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by pjmq 4y ago
You're not wrong. But if Spotify doesn't want to allow developers to be lab rats for wild and whacky ideas that are too risky for them to try themselves but could eventually either become or reveal the next big thing, they're
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by pjmq 4y ago
But you can't legally build music apps atop YouTube/YouTube music from what I can see.
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by pjmq 4y ago
What boils my blood the most about this is the fact Spotify lured developers in the early days, filled out their functional gaps and got free feature validation through those developers, bought and shuttered the Echonest to ensure devs woul
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by pjmq 4y ago
It 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...
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by pjmq 4y ago
essentially 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.
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Please continue supporting iOS/Android streaming SDKs(community.spotify.com)
122 points by pjmq 4y ago|67 comments
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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 SD
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by pjmq 4y ago
I built that into my past music service of mine. It's a novel feature but was ultimately, little used, at least in that configuration.
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Maybe hybrid apps deserve a second look(medium.com)
3 points by pjmq 4y ago|2 comments