Finally iOS 12 is here. Apple has promised to give us better Siri integration by allowing third party developer to use Siri Shortcuts. For you who just updated and want to have this, you have to search for “Shortcuts”, make sure that the developer is Apple and install manually on App Store. Unfortunately, Spotify has not updated to support Siri Shortcuts for now but I will share a workaround to use this. Siri Shortcuts is very powerful, you can customize any command you want (if the third-party apps support it), such as Google Maps, GIPHY, etc. For those coming from Android, it is very similar to IFTTT. However, for Apple users, this app may be confusing to use. I will do some introduction on how to use Siri Shortcuts in general.
How to use Siri Shortcuts : the Beginner Guide
About a week ago, Siri stopped providing me with voice directions while driving. I still get a little jingle when I need to make a change, but I much prefer Siri telling me what to do. The issue occurs through Bluetooth and AUX and only while I am streaming Spotify. She will provide. How To Use Siri Shortcut To Play Spotify Music. There is a Siri shortcut called “Spotify Siri” that can let you play Spotify music on your iOS device. So, if your device is not compatible with iOS 13, try it out. Make sure you have installed the Shortcuts app (free, requires iOS 12 or later) on your device. Then, tap on this link to add. Open the Shortcuts app, and run this Deezer shortcut. Then type the song name that you want to download. It will return several results, just select the one you want to download. Then it asks if you want to convert the audio format. After that, you can select a location to save this music file. You can pick a location in a cloud drive that is.
Open the Spotify app and search for the song you want to download. Tap on the little dots button “” next to the song name. Choose “Add to playlist” from the menu. Select “New Playlist” to create a new playlist, naming it whatever you want. Click on the “Download” button in the playlist to download the single song in the playlist. Then you can follow the steps below to add this shortcut to Siri, so you can use a Siri voice command to run this. Get this play Spotify Track shortcut by opening this link in Safari. Tap on the right top icon to get the Settings screen. From Settings, tap on Add to Siri.
For every command that you use, you have to see first by pressing the info button “( i )” and check the input and results. The input command need to be placed above this command. You can search for it also. If the input needed for that command is a text, you search for “text” and type inside it. If it is URL, you can search for “URLs” and type the URL. You might need to do trial and error to get into this. If you are lazy to do this, you can check on the “Gallery” button on bottom right screen and choose the preset that is available.
How to use Siri Shortcuts to play music with Spotify
To use this, you need to prepare some Spotify URL link of the playlist that you want to use for.
- Go to Spotify Apps
- Press the “Three-dots” button on top-right corner
- Choose “Share”
- Choose “Copy link”
I suggest you choose link of an album or playlist for this instead of individual song. After this go back to your Shortcuts apps and click on “Create Shortcut”
- Search for “Create from Menu” command
- Fill in the Prompt with any text that you like, and fill in the option that you have
- Search for “URL” command and paste the Playlist/Album link from Spotify (to move the order of the command, you can tap and hold and rearrange)
- Search for “Open URLs command” and put it below the “URL” command
- Try to click the “Play” button above and check if it is working correctly
Just a note, you have to arrange this sequentially. As shown in the picture, below the “Eminem” is the Spotify album link then open URL. You can continue adding this first. However, Apple limit that Shortcuts can only have “Play music” command from Apple Music apps only. So you still need to have 1 more click on “Shuffle Play” after you got into the Spotify apps.
Update #1 : You can make the “URL” and “Open URLs” command only, just to launch the album that you want. This way you only need to click the Play button on Spotify
Update #2 : I found a way to search & play music, here’s the Siri Shortcut for Spotify link
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What Spotify is demanding is something very different. After using the App Store for years to dramatically grow their business, Spotify seeks to keep all the benefits of the App Store ecosystem — including the substantial revenue that they draw from the App Store’s customers — without making any contributions to that marketplace. At the same time, they distribute the music you love while making ever-smaller contributions to the artists, musicians and songwriters who create it — even going so far as to take these creators to court.
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Let’s clear this one up right away. We’ve approved and distributed nearly 200 app updates on Spotify’s behalf, resulting in over 300 million downloaded copies of the Spotify app. The only time we have requested adjustments is when Spotify has tried to sidestep the same rules that every other app follows.
Spotify Siri Download Link Converter
We’ve worked with Spotify frequently to help them bring their service to more devices and platforms:
- When we reached out to Spotify about Siri and AirPlay 2 support on several occasions, they’ve told us they’re working on it, and we stand ready to help them where we can.
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Spotify is free to build apps for — and compete on — our products and platforms, and we hope they do.
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Spotify wants all the benefits of a free app without being free.
A full 84 percent of the apps in the App Store pay nothing to Apple when you download or use the app. That’s not discrimination, as Spotify claims; it’s by design:
- Apps that are free to you aren’t charged by Apple.
- Apps that earn revenue exclusively through advertising — like some of your favorite free games — aren’t charged by Apple.
- App business transactions where users sign up or purchase digital goods outside the app aren’t charged by Apple.
- Apps that sell physical goods — including ride-hailing and food delivery services, to name a few — aren’t charged by Apple.
The only contribution that Apple requires is for digital goods and services that are purchased inside the app using our secure in-app purchase system. As Spotify points out, that revenue share is 30 percent for the first year of an annual subscription — but they left out that it drops to 15 percent in the years after.
That’s not the only information Spotify left out about how their business works:
- The majority of customers use their free, ad-supported product, which makes no contribution to the App Store.
- A significant portion of Spotify’s customers come through partnerships with mobile carriers. This generates no App Store contribution, but requires Spotify to pay a similar distribution fee to retailers and carriers.
- Even now, only a tiny fraction of their subscriptions fall under Apple’s revenue-sharing model. Spotify is asking for that number to be zero.
Let’s be clear about what that means. Apple connects Spotify to our users. We provide the platform by which users download and update their app. We share critical software development tools to support Spotify’s app building. And we built a secure payment system — no small undertaking — which allows users to have faith in in-app transactions. Spotify is asking to keep all those benefits while also retaining 100 percent of the revenue.
Spotify wouldn’t be the business they are today without the App Store ecosystem, but now they’re leveraging their scale to avoid contributing to maintaining that ecosystem for the next generation of app entrepreneurs. We think that’s wrong.
What does that have to do with music? A lot.
We share Spotify’s love of music and their vision of sharing it with the world. Where we differ is how you achieve that goal.Underneath the rhetoric, Spotify’s aim is to makemore money off others’ work. And it’s not just the App Store that they’re trying to squeeze — it’s also artists, musicians and songwriters.
Control Spotify With Siri
Just this week, Spotify sued music creators after a decision by the US Copyright Royalty Board required Spotify to increase its royalty payments. This isn’t just wrong, it represents a real, meaningful and damaging step backwards for the music industry.
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