Music streaming platform Spotify announces it will shut down its Wordle-inspired music quiz game ‘Heardle’ on May 5
Post Date – 10:15 PM, Sunday – 4/16/23
San Francisco: Music streaming platform Spotify has announced that it will shut down its Wordle-inspired music guessing game “Heardle” on May 5 as it aims to focus on other goals around music discovery.
“Thank you for playing Heardle, but unfortunately we have to say goodbye. From May 5th, Heardle will no longer be available,” the company said.
Spotify acquired the game last July. Similar to Wordle, Heardle gives players six chances to guess the artist and title of a popular song, but instead of entering different letters to construct words, players listen to the beginning of the song to guess the artist and title, according to TechCrunch.
The report said the decision to shut down Heardle was made because Spotify wanted to focus more on music discovery with a recent app update and less on off-platform activities inspired by Wordle.
“After careful consideration, we’ve made the difficult decision to say goodbye to Heardle as we focus our efforts on other features of music discovery,” a company spokesperson said.
Earlier this month, Spotify said it would shut down its live audio app, Spotify Live.
However, the company said it would continue to explore live streaming capabilities on its main platform.
“After a period of experimentation and learning around how Spotify users interact with live audio, we’ve decided to discontinue the Spotify Live app,” a spokesperson said.
