Spotify Like Music App Development

Informational advancements have made life easier for people in several industries, and the same is for musicians. Today, thousands of music applications & art platforms are designed for emerging artists and their audiences.

Sometimes it's hard to imagine how fast the music streaming industry is enlarging. The Music & Audio category has over 175,000 apps accessible and is the third most demanded category in the Google Play store. Similarly, music streaming apps are quite popular on the Apple App Store.

Creating a music app is a really profitable task. Supposing you possess an idea but don't make out what to commance with, just contact Alfee professionals. We'd be satisfied to provide detailed consultation and make a music streaming app solution.

What is Spotify streaming app?

Let's commance with describing the sensational Spotify app, its peculiarities. So, actually what is Spotify app? This is the globe's most demanded online music streaming service with 300+ mln users, with over 160 mln paid subscribers.

Spotify is a music streaming service that requires no buying or downloading of audio to legally listen to them: the individual just picks up a song and starts playing it.

Supposing a person listens to a music track, the copyright owner accepts royalty rewards, this makes approximately 65% of its income.

The platform makes money via Premium subscription, advertising integrations and multiple instruments that assist artists spread their music and promote within the framework: filling out an artist's profile, obtaining the Verified status, support, etc.

For whom to create a Spotify clone app?

The prevailing part of target audience of a music streaming app are individuals wishing to listen to their adorable music in the most convenient way.

The moment the Spotify app appeared there were practically no competitors in field. Nowadays the situation has changed significantly. There are bunches of music streaming services today, and it's becoming difficult to outperform them. So if you've made up your mind to create your own music app, it's better to count on an original & unique target audience to leave all others behind with a more personalized playlist in your selected niche, as well as more customized design and promotion.

Steps we follow when we develop app like Spotify

When our team is engaged in the creation of a music streaming app, we follow a strict algorithm to achieve the most excellent results. Find the steps of development process below:

1. 01

   Business analysis & market research. Analytics help understand in detail goals you are pursuing when developing a music streaming app and functions software solution should contain to achieve them. Everything commances with a deep analysis and research of existing Spotify clone apps that are implemented by other companies.
2. 02

   Design & development. This is where page layouts begin to appear as part of creating a music streaming app for mobile devices, developing the design of the application and its milestones, designing the interface, graphic elements and other little issues that will eventually create a coherent picture.
3. 03

   Android apps development and iOS platform solutions. This is the moment when developers create the code for your future music streaming app. This is the reverse side of music streaming app development, which carries the most crucial function - to respond to any user movements.
4. 04

   Testing. You can’t just build and release a music app, you ought to make certain that it works smoothly without upsetting the user with problems. Testers prescribe a lot of scenarios according to which they start working with your music app, going through the path that your users will follow in the future. They include the most common set of actions, and it is important that none of the steps fail.
5. 05

   Maintenance & Support. Even the most thoughtful testing isn't able to detect 100% failures before release. In addition, the customer may wish to make minor changes to the design of the music app: the color of buttons and text, fonts, the location of the image on the page. All this is solved through the technical support of applications.

What features should music app like Spotify have?

One of the most important moments when you are about to create a music streaming app is to pick up the app features. Undoubtedly, music streaming is the major option of this kind of software, but there are some other important points to pay attention to. Find them below.

User authorization in the music app

We recommend to add several ways of authorization, but they all should take place directly at the music streaming website or application. No other sources are welcomed, especially if you don't want to face any troubles with the future app.

Music playlists

You should provide your users with the opportunity to view lists of available music tracks, as well as to create playlists with their favorite tracks. Individual playlists are one of the main reasons why people install music streaming applications.

Convenient search bar

Add several filters to arrange the search inside your music library. This can include searching songs by keywords, by music artists, by albums, etc. The more detailed search you arrange the better.

Music player functions

Actually this includes two points, i.e. playing a song when you click the Play button and pausing a song when the Pause button is pressed. And we also add playback streams function here.

You can also add album art display, social media integration, possibility to share songs, recommendations, favorite songs & favorite artists, push notifications and many more.

How much does it cost to develop apps like Spotify?

When you plan to go in for Spotify like music application elaboration, you should study the price. The question is discussible, since the final price is predetermined by several factors, such as working with a elaboration team or freelance music streaming application builders. Working with a freelancer implies more risk, but it's more cost efficient that cooperating with a elaboration firm.

Nevertheless, if you do not want sacrifice quality and select to elaborate a music streaming app or a music streaming web site, we strictly recommend you to turn to specialists like Alfee experts.

As for the cost, it will rely on the app complexity, programming languages and functionality set. In general, those who elaborate music streaming application like Spotify ask from 75,500 USD for native music app and about 120,000 USD for multiple platforms.

Why entrust Alfee with developing custom music streaming apps like Spotify?

Alfee experts know how to entertain and inspire your audience by elaborating a music application. We have vast skills in Spotify like music app development and our team is ready to implement all their knowledge and experiences to create a music streaming app of your dream. We are aware of all the pitfalls in the niche of music streaming application development.

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