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Re:Netflix and Spotify on a Raspberry Pi 4 with Chromium and... by shp0ngle on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @11:13PM (#25924177)
How do projects like this work?

https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot

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Re:Netflix and Spotify on a Raspberry Pi 4 with Chromium and... by MrGilbert on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @01:20AM (#25924932)
It's a reverse-engineered version of the "Spotify Connect" protocol. [1] The original name of "librespot" was "spotify-connect", as this fork shows.

[1]: https://github.com/Fornoth/spotify-connect/blob/master/READM...

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Re:Netflix and Spotify on a Raspberry Pi 4 with Chromium and... by kitsunesoba on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @01:01AM (#25924822)
As far as I know, librespot is reverse-engineered from libspotify and/or the official Spotify client. As mentioned on their GitHub page:

> Using this code to connect to Spotify's API is probably forbidden by them. Use at your own risk.

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