Spotify—one of Apple's main rivals in both the latter's services strategy and in antitrust investigations—has released a new version of its iPhone app that supports home screen widgets, one of the flagship features of iOS 14.
Last month's release of iOS 14 brought home screen widgets—previously only the domain of iPads and Android phones—to iPhones. As we noted in our iOS 14 review, the value of the feature depends entirely on strong adoption and clever uses by third-party app developers.
Releases of widget-supporting apps from developers have been slow. Part of that was because Apple launched iOS 14 with less notice to developers than usual, meaning many were racing to play catch-up. But even now, a month later, the roster of widget-supporting apps has only grown a little.
Its frustraring because the ps4 version, smart tv version, iphone version, web version, desktop version all work great, its only the android app that sucks. I have faced all the issues you mention on your posts. I dont know why spotify has not fixed this yet. Maybe you guys should hire better developers.
Spotify is one of the most high-profile apps on the App Store, and it finally made the jump with version 8.5.80 of its iOS app. https://pibbypv.weebly.com/blog/spotify-download-cydia-ios-9. Unfortunately, the new widget isn't all that powerful or useful. It essentially does the exact same thing the Music widget does: it shows a list of recently played songs or playlists that you can tap into from the home screen. Advertisement
Tapping an entry doesn't just take you to the song in the app—it starts playing it right away, saving you an extra tap. Many users will wish they could customize what appears in the list or that they could control playback, as they currently can in the Android widget. As the setup stands now, the widget offers no customization options at all.
Some app developers (like Spark) have found creative ways to use the somewhat limited iOS widgets API (WidgetKit) to offer multiple, flexible uses of that precious home screen real estate. But users have said a lot of widgets just aren't that useful at the moment.
Those same users might wonder why we're not seeing essentially fully working slices of apps appearing on the home screen. Apple is likely to expand what developers can do with WidgetKit in future software releases, but there will always be some big limitations because of an emphasis on maintaining battery life.
Lots of interactivity and live data from multiple apps on the home screen could have a negative impact there—that's probably why Apple and many devs have generally been conservative in terms of making widgets ultra-powerful.
By contrast, the Android Spotify widget offers playback control. But Spotify actually removed that comparatively powerful widget in August of last year, only to reintroduce an improved version of it shortly afterward when users complained. The brief removal led to a plethora of user-made widgets to replace the lost functionality.
But at least Spotify is supporting widgets on iPhones at all—that wasn't a foregone conclusion.
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Two weeks ago, a happy-go-lucky troupe of ragtag recording artists (collective net worth: over $2,000,000,000) stood shoulder to shoulder on a stage and asked for your money. In return they would give you 'TIDAL,' a streaming music website and app that costs too much. I gave it a try. You should not.
Somehow, people already hate Tidal, a company that's barely had a chance to exist but has already alienated much of its market:
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tidal app is ugly pic.twitter.com/SMkuxv5enN
— eich (@eihyke) April 8, 2015
if tidal wasn't so ugly I would like it
— frank (@franktbh) April 4, 2015
I hate tidal and I refuse to get it. Fuck that shit
— #BBHMM (@CandianNavy) April 6, 2015
lmfao tidal fucking sucks pic.twitter.com/irH98NooPA
— #BLACKLIVESMATTER (@Valinciaa) April 1, 2015
For the record, Tidal sucks. Don't download it.
Spotify Phone App Sucks Iphone— Riley West (@RecklessWest21) April 7, 2015![]() ![]()
Tidal looks so ugly
— Rihanna Updates (@iStanForRihanna) April 6, 2015
How do you download spotify on a chrome book. hey @rihanna tidal sucks put ur new music back on spotify pls
— C (@christianfailla) April 9, 2015
And so on.
The quick pitch for Tidal's HiFi subscription is that it costs more than Spotify[1] so that artists can get a bigger slice of the pie. By using Tidal you are 'supporting the artists' and 'giving back to Madonna.' Paying more for higher quality is the selling point of Tidal—it's the only point of Tidal. So it had better work!
Here is the first thing you see when you log into your Tidal account:
To someone like myself, who cares deeply about his friends, this is a profoundly troubling question. Can I believe that they are not listening to their Rihanna tracks on their iPhone earbuds in premium lossless audio? Do I therefore have an ethical obligation to shill for Tidal? If my friend needs help, should I not help him?
I decline. This is what shows up next: a list of bands and people who might be among my favorites.
Why is Robinson Cano, second baseman for the Seattle Mariners, one of the first faces I see on one of the first screens of Tidal? I didn't click on Robinson Cano's face. I hadn't heard of anyone else except The Mountain Goats and Rihanna, so I picked those two. If I were really being honest with Jay Z and Madonna I would have to admit that I don't even like The Mountain Goats, but having only one favorite seemed sad.
I listened to my favorite song, 'Cheers (Drink To That)' by Rihanna. Tidal says its music sounds better than that of Spotify or Rdio because it uses 'lossless' file encoding, which means the songs aren't compressed before being streamed from a remote server to your laptop or phone. On paper, this means that lossless music will sound 'like the producers wanted' and give you 'the authentic Jack White experience.' On my laptop's speakers I could not tell the difference between Rihanna belting YEAH-HEE-YA, YEAH-HEE-YA, YEAH-HEE-YA! on Tidal versus Rihanna belting YEAH-HEE-YA, YEAH-HEE-YA, YEAH-HEE-YA! on Rdio.
https://cleversharp276.weebly.com/anyconnect-macosx-i386-41-02011-k9-dmg.html. I tried a few other songs, and at times I thought maybe the Tidal versions sounded better, but that could just be due to me wanting the Tidal versions to sound better because I want to be someone who appreciates 'how music is supposed to sound.'
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Tidal's search bar is annoying. When I search for 'kanye ' in Rdio I get a bunch of suggested songs and albums by that guy. But in Tidal, I get a bunch of confusing nonsense:
On the other hand, Tidal offered me this handy link to a web store that sells unwanted Kanye West merch from 2008:
Every time I open Tidal I see this same list of things I'm not interested in instead of something worthwhile, like 'new releases,' or songs by Rihanna and my other favorite band, The Mountain Goats, or people who I recognize and am familiar with because of their music and not their lifetime .310 batting averages.
Why are album titles and playlist descriptions frequently truncated ('After The Blues: Tribute to Jaso.')?
Why did the volume go down to a whisper on the Tidal iPhone app, causing me to no longer be able to really hear 'Cheers (Drink To That)' by Rihanna on my phone?
Mac manual cd relase. Why do songs on Tidal sometimes just not play at all? What if I were throwing a party and wanted to listen to the 'Beyond Bluegrass: A New Wester.' playlist, but the music won't play, and all of the new friends I've made with the promise of true, high-quality sound as it was meant to be heard walk out on me?
Why would anyone pay $20 per month to beta test Jay Z's Super Sweet Celeb Streaming Service when Rdio and Spotify don't have any of these problems and are cheaper? Tidal costs too much: Even the free trial I received felt like a ripoff.
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[1] Mac download minecraft 1.7.10. Tidal and Spotify both offer subscription service on two tiers. Spotify's—'Free' and 'Premium'—cost $0 per month and $9.99 per month, respectively. Tidal's—'Premium' and 'HiFi'—run $9.99 per month and $19.99 per month. Premium Tidal is basically equivalent to Premium Spotify, in that it offers 'standard' sound quality, and no ads. There is no free version of Tidal.
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