Music streaming service Spotify has updated its macOS app, adding both Touch Bar support, and implementation of the auto-pause feature for Apple's wireless AirPods.
Users with the MacBook Pro with Touch Bar now have controls similar to iTunes. The Touch Bar can be used to "scrub" through a track, pause, play, induce a search box, and shuffle.
While not specifically trumpeted by Spotify, the update also pauses playback when AirPods are removed from one of the listener's ears, and resumes when re-inserted.
Spotify has over 30 million songs, and 100 million monthly active users, with 40 million paid subscribers. In , Apple Music was reported to have over 20 million subscribers, after 17 months of service -- a milestone that took Spotify 7 years to obtain with a mix of free and paid plans.
A dedicated desktop client has been one of Spotify's smaller advantages over Apple Music, which is mostly mobile-oriented and can only be reached on Mac and Windows systems through iTunes -- software burdened with several other tasks.