Spotify is shutting down Spotify Reside, the corporate instructed Music Ally on Monday. , the standalone dwell audio app got here out of Spotify’s . Shortly after the deal went by, Spotify rebranded the startup’s Locker Room app to Spotify Greenroom, and expanded the scope of the expertise to incorporate subjects outdoors of sports activities. Then, virtually precisely a yr in the past, the streaming large and built-in a few of its performance into the primary Spotify app.

“After a interval of experimentation and learnings round how Spotify customers work together with dwell audio, we’ve made the choice to sundown the Spotify Reside app,” a Spotify spokesperson instructed Music Ally. “We consider there’s a future for dwell fan-creator interactions within the Spotify ecosystem; nevertheless, primarily based on our learnings, it now not is smart as a standalone app. We’ve seen promising leads to the artist-focused use case of ‘listening events,’ which we’ll proceed to discover shifting ahead to facilitate dwell interactions between artists and followers.”

Spotify didn’t instantly reply to Engadget’s request for remark. Nevertheless, the corporate shared affirmation of the approaching shutdown . When Spotify first introduced it was shifting into dwell audio on the , CEO Daniel Ek predicted the format would change into ubiquitous. “Identical to Tales with video the place each main platform has them as a method for its viewers to speak with one another, I see dwell audio equally,” he mentioned on the time. “I count on all of the platforms to have it.”

Nevertheless, on the finish of final yr, the corporate , signaling a scaling again of its earlier ambitions. It’s price noting Spotify is just not the one firm to tug again from the format. Final Could, Fb dad or mum firm meta introduced it was shutting down a bunch of audio merchandise, together with Soundbites, the short-form audio-sharing instrument it .