore as much as you want without getting lost. Apparently, you can go hundreds of steps deep in this fashion and still swipe your way back, though we didn’t have time to test that (understandably, we think).
This app does a lot, but it doesn’t rub the extra features in your face. The design is fairly clean (screenshot gallery below). Playlists can be grouped neatly into folders that are reflected on Spotify’s other apps — a feature we hadn’t noticed there yet. In addition, a tap-and-hold feature bring up additional options such as the ability to add something to a playlist or star it, and a new search autofill feature lets you find artists by typing in the first few letters. You can hunt down songs, albums, and playlists from the same box.
We also appreciated the way messages from friends are now threaded, so that you can see your history of recommendations from each Spotify friend (in Spotify’s seldom-mentioned internal social network), rather than all of them being jumbled together in a single chronological list.
The iPad version also includes the What’s New view from the desktop version, which is as good a place to start your session as any. It displays not only new releases, but whatever songs and playlists are trending among your Spotify friends.
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However, you won’t find any third-party Spotify apps within this app. If you want to use third-party Spotify apps on the iPad, you’ll need to wait for the developers to build standalone apps using its libspotify technology. Hellman said Spotify is not averse to adding apps to its iPad app in the future, assuming Apple doesn’t consider that to be an “app store” within Apple’s app store, or raise some other objection.
Overall, he said, the new Spotify app is designed to replace your home stereo system with a much better interface that’s equally suited to the coffee table or couch plus iPad stands of both orientations. The app works equally well in landscape and portrait mode.
Album covers are presented at the highest resolution to date within Spotify (500×500 pixels), and by downloading songs at “Extreme” quality (320 Kbps) and streaming it to a stereo using the included AirPlay feature, you can achieve the best-sounding digital music available on mainstream digital music services.
This AirPlay integration lets you read up on bands while enjoying their music on the best speakers in your house, wirelessly. Or, using the iPad’s native AirPort feature, you could also mirror everything mentioned above to your television via Apple TV.
Finally, Spotify users will be pleased to know, this new iPad app is Spotify’s first to feature gapless playback and crossfading, just like on the desktop client. However, as with Spotify’s other non-desktop apps, you’ll need a premium account to use this app — unless you have yet to try the 30-day free trial, in which case you can use it with that. (As noted early in the Spotify saga, withholding the mobile version until a user pays is key to the company’s strategy.)
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Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk ofEvolver.fm.