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I think it's not completely inconceivable that this could be regulated some day with music streaming. There are zero technical hurdles (unlike with complex apps

by rozab 6y ago

I think it's not completely inconceivable that this could be regulated some day with music streaming. There are zero technical hurdles (unlike with complex apps like Google docs), and because there is such potential for decoupling the client the consumer benefits would likely be much greater. I've been meaning to switch from Apple Music to Spotify for a while now (I'm on Android). I just had a look around the Spotify app today and the interface is terrible, it won't let me play and view my library like I want to. It would be so much easier if I could just use both from a single open source client, and then I wouldn't have to switch off to soundcloud and bandcamp for certain artists. Wouldn't it be in the interests of players like Google and Apple to create this service/protocol, even before the regulatory net starts closing in?

moistbar 6y ago
You should check out Spot[0]. It's a Spotify client written in Rust using GTK. It's quite barebones at the moment and only works with premium accounts, but the interface is much cleaner than the official Spotify client. [0] https://github.com/xou816/spot https://github.com/xou816/spot
- Bishop_ 6y ago
  If a terminal is more your style you can even use Spotify-tui[0]. Requires some setup and having an additional client installed for the actual audio playback but it's still interesting using Spotify from a terminal. [0] https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui