Re:Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting?
by p1necone on Sunday February 09, 2020 @10:47PM
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My biggest gripe with Spotify is that I don't want to be forced to use their player. I wish they had some kind of API to let other players access the music streams and metadata. (I know I know piracy, but the analog hole exists, and anything on Spotify is already easily pirateable).
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They actually do have an API: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/ - you don't have direct access to the music streams, but you do have access to all the metadata, the various metrics used to generate "radio" etc and the capability to remotely control a Spotify player; so it's perfectly possible to write your own UI / playlist manager / whatever and just treat their player as a dumb part of your audio playback stack.
Re:Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting?
by kingosticks on Monday February 10, 2020 @02:26PM
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_IF_ you have a browser available to run the audio playback part of your player. Additionally, their queue API extremely basic. So in reality you are limited to making a pretty UI. It's not great.