This is going to become more of a standard due to people vibecoding their own clients for every dumb thing.
It’s all about profits and psying major labels even.more
I think it’s more about closing a backdoor to free product that was generally out of reach for most people a few years. Free API access for devs has been a thing forever for the most part, but the barriers are now lower for people to abuse it.
Yes about profits in the sense they don’t want people getting free access to content, but I don’t think this is designed to net them a bunch of money or anything.
Man, this kind of sucks.
I wrote a nifty script a few years ago that pulls the popularity metric of a song, converts that to a star rating, and writes that to a tag with Mutagen. At a glance I can see the hits. If I like the track, I’ll “love” it (side stepping the need for a personal rating). It’s a system that’s been serving me well for a long time.
Locking down APIs does seem to be the trend. I’m not sure I’ll look to adapt.
Giving money to Spotify is out of the question, but I may pay for Deezer or something.
Yes indeed. It’s now failing. 😞
I think this will be a problem for Spotiflac
The 350GB I already downloaded should last me a while. Doesn’t it already get the metadata from Deezer, and flacs from Tidal/Qobuz/Amazon, anyway? Not sure why Spotify needs to be involved.
I don’t know either, but if it’s not from Spotify the links don’t work, so if they break the API the program won’t work.
In the mobile version there is an extension that uses YT music for searching and pasting links instead, hope it can still work with that if Spotify fails.
The dev is already working on it https://github.com/spotiverse/SpotiFLAC-Next
