Spotify has quietly released a native Windows on ARM desktop client in beta (thanks Jeremy Sinclair for spotting it on Reddit). It’s been a popular request on the Spotify Community website, which is where the company announced the release of the new ARM64 client yesterday.
If you’ve been using the regular Spotify client on a Windows on ARM PC, you’ll need to uninstall it before you install this new ARM beta. The client is downloadable from this link, and it will receive automatic updates just like the regular Spotify client.
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The company mentioned that there’s currently one known issue preventing some video podcast episodes to be played in the app. The current workaround is to watch this content on the Spotify web app until the team can fix the bug.
Spotify is one of the most popular music streaming services and it’s good to see the company support Windows on ARM users. If the Windows on ARM ecosystem is still in its infancy, Microsoft actually had some exciting news at its Build conference last week with a new “Project Volterra” device designed for developing and testing ARM64 apps.
The software giant also announced the release of a new toolchain for building Arm native apps that includes native versions of Visual Studio 2022 and Visual Studio Code. It could be a while before most developers start shipping ARM64 versions of their Windows apps, but Microsoft is committed to making this extra development effort easier than ever.