Spotify places the blame on Apple.
  • FiveMacs@lemmy.caEnglish
    81·
    2 months ago

    Spotify issue

    Your device’s volume buttons should control the device volume, NOT the application. Spotify is stealing device control and then restricting it.

    • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      2 months ago

      Yeah, that it exactly what is happening, but it’s not Spotify’s fault. What spotify and other music apps want is the default behavior of Apple’s music services. The device has a strangle hold on the volume and no API allowing good software sound control. Spotify can’t force the device to do something that Apple forbids in order to force project their own music service onto users.

      Meanwhile, in the other OS, we already have a desktop like sound mixer including multiple output control and per app control. iOS is a worse bad joke every day. Second only to Windows.

  • cannedtuna@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    When an iPhone user presses their physical volume rocker, Spotify will display a notification that says “Want to change the volume?”

    So it sees the button press but won’t change the volume? That seems really dumb.

    • WolfLinkEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      Spotify blames the change on Apple, saying the company won’t give it access to the same technology that lets Apple Music play on third-party devices. As a result, controlling volume with the iPhone’s physical toggle has “become unstable” for connected devices, causing volume to spike during playback and other bugs. Spotify says the change will result in “persistent, high-quality” volume control. The Sonos app has also stoppedletting iPhone users change the volume of their devices using physical buttons for similar reasons.

      • mommykink@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        2 months ago

        Apple runs their own music streaming services, too, no? They obviously can’t come right out and ban a service that so many people love, the backlash would be insane, but they can slowly, very quietly, make it difficult for competitors to deliver good products to the market (the same market they control).

        • reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          It should work the same way Apple Music and other apps work. The volume buttons are for system volume. Not app-specific volume.

        • FiveMacs@lemmy.caEnglish
          31·
          2 months ago

          I still blame Spotify. The amount of weird buggy shit that program does, never actually syncs between devices, hiding songs from being play yet they still play…many many many more bullshit problems all directly Spotify’s fault and has been for years and years . Spotify is trash

      • whereisk@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        I believe Spotify here, from personal experience, the os suddenly decides to spike the keyboard clicking sounds to maximum volume out of the blue without playing any other audio at the time.