Spotify Stations, the streaming service’s light-weight listening app providing easy accessibility to curated playlists, is shutting down on Could 16. The corporate advised Avisionews that the app and internet participant will not be accessible after this date. The Stations app was initially designed for individuals who desire a extra radio-like expertise, relatively than having to hunt out music or customise their very own playlists. Spotify Stations first launched in Australia in 2018 and later rolled out in the US in 2019.
“At Spotify, we routinely conduct a lot of experiments to create higher listening experiences for our customers,” a spokesperson for Spotify mentioned in a press release to Avisionews. “A few of these checks find yourself paving the best way for our broader consumer expertise and others serve solely as an essential studying. Our Spotify Stations Beta was a kind of checks. We might be sunsetting the present function, however customers will have the ability to simply switch their favourite stations and luxuriate in an identical radio expertise immediately throughout the Spotify app.”
Spotify hasn’t elaborated on the explanation behind its choice to close down Stations, however notes that customers can transfer all of their favourite stations to the primary Spotify app to proceed listening to them. The corporate says that whereas it doesn’t take sunsetting companies calmly, Spotify Radio offers an identical listening expertise to Stations so listeners can use that as a substitute. Spotify Radio is a function in the primary app that creates a playlist primarily based on any music, album, playlist or artist you choose.
Spotify Stations has been thought-about an experiment by Spotify, and by some others, a Pandora copycat on account of its assist for fast music playback at launch. Spotify Stations is interesting to those that choose a less complicated consumer interface, as Spotify’s flagship app’s look-and-feel isn’t one thing that everybody likes. The app supplied a minimalist listening expertise that appears to have appealed to some customers.
As of Friday morning, the Stations app has disappeared from each the iOS App Retailer and the Google Play Retailer, however the app itself appears to be useful in the meanwhile to permit present customers to maneuver their stations to the primary app.
The information comes as Spotify has been making some modifications to its apps. Final month, Spotify introduced it’ll combine the stay audio capabilities from its companion app, Spotify Greenroom, inside the primary Spotify streaming app. Greenroom may even rebrand as “Spotify Dwell” as a part of these modifications. At launch, Spotify’s predominant app will solely function stay content material from choose authentic programming, whereas the standalone Spotify Dwell app will proceed to permit impartial creators to go stay.
