PS5 Levelling Up with Native Spotify, Disney+ Apps

Disney+ on PS5 is so useless, even with a native app. No Dolby Vision is a dealbreaker since pretty much everything on Disney+ is Dolby Vision.

I mean Spotify works fine for me, actually thought it was the ps5 version with PlayStation card for it. I hope one thing they add if Spotify is playing it automatically cuts game music swear that was a feature years and years ago.

Great maybe someday they can add YouTube Music, that would be appreciated.

@LIMA it’s far from perfect and the native app on your tv might be the better choice, nevertheless there is a fallback to static HDR10 then on the PlayStation.
At least you get HDR, not dynamic like Dolby vision but the difference is not groundbreaking.

@Ssimsim i remember that feature on the Xbox 360.
I loved it and miss it as well.

Good to hear, current app is terrible.

Disney+ is an absolute nightmare with the media remote so hopefully this sorts it out. Hopefully we can get a PS5 VR Youtube app too. But i guess we need to wait for PSVR2

I’d like Sony to do an app for Shudder.

I have never been able to open the Disney+ app on the PS5, it says its installed, but it gives me an error

The current version of the Disney+ app on PS5 has always had a very noticeable lag when viewing content. I have pretty good broadband too and none of the other streaming apps I use seem to have this issue. Weird.

Hopefully this new app will fix it because I think Disney+ is actually the best of the bunch, content-wise. I’ve ditched Amazon this month and seriously thinking about dropping Netflix too (Netflix has gone WAY downhill over the last year or so). I’ll just sub again for a month when the next season of Stranger Things comes out 😁

@jacobia I’d like them to add a web browser too - couldn’t believe they didn’t have this when I needed to use it the other week.

I barely use my PS5 for any media because they're mostly PS4 apps plus my Bravia TV just has superior quality. Although the sound sounds better on my PS5.

Why no Paramount Plus?

@GagaOooLaLa this is actually so stupid. I can use a browser on my Vita, PS3, PS4, Watch, now my FRIDGE but not my PS5? And they even bothered to build one for it ??

Make no sense at all

@Ssimsim Yeah that would be useful. Hoping a PS5 version also increases the music's streaming quality, I find it's noticeably worse sounding than when I use my phone or PC.

Took them long enough. The ps4 app sucks majorly so I use the xbox app if I’m watching on a tv that doesn’t have the app available.

EDIT: disney+ I mean.

Yeah, without Dolby Vision all these media apps are pointless on the PS5. I ended up getting an Nvidia Shield for streaming Plex, Netflix, Disney and Amazon Prime, instead.

Sony need to just suck it up and pay the licence fee already.

@theMEGAniggle it makes perfect sense when you realise that the PS3, PS4 and PS Vita were all hacked via the browser.

@MattBoothDev yes, maybe I want to homebrew my PS5 too, whats it to you, fed

@rockodoodle I think you can access Paramount plus through the Apple TV app

@Biz_Martin you can access also through prime video

Yes, I love Spotify.

Where is Paramount+??? It's still absent on PS5 and PS4 (last I checked) in the U.S.

These apps can't stream surround sound through DTS or DD!
Only Netflix is totally fine. -_-

@theMEGAniggle perfect response to that repetitive & lazy excuse ! 😂

@theMEGAniggle then you'll have to up your game, or wait for the big boys to hack it.

Just sayin', from Sony's POV, the browser was a security liability and an ever evolving one at that.

Your post was from the POV that Sony are somehow inept for forgetting something as small as a browser, when in reality it's a conscious decision.

But apparently, you knew that anyway? So, why make your original "hot take"?

@nomither6 I hate hearing it 😂

@MattBoothDev since you asked so kindly, it’s not really a hot take, it’s just me saying they put it on the previous consoles (even though they knew it would make them hackable). They went through the effort of making the browser, but made it inaccessible. Give us choice please. That’s a Nintendo move.

Maybe I want to use a game boy emulator or maybe I just want to be able to watch illegal football matches on the browser, but I have no choice.

@Ssimsim
I could swear whenever I had Spotify playing on PS4 it would block out to in-game music and replace it with whatever I was playing through the app

@theMEGAniggle they didn't include the browser knowing it was hackable.

I have been home-brewing stuff for years and you accept it's game of cat and mouse with the manufacturer. Only newbies and kids complain that they don't make it easy.

I'm sure it'll be hacked eventually. But back to the original topic, did they forget to include the browser in the PS5? No. It's an intentional action.

If you want a sweet retro emulator setup, get a Raspberry Pi.

@MattBoothDev You really are missing the point. Nobody said they forgot, or it wasn't intentional. Just complaining about the exclusion of something I want. Have a nice day Matt

@theMEGAniggle that's much better. As I said, I'm sure it'll be hacked, eventually. We can bemoan the removal of the browser, but we have to understand why they did that, and that they had to.

I can highly recommend a Raspberry Pi 4 running RetroPi to run anything from PS2 era backwards. Though I'm personally running an Nvidia Shield (2019) and the Android RetroArch build. This really just handles PS1 era backwards, though.

@MattBoothDev I'll check it out, thanks for the plug