Spotify Is Finally Adding a Sleep Timer for Songs

Spotify is finally adding a built-in timer for when you are listening to songs in bed. The new timer feature is coming first on Android, as first reported by Android Police, and spotted by users on Reddit.

The built-in timer means when you go to bed, you can start listening to an album or a playlist, and set the timer to stop the audio after a certain duration, going up to 1 hour. You can also use the timer feature to stop playing after the end of a track, too.

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The feature is only available for Android for the time being, and it’s not showing up on iOS as of yet. But you can simply use the built-in timer feature on the Clock app in iOS to stop playing music after the timer finishes, so that’s pretty handy for now.

Spotify’s sleep timer feature has been available for a while, but for some reason, it’s only limited to Podcasts, and not for regular music. And now that Spotify is slowly merging music and podcasts, it makes sense to bring the sleep timer to normal music playback.

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  • Rob_Wade

    25 May, 2019 - 5:29 pm

    <p>That's all well and good. But can I stream my music from OneDrive? Can I purchase and download music? No? Then, like almost all other music apps, this is useless to me. Utterly, frustratingly useless to me.</p>

    • Atoqir

      26 May, 2019 - 8:12 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#430605">In reply to Rob_Wade:</a></em></blockquote><p><br></p><p>Good for you. Now let the other <span style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);">217 million monthly active users worldwide enjoy the service.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);">You are probably one of those sad grumpy guys who still uses a Windows Mobile phone and Cortana speakers. And someone that will be bitter for the rest of life cause all those things failed for obvious reasons.</span></p>

      • dontbe evil

        26 May, 2019 - 9:41 am

        <blockquote><em><a href="#430707">In reply to Atoqir:</a></em></blockquote><p>maybe your're still using g+ and google allo?</p>

        • Atoqir

          27 May, 2019 - 12:25 pm

          <blockquote><a href="#430738"><em>In reply to dontbe_evil:</em></a><em> </em></blockquote><blockquote><br></blockquote><blockquote><em>those don’t require specific hardware</em></blockquote>

    • solb

      15 July, 2019 - 8:15 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#430605">In reply to Rob_Wade:</a></em></blockquote><p>You can upload your own audio files to Spotify for free with a mobile app called Amuse.</p>

  • mattbg

    Premium Member
    25 May, 2019 - 9:25 pm

    <p>I always just use the iOS timer you mentioned. Swipe up, set the iOS timer to stop playing after x mins, and that's it.</p><p><br></p><p>I'm not sure I would even use a built-in Spotify sleep timer if there was one on iOS because the built-in sleep timer works so well across the board.</p>

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