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Does this mean that full song play from the API doesn't work anymore, or it's about something else?
by BenGosub 4y ago
Does this mean that full song play from the API doesn't work anymore, or it's about something else?
- pjmq 4y agoessentially yes. You can use the web SDK to play songs but it's a very poor experience. Native apps can no longer play full songs.
- Aachen 4y agoI'm surprised that was possible in the first place. How were there no clients that implemented Spotify then? I'd have loved to use something less shitty than the Spotify player, both on Linux where they keep breaking things that used to work and on Android where offline mode is a joke. The only third party Spotify player apps I saw were remote controls that just talked to a connected "device" (potentially on localhost).
- pjmq 4y agoThere were tons of unofficial clients, mostly open source efforts as Spotify didn't allow for any monetizable components in apps so it never made much sense to build a business off the back of it.
- BenGosub 4y agoI would call the experience anything but shitty. And yes, there are numerous of apps building on top of this, I maintain an app in production that use it.
- BenGosub 4y agoIs it temporary or permanent?
- pjmq 4y agoPermanent. Spotify doesn't want apps streaming music through anything other than Spotify's own walled experience for a number of seemingly financial reasons others have highlighted here.