![]() This has now happened and, as part of changing its underlying APIs, Spotify has pulled support for searching its track databases from the WP8.1 application. During this time, functionality of the app will disappear – including the ability to search - and it will eventually stop working. We’ll be winding down the app over a 3-month period, starting December 10th. Windows Phone users will not be able to use Spotify on previously supported Windows Phones with full functionality. We want to make current Spotify for Windows Phone users aware that the maintenance mode status is ending in 2019. In 2017 we confirmed Spotify for Windows Phone had been placed into maintenance mode. Firstly, Spotify itself wrote in December 2018: The news here though is that these options are effectively down to one, as of now. ![]() And then there's the 'Web Wrapper' app approach. There's the official Spotify client, nominally for Windows Phone 8.1, but which was still working for Windows 10 Mobile, there's the third party Spodicast client, which takes its search, track and playlist data from your Spotify account but which actually gets its audio from the same (usually) tracks on YouTube. Mar 12th 2019 - Unofficial Spotify player (Web wrapper) UWP - is (almost) brilliant - a new approach, piggy-backing on Spotify's Web support.Dec 5th 2018 - The lawyer-avoiding rebrand: Spodicast Music! - a change of name, but the software's still pretty great (if quirky for its sources!).the developer responds to AAWP with a big update Oct 16th 2018 - Spoticast Music UWP, the rebrand, now almost continuous.Oct 9th 2018 - Spoticast for Spotify UWP - a year of updates - I round up updates to Spoticast, which is now very well-rounded.Jun 21st 2017 - Spotify becomes a Windows 10 Store app, but you need Spoticast UWP - Spotify's leap into UWP appears only for the Desktop (because they just repackaged their Win32 client), so I start to recommend Spoticast instead.Jan 19th, 2015 - Spotify's 2015 facelift - I write about Spotify 5.0 for Windows Phone 8.1.Jul 8th, 2013 - Spotify updated and comes out of beta - Out of beta and ready for Windows Phone 8.0 users.Feb 8th, 2013 - Spotify arrives on Windows Phone 8 in beta - Microsoft's new platform gets an official Spotify build.Nov 11th, 2011 - Review: Spotify - Ewan reviews this first Windows Phone client.Nov 8th, 2011 - More musical options as Spotify reaches Windows Phone - Ewan reports on the Service hitting what was then Windows Phone 7.5/7.8.The Spotify on Windows Phone story (including third party 'clients') is convoluted and long, so an AAWP coverage chronology would help here, I think:
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