Spotify will shut down its radio-like listening app Stations on Could sixteenth

Moreover podcasts, issues in your automotive, and annual listening recaps, Spotify has been operating one other experiment since 2018 with Stations, a “light-weight” app obtainable free of charge and paid subscribers.

After its preliminary debut abroad with an Android model, Spotify launched an iOS model of the app in 2019 and opened it as much as customers within the US. Nonetheless, now the check is over, and 9to5Google stories Spotify has began notifying customers that the app will shut down on Could sixteenth.

When you used Stations, you’ll be able to go to the positioning to maneuver your favourite curated lists over to the primary Spotify app, which incorporates the next message:

Stations is shutting down on Could sixteenth. The stations you created will go away, however you’ll be able to nonetheless take pleasure in Spotify by logging in along with your Stations account. Uncover playlists made for you, plus tens of millions of songs and podcasts.

The Stations gimmick was that it began enjoying as quickly as you opened the app, and whereas customers might swap throughout their most well-liked stations / playlists, there was no solution to decide particular tracks or artists, and returning to a station would begin proper the place it left off. The obtainable stations included various presets and a few you possibly can create by choosing your favourite artists from a listing, and it could try to personalize the expertise for you over time.

In a press release given to TechCrunch, Spotify stated of its numerous initiatives: “A few of these assessments find yourself paving the way in which for our broader consumer expertise and others serve solely as an essential studying. Our Spotify Stations Beta was a type of assessments. We shall be sunsetting the present function, however customers will be capable to simply switch their favourite stations and revel in an analogous radio expertise instantly inside the Spotify app.”

When you’ve been dedicated to the Stations function, chances are you’ll discover an improved Spotify Radio expertise inside the primary app, which now can embody personalised radio stations in addition to a information and music playlist for drivers. As TechCrunch notes, Spotify introduced a rebranding for its reside audio platform from Greenroom to Spotify Dwell final month and can embody its options in the primary app whereas additionally leaving a standalone app obtainable.