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

  • @NicerLemmyUser@lemm.eeOP
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    28 months ago

    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
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      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
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      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.