This led to apparently accurate speculation that Spotify support was coming to an end. Algoriddim said in a statement that Spotify will no longer work with third party DJ apps as of July 1st. After that you will be able to install any third-party apps; However, kindly note that the player might act slow if running with too many apps. And some third-party apps may not work properly on the player, in which case you can uninstall them in Settings - General - Apps.

Fire the DJ and start the social jukebox at your next party

Start the music democracy

The Jukestar social jukebox app will automatically distribute the playlist based on who requested what, when they requested it and what other guests think of the songs. This way, everyone gets a fair go.

No one can hog the playlist

Guests can request songs from the millions within Spotify’s catalog via the Jukestar Guest App. Even if someone has already requested 20 songs, a new request from another guest will be slotted in amongst these. A true social jukebox!

The good stuff gets played

Guests can use the Jukestar Guest App to upvote any song in the playlist. The more votes a song receives, the sooner it will be played.

The bad stuff gets skipped

If enough guests veto a song it disappears from the playlist. Not even the playing song is safe! Jukestar will also make sure the same song isn't repeated on the night.

Accessible by everyone

Guests do not need a Spotify account and can use their phone or tablet to join using the iOS, Android or Web Jukestar Guest App. Pretend to be a guest using our Sample Party (password: sample) and see how easy it is.

Hosts can use the Jukestar iOS party music app or the Jukestar Android party dj app.

Download:

The party host requires a Spotify Premium account
(a 30 day free trial is available from Spotify).

Music streaming service Spotify is rolling out a new update for its desktop version, which removes its once-popular third-party app support.

The feature, which launched in 2011, allowed anyone to build apps to extend Spotify's functionality. A catalogue of more than 100 apps quickly built up that offered lyrics, tour dates, collective listening, music recommendations and more.

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Over time, however, that catalogue became polluted as music industry marketers dived in. Festivals created apps, instead of playlists, to share who was performing. Labels built apps that listed the artists on their roster, and artists even started to build apps that were just a biography and a list of songs they'd recorded. Discovery became a real problem -- users didn't want to wade through the bilge to find the gold. So the section started to stagnate somewhat, and has remained in that state for several years while Spotify launched separate developer tools focused on taking app functionality out of Spotify and into the browser instead.

That brings us up to today and the announcement from the company that the App Finder and everything within is on death row. The next version will remove all support for third-party apps within the desktop version of Spotify. 'Future releases of the Spotify Desktop client will no longer feature an App Finder tab and will no longer support the presentation of Spotify Apps, therefore this feature has been discontinued,' reads the official developer page for the feature.

There's one exception. The second most popular lyrics app in the App Finder, Musixmatch, is being integrated into the main codebase of the desktop software. A button saying 'lyrics' will be added next to the play bar, which will display the lyrics of any song in Musixmatch's database. You can see how it works in this video. 'We're excited to bring an update to one of our key platforms -- one that makes the experience smoother and introduces some great features and integrations,' said Dave Price, director of product at Spotify. He added that he's 'thrilled to bring desktop listeners such a sought-after feature as lyrics', seemingly oblivious to the fact that lyrics have been available in Spotify through different apps since 2011.

The update also brings some minor improvements to other desktop features. An improved Friend Feed will tell you what your friends are listening to in real-time, and the charts section adds indicators that show new music and how tracks are performing on a day-to-day basis.

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It'll roll out gradually to all desktop users over the coming weeks. So if you're still using any apps, enjoy them while you can.