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It’s trivial for Siri to know the song that is currently playing - Spotify signals it to iOS so that iOS can display it on the Lock Screen. It’s likely much ea
by pflenker 4y ago
It’s trivial for Siri to know the song that is currently playing - Spotify signals it to iOS so that iOS can display it on the Lock Screen.
It’s likely much easier for siri to construct a URL based on this information than to try and get a url from Spotify.
If the song itself is not on Spotify, Siri will send a link to a similar one - for example, same name and artist, but a live recording instead of the studio version. If it doesn’t have that, it fails your request and doesn’t send anything.
- ushakov 4y agocouldn’t Spotify just tell iOS the link to the current song, so that Siri could copy it? seems like Apple didn’t allow it on purpose
- TheJoeMan 4y agoSpotify could create a Siri shortcut to share the Spotify link. Instead when you tap the share button Spotify is making the link, but when asking Siri Apple is creating a link from just the song name.
- raverbashing 4y agoYeah. Or I even wonder if Siri is not "Shazaming" it and sending the match from that
- e-clinton 4y agoWhy Shazam when in iOS already has all the information it needs? Title, Singer, cover art work, etc. All that info is shared by Spotify so that it can be presented via the iOS native controls, like your lock-screen
- smileybarry 4y agoI just tried this with a Spotify song and Siri said "sorry, I'm unable to share that". It probably does a song search like you said and it failed this time. I can see a use case for this, though: when you play Apple's radio stations in Music.app (and maybe other stations with rich metadata?), the "now playing" area pretends to be the current song. In that case Siri's implementation would send a link of the current song instead of just Apple Music Hits.
- IceWreck 4y agoIf Apple allowed it, Spotify (or any other app) could easily send more metadata about whatever media is playing on the lockscreen.