Does Spotify have a way to see if your computer is recording with your DAC’s stereo mix? And if so, is there a way around it?

  • folkrav@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    But how would they detect that watermark being recorded by a complete separate process or hardware output?

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      They probably scan audio tracks uploaded to music sharing sites, a few online streaming services do this for video to identify accounts ripping the content.

      If you’re doing it for personal use I see nothing to worry about

      • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org
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        1 year ago

        I know that this is possible, but I’ve never actually heard of it being done on streaming sites. I’ve only heard of it with e.g. prerelease copies of movies sent to critics or something like that.

        Any idea which sites do that?

        • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
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          1 year ago

          Crunchyroll used to (very blatantly) but I don’t think they do that anymore.

          No idea of any other on-demand streamers using it unfortunately, however WWE, warner bros, FIFA, formula 1 and a bunch of sports organisations with their own subscription service use this tech in a transparent way to kill IPTV streams quickly