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Open-Source Spotify frontends (lemm.ee)

submitted 8 months ago by NicerLemmyUser@lemm.ee to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Are there any open-source spotify frontends? If there aren't, why not?

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[–] NicerLemmyUser@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I have seen most, if not all spotify frontends (that actually play music from spotify rather than finding the stream on yt) require spotify premium. Why is that so?

[–] Rand0mA@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Presumably it makes use of API access.

I may be slight off here, but for anything other than viewing currently playing, and maybe a few other things, you need premium to choose a track, and control the player.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I suspect that Spotify restricts the connect capabilities and/or API to premium users.

But since Spotify free has always been unusable, I don't see the problem.