This Spotify experiment is done for - but you may not miss it

Spotify is shutting down Spotify Stations, its light-weight music streaming app, on May 16, in line with emails being despatched out to customers.

The e mail is being shared throughout Twitter which explains each the standalone app and web-primarily based participant will not perform. In truth, Spotify isn’t even ready till May 16 to start shutting down Stations because the app has already been delisted from the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store.

Spotify’s e mail goes on to make clear that the music stations will migrate over to the principle app and recommends you transfer your favorites over.

Finished experiment

We reached out to Spotify to ask why it was discontinuing Stations. Simply put, it was an “experiment” that ran its course. A Spotify spokesperson instructed SociallyKeeda in an announcement, “At Spotify, we routinely conduct a number of experiments to create better listening experiences for our users. Some of those tests end up paving the way for our broader user experience and others serve only as an important learning. Our Spotify Stations Beta was one of those tests.”

Spotify Stations first launched in January 2018 and it was just about the service’s model of Pandora. It had all kinds of stations primarily based on totally different genres, artists, or moods. You had virtually no management over what you had been listening to apart from fundamental curation options like favoriting songs.

The response from Spotify customers has been overwhelmingly unfavorable but resigned. Commenters within the Spotify subreddit are dissatisfied Stations is going away as a result of they loved the stripped-down consumer interface. The UI took you straight to the music with out having to navigate by menus. Some stated it was a good way to seek out new music whereas others admitted it was a bit of wonky. The audio high quality was dangerous and you couldn’t add a track to playlists on the bottom app.

Consolidating apps

With the discontinuation of Spotify Stations, there seems to be the beginning of a brand new pattern amongst tech giants to consolidate their providers underneath one roof fairly than having a bunch of various apps. Spotify has already done one thing comparable with the combination of its Greenroom function into its primary app, now rebranded as Spotify Live.

YouTube is doing one thing comparable by eliminating its light-weight YouTube Go app. It was deemed as “unnecessary” and inspired outdated customers to get the principle app. It’ll be attention-grabbing to see if different providers observe the identical path. It can be nice to have only one light-weight app with a ton of options as an alternative of getting a number of.