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I love seeing software like this, even if it's not legal. Who cares? I remember being a teenager and trying out all sorts of cool underground, fundamentally ill

I love seeing software like this, even if it's not legal. Who cares? I remember being a teenager and trying out all sorts of cool underground, fundamentally illegal software, or stuff that worked around Terms of Service. Where would the world be today without Napster? Maybe the same place, but provocative software is the definition of cool.

gjs278 5y ago
people on here care about laws too much. it's a api/webscraping tool redisplayed a gtk window. nobody is going to go to jail. even if they dmca it someone should just host the sources on anything other than github and let it ride. people cheat at videogames all the time, they can cheat on a music client.
jazzyjackson 5y ago
Nothing illegal about it, Spotify has a well documented API and supports third party clients
- sunshineforever 5y ago
  So does this version not have advertisements or something?
  - laserbeam 5y ago
    You still need to log into spotify to use any 3rd party app and none of the playback apis will work without a premium account. Apps like this one are for people with premium accounts.
- laserbeam 5y ago
  Eh. Ish. They only support playback within a browser and have deprecated native playback support years ago. Also their ToS technically doesn't let you do a looot of things you may want. Like caching. Srsly, you're not allowed to cache things. Many 3rd parties stopped supporting spotify because the dev ToS kept getting worse. Regardless, I'm excited about this little project even if it goes against the ToS.
  - jazzyjackson 5y ago
    Hmm it was years ago but I remember now my chatbot was controlling the playback session in a browser, you’re right.
BoxOfRain 5y ago
Things like Napster have a long tradition dating back to the 1960s, in the UK the response to the paternalistic and stuffy state monopoly on music broadcasting was for people to put studios and transmitters on ships parked just outside of British territorial waters. That’s really what fuelled the explosion in British music!

gjs278 5y ago

people on here care about laws too much. it's a api/webscraping tool redisplayed a gtk window. nobody is going to go to jail. even if they dmca it someone should just host the sources on anything other than github and let it ride. people cheat at videogames all the time, they can cheat on a music client.

jazzyjackson 5y ago

Nothing illegal about it, Spotify has a well documented API and supports third party clients

sunshineforever 5y ago
So does this version not have advertisements or something?
- laserbeam 5y ago
  You still need to log into spotify to use any 3rd party app and none of the playback apis will work without a premium account. Apps like this one are for people with premium accounts.
laserbeam 5y ago
Eh. Ish. They only support playback within a browser and have deprecated native playback support years ago. Also their ToS technically doesn't let you do a looot of things you may want. Like caching. Srsly, you're not allowed to cache things. Many 3rd parties stopped supporting spotify because the dev ToS kept getting worse. Regardless, I'm excited about this little project even if it goes against the ToS.
- jazzyjackson 5y ago
  Hmm it was years ago but I remember now my chatbot was controlling the playback session in a browser, you’re right.

BoxOfRain 5y ago

Things like Napster have a long tradition dating back to the 1960s, in the UK the response to the paternalistic and stuffy state monopoly on music broadcasting was for people to put studios and transmitters on ships parked just outside of British territorial waters. That’s really what fuelled the explosion in British music!