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As of September 1st, Spotify concluded its half-decade-long effort to stop developers from building experiences that allowed streaming outside of their own firs
by pjmq 4y ago
As of September 1st, Spotify concluded its half-decade-long effort to stop developers from building experiences that allowed streaming outside of their own first-party apps.
Starting with libspotify and then switching off their streaming SDKs earlier this month. An alternative to both was promised but none ever materialised.
As a result, hundreds of apps still using this SDK out of necessity, have gone dark.
- hadrien01 4y agoDoesn't libspotify still work, albeit unofficially, because of old integrations in cars and other devices?
- pjmq 4y agoIt died in May if the Spotify dev announcement page is to be believed. AFIK both the streaming SDKs and libspot used the same APIs under the hood so if it wasn't dead before...
- leephillips 4y agoIt’s been working for me, installed on a Linux computer attached to my sound system: https://lee-phillips.org/spotifyRemoteLinux/ https://lee-phillips.org/spotifyRemoteLinux/ Bottom line is I can use the official Spotify client on my phone to get music from my stereo without using bluetooth.