[vitd]

I'm curious - I see that Midomi Sound Hound now has voice recognition in iOS 9, which I assume it gets from either licensing Google Now, Cortana, or directly from the companies that provide functionality for those. Why couldn't Spotify just do that? Would that solve your problem?

[pen2l]

You would still need to find your way to the Spotify app though, so that defeats the point -- because you have to use your hand to unlock the phone, open the app, etc.

Compare this with being able to play a song by simply saying "Hey Siri play Beatles' Rain"... and that is it.

[scarface74]

"hey siri open Spotify" works fine.

[pen2l]

... And then find your way to search icon, click x to clear current query, hit microphone icon to say song name? By this point I've probably killed 9 people on the road while driving.

Compare this with "hey Siri play bob Dylan's blowing in the wind" and it working just with this

[scarface74]

The previous post was saying that Spotify could implement their own voice recognition once launched.

[pen2l]

But that's still more than simply "Hey Siri play something by Rolling stones" or "Ok google play some Johnny Cash"

Apple should have opened Siri to spotify.

[scarface74]

Even if Apple did open Siri up and provide a "music playing intent" for Siri like they did for messages, it would still be something like "play something by the Rolling Stones using Spotify". Is that much different from "open Spotify" and once Spotify is open "Play something by the Rolling Stones"?