Spotify app on Blackberry via Amazon Appstore

[g-dub]

This one is driving me nuts - so much so I don't know if I will be paying for a full subscription once my trial is over..

I have a Blackberry passport,  O/S version 10.3.1.779. Downloaded the Spotify app via the Amazon appstore. It was working perfectly for a while and now it's very buggy.

The BB is connected to the  (2015) Audi MMI+ via bluetooth and that's where I do the majority of my listening.. So, here are my issues..

1)Album art does not display on the MMI+ display consistently - even if it's showing on the Blackberry. This is not a big deal, I can live with it.

2)When I'm trying to browse my playlist, it just spins and spins. Sometimes it will eventually show up, sometimes not and I have to restart the app, sometimes a few times before I get anything working.

3)This is the most recent pain - The MMI+ display is stuck on a single track, eventhough everything is working and showing on the BlackBerry. I can skip to the next track via the steering wheel button but the track info is still stuck. And when I get back into the car at the end of the workday, it's still stuck on that single track...

So, nothing has changed on the Audi.. I'm thinking it's either the O/S or the Spotify app which I did upgrade not too long ago. I uninstalled the app, restarted the phone and reinstalled the app. No change, still buggy.

Anyone have any ideas? 

[LordRollin]

Issues betwee ndevices are most common when the two instances of Spotify are on different versions. You mentioned updating the Sptofy version on your phone, so I would check to make sure that the software in your Audi is also up-to-date. I also don't know much about Blackberry phones, but it is possible that your device is no longer supported. Ultimately there are a few things that could be causing issues. If you could confirm that everytthing is up-to-date and compatible I'll do some more digging. Cheers!

[manuelw79 · Accepted solution]

Maybe the Spotify app on Amazon Appstore is an older one. Had troubles with the versions on Amazon Appstore too. Google Play Store has a newer version. I don't have any issues now.

Visit http://forums.crackberry.com/android-apps-amazon-store-apk-files-f413/google-play-store-blackberry-1...

To learn how to install Google Play Store on your device.

If you don't like Google Play Store you would give Snap a try. Also available on forums.crackberry.com 

Hope that this will solve your issues.

[g-dub]

That did the trick! Plus I learnt something new about installing Google Play Store on the BB. Thanks for you help!

[manuelw79]

Glad to hear that it works for you 🙂 would be much easier if Spotify would port the App (which would be really easy) for BlackBerry OS10...
But there are ways ;

[emyvet]

I find it really embarrassing that a company as big as Spotify is not able to give us a native app for the new BB10 system.
They were successful on BlackBerry OS7 and the app was fine, I do not understand why after two years since the launch of BB10 are not able to make an app for BlackBerry users 10.
Really shameful, even Windows Phone has its own version!
What kind of discrimination, certainly if you do not I will use Deezers who made the app for BlackBerry 10.
But really I do not understand why not earn even the customers BlackBerry10, sapemo less users of Windows Phone but always your potential customers can be and it would be nice not to lose them at the expense of Deezer.
Glad you can not force you to create a native app for BlackBerry 10, but I seem to remember that in 2013 you announced that the BB10 version was in the works but that at present it was not possible to show it ...
A pity, I will pass to Deezer and still do not have much market share but BlackBerry users around the world are more than 80 million. If you want to lose all these potential subscriptions, happy you.
See you soon.

[emyvet]

I find it really absurd na similar situation. I understand that BlackBerry does not have the numbers of Apple and Android, but has an installed base of more than 80 million customers, does not satisfy me sounds crazy ... Why then Deezer is on BB10, so why miss the chance to take them all? BlackBerry is now a healthy company, has no debt, has a cash fund of $ 3 billion, in the last half-year has earned $ 500 million through the sale of its software packages and smarthone. I do not understand really what cost to a company like Spotify make it a native app ... I find this situation embarrassing, then I would like to know who decided to create an app for a os, the system must have an installed base of 6% globally. BlackBerry has a global percentage of 3%, I know it's not, it could be considered niche market, but it is a market that will never abandon BlackBerry. Simply because with a BlackBerry 10 do operations that neither iOS nor Android can do. I hope for a change of heart, in the end they had an app on BlackBerry OS7, to end on that support them and concentrate on the native version for BB10. But really I do not understand which would be the costs to bear to create an app for BlackBerry 10. A good developer in half a day creates and develops the language you Cascades ... I take this opportunity to greet all the people like me victims of this discrimination by Spotify. I hope to announce a surprise machining a native app. Do not tell me that it is a difficult operation plays, the developer nemorystudios has made a beta of your client is called Spot2fy and works well but is not official and crashes often. If you let it listen to the customer if the BlackBerry deserves.