18 ms·

I haven't looked at the code but I would be surprised if the premium account "requirement" is anything more than an if statement that can be commented out.

by grishka 10mo ago

squigz 10mo ago
Pretty sure that requirement is server-side?
- grishka 10mo ago
  What do you mean? You can still stream any song with a free account. It's just that there will be ads. Additionally, in mobile apps, there will be ridiculous artificial limitations to make sure your experience is as miserable as it could possibly be. My understanding is that the premium requirement is there to avoid having the repo taken down.
  - squigz 10mo ago
    My understanding, based on a related comment in this thread, was that premium accounts get higher quality; in that case, I figured any such checks would be server-side. If you were referring to a separate check in the above repo's code, my mistake.
    - grishka 10mo ago
      Hm, maybe. I don't remember whether they offer higher quality. If they do, it would make sense to have that check on the server side. It's been a while since I last used Spotify because they deleted my account in 2022 without warning when they left Russia. But I was referring specifically to all third-party reverse-engineered Spotify players requiring premium accounts to function at all.
Retr0id 10mo ago
You are correct
- nsteel 10mo ago
  I believe that changed recently and Spotify started blocking the key requests from free accounts.
  - Retr0id 10mo ago
    Then how do people with free accounts listen to music lol (It is plausible they added some new DRM but it's not going to be anything too crazy)
    - nsteel 10mo ago
      Their official clients have moved over to playplay DRM protection for non-lossless files too. The old key endpoints no longer work for free accounts, they must have added a server-side check.

18 ms·

I haven't looked at the code but I would be surprised if the premium account "requirement" is anything more than an if statement that can be commented out.

by grishka 10mo ago

I haven't looked at the code but I would be surprised if the premium account "requirement" is anything more than an if statement that can be commented out.

squigz 10mo ago
Pretty sure that requirement is server-side?
- grishka 10mo ago
  What do you mean? You can still stream any song with a free account. It's just that there will be ads. Additionally, in mobile apps, there will be ridiculous artificial limitations to make sure your experience is as miserable as it could possibly be. My understanding is that the premium requirement is there to avoid having the repo taken down.
  - squigz 10mo ago
    My understanding, based on a related comment in this thread, was that premium accounts get higher quality; in that case, I figured any such checks would be server-side. If you were referring to a separate check in the above repo's code, my mistake.
    - grishka 10mo ago
      Hm, maybe. I don't remember whether they offer higher quality. If they do, it would make sense to have that check on the server side. It's been a while since I last used Spotify because they deleted my account in 2022 without warning when they left Russia. But I was referring specifically to all third-party reverse-engineered Spotify players requiring premium accounts to function at all.
Retr0id 10mo ago
You are correct
- nsteel 10mo ago
  I believe that changed recently and Spotify started blocking the key requests from free accounts.
  - Retr0id 10mo ago
    Then how do people with free accounts listen to music lol (It is plausible they added some new DRM but it's not going to be anything too crazy)
    - nsteel 10mo ago
      Their official clients have moved over to playplay DRM protection for non-lossless files too. The old key endpoints no longer work for free accounts, they must have added a server-side check.