AirServer, the best way to control Spotify from your iPhone

I've been testing apps that promise to be remotes for Spotify with enough pessimism, and that I was not looking for the panacea of ​​apps, but I settled for something as simple as what Apple offers with Remote, the problem is that it does not exist, but we can achieve something similar.

AirServer and AirPlay

This Apple technology allows you to send audio and video to other compatible devices in a couple of taps on the screen, without the need for any configuration and all with the usual simplicity of everything that Apple proposes, so it is very interesting to use in many areas of multimedia enjoyment, and among them we go to discover one that I wish had occurred to me before and that it is possible that some of you have already thought of it.

If we cannot control Spotify from the iPhone, the solution is as simple as using Spotify on the iPhone and sending the audio to the Mac. For this we will use AirServer, an application that makes our Mac / PC become an AirPlay receiver and therefore is capable of receiving audio and video from the iPhone, and even if we want to show the Apple phone screen in real time.

Almost perfect

At the same moment that we open Spotify on the iPhone and we connect the audio to the computer through AirPlay we realize that it is a success. We can manage music from the whole house with the best possible interface, which is none other than the official Spotify app. But the reality is that we have to look a little further and say that there are three things that can put a lot of people back, and I'm going to mention them because you have to say everything:

1. La battery iPhone is spent faster, something totally logical if we take into account that we are constantly passing audio. I'm not worried about being at home because you charge it at any time, but I know that many of you look at the battery with a magnifying glass and you are not going to like it.
2. AirServer it is paid. Specifically, you have to pay about 12 euros to change. For me, totally justified, but if you do not know if you are going to make great use of the application, it may cost you to pay them.
3. Spotify must be Premium, since the normal version is limited to its use on mobiles. For those of us who use it every day for hours, what it costs is a gift, but for occasional use it may not be worth it.

If you exceed these three points you are a perfect candidate, but if you keep thinking about one, perhaps what I am presenting is not the best option for you. And it goes without saying that if you know of an alternative to my proposal (the apps that exist do not work because Spotify does not support them and they fail a lot), the comments are open so that everyone can know and discuss it.