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> I definitely was not aware Spotify DRM had been cracked to enable downloading at scale like this. Do they have DRM at all? Youtube and Pandora don't.
by thaumasiotes 11mo ago
> I definitely was not aware Spotify DRM had been cracked to enable downloading at scale like this.
Do they have DRM at all? Youtube and Pandora don't.
- ale42 11mo agoYes they do use DRM. I know they are using Widevine on the web player, but possibly other ones too (never looked very far). Not sure for the app, it might be that it is using OGG streams with a custom DRM (which is probably the one some existing downloaders actually (ab)use).
- Mindwipe 11mo agoYouTube Music uses Widevine.
- thaumasiotes 11mo agoIf it's on YouTube Music, it's also on... YouTube.
- charcircuit 11mo agoNot necessarily at the same quality though.
- thaumasiotes 11mo agoI assume in most cases they're literally the same files. Youtube runs "topic" channels for music that distributors have sent it. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYOa-hi751OKY2zGJJv6V2A https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYOa-hi751OKY2zGJJv6V2A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSSxnv1_J2g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSSxnv1_J2g (same thing, but on an official channel instead)
- charcircuit 11mo agoYou can load any youtube music song on youtube by just removing the "music" subdomain.
- thaumasiotes 11mo agoThen why do you say they might not be the same files?
- sgtlaggy 11mo agoMusic might have higher quality audio-only files as provided where Youtube might have it combined with video and a generic compression algorithm applied as with all other uploaded videos.
- charcircuit 11mo agoLet me start over. Youtube itself has DRM required for certain videos, and certain formats of videos. The 256 kbps format for music will be protected by DRM. If you do not have DRM available youtube will fallback to a lower quality format to play the auduo.
- Retr0id 11mo agoSpotify has DRM, and you can find open-source reimplementations of it on github. Their native clients use a weak hand-rolled DRM scheme (which is where the ogg vorbis files come from), whereas the web player uses Widevine with AAC.
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- nsteel 11mo agoIt's called playplay. It's used for protecting their new lossless files. But the first rule of playplay is you can't talk about playplay. https://torrentfreak.com/spotify-dismantles-spotifydl-track-download-extension-via-dmca-notice-250429/ https://torrentfreak.com/spotify-dismantles-spotifydl-track-...