Any chance of getting spotify on NDX/ND5XS?

Posted by: MangoMonkey on 01 December 2011

Still need to use my squeezebox touch. If ND5XS gets spotify, I'll ditch the touch in a heartbeat.

Posted on: 01 December 2011 by KRM
If you have a Spotify Premium account you can connect your iPad/Touch/Phone to the NDX/ND5 via the USB input. The patches about to be released (in secret!) will make the NDX AirPlay ready, so it will not be necessary to embed Spotify in the streamers (the ND5 is already patched). I believe it is already possible for Linn streamers to play Spotify wirelessly and AirPlay is coming to Naim next year.

Keith
Posted on: 02 December 2011 by MangoMonkey

I don't think airplay is going to be quite enough. Ideally, I would like to be able to use my ipad (that I'm using for other tasks) to control spotify, and for the data to get streamed to the airplay device.

Don't want to keep my ipad connected to the device.

 

Looks like what you would have to do is the following:

a) Have spotify installed on a computer.

b) Use Ipad app to control spotify on that computer. (computer needs to be running all the time, or be able to wake up when i use the ipad app).

c) Route stream from computer to the airplay system.

 

I'll stick to squeezebox for now. Simpler to stream it from the sb into a dac. In end effect, it's like getting an ipod and hooking it up to a dac.

Posted on: 02 December 2011 by KRM
AirPlay can stream Spotify from an iPad to a Linn DS. I saw and heard it done this afternoon so I would like to think Naim will be able to do it too. I don't want to connect my iPad to the NDX either but sometimes it's necessary to go to extraordinary lengths if you really want something ;-)

Keith
Posted on: 02 December 2011 by Asenna04

 

I use SB as well. But I think 2 developments would be a huge improvement:-

 

1. Embed Spotify in the upnp server. Spotify has been releasing API's for different systems and this should be quite simple to do.

2. Naim to embed Spotify in their network streamers (although this seems unlikely to happen, but I might be surprised).

 

ASenna04

Posted on: 03 December 2011 by Salmon Dave

Once again the replies all imply that a customer is happy to pay out for Apple products.

Posted on: 28 December 2011 by Klout10

Any chance of getting spotify on the HDX??

Regards,

Michel