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Apple does have a public API for Apple Music [1], as does Spotify [2]. In fact, I frequently use a 3rd party client [3] that's all about curated music leveragin

Apple does have a public API for Apple Music [1], as does Spotify [2]. In fact, I frequently use a 3rd party client [3] that's all about curated music leveraging the Spotify API to stream the tracks. [1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applemusicapi https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applemusicapi [2] https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/ https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/ [3] https://noonpacific.com https://noonpacific.com

danShumway 7y ago
I can't speak to Apple (I'm on Android), but I did look into 3rd-party clients for Spotify at one point and my impression was that the web API only allowed you to get information about songs, and remote-control the official client. The advice I saw online was LibSpotify was basically dead and that Spotify was probably going the same direction as Twitter: more locked down, more onerous developer TOS, fewer capabilities. I'd be pretty happy to be wrong about that, since I'm fairly annoyed with Google Play. At the time, if I had found good enough API support and a good enough 3rd-party client, I would have switched services. It's been a while since I looked into it, and maybe I missed something when I first did. I can see that Spotify is experimenting with a web playback API now[0], but as far as I can see it's still pretty limited. [0]: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-playback-sdk/ https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-playback-sdk...