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Re: Open-Source Spotify App

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Post by alpb » Tue, Dec 24, 2019, 3:21 AM UTC

bransonf wrote: post #2

This is an iOS app, but if it isn’t what you were hoping for, check out these other projects. A CLI UI for Spotify [0] Spotify as a daemon [1] [0] https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui [1] https://github.com/Spotifyd/spotifyd

Does anyone know why Spotify doesn’t pursue name rights or DMCA takedowns in all these OSS projects, as they reverse engineer and use Spotify’s name? Snapchat practices DMCA/copyright for a lot for these sort of projects.

Re: Open-Source Spotify App

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Post by anamexis » Tue, Dec 24, 2019, 3:22 AM UTC

thasian wrote: post #58

anamexis wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What does “pull in” mean here?

Retrieves music from Spotify's database based on a set of parameters.

As in, actual audio? Or metadata?

Re: Open-Source Spotify App

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Post by grzm » Tue, Dec 24, 2019, 3:26 AM UTC

alpb wrote: post #56

@dang Maybe add Show HN: prefix?

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Re: Open-Source Spotify App

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Post by jason_zig » Tue, Dec 24, 2019, 3:29 AM UTC

dickeytk wrote: post #19

Someone should rebuild turntable.fm using Spotify

Yeah I did this in my own way - it’s not an exact clone but it’s heavily inspired by ttfm. I built https://www.jqbx.fm check it out - would love your feedback :)

Re: Open-Source Spotify App

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Post by happa » Tue, Dec 24, 2019, 3:44 AM UTC

alpb wrote: post #61

bransonf wrote: post #2

This is an iOS app, but if it isn’t what you were hoping for, check out these other projects. A CLI UI for Spotify [0] Spotify as a daemon [1] [0] https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui [1] https://github.com/Spotifyd/spotifyd

Does anyone know why Spotify doesn’t pursue name rights or DMCA takedowns in all these OSS projects, as they reverse engineer and use Spotify’s name? Snapchat practices DMCA/copyright for a lot for these sort of projects.

Snapchat and Spotify have very different kinds of business models.

Re: Open-Source Spotify App

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Post by fao_ » Tue, Dec 24, 2019, 3:52 AM UTC

thasian wrote: post #23

fao_ wrote: post #20

Tangentially related - I wrote a C library for spotify's web api: https://gitlab.com/finnoleary/spotifyc I've been working on the cli client and shuffling things about directory wise so I don't think it compiles anymore atm. But the library works fine. Actually in retrospect I think I might revert and splt them into separate repos...

Must've been a lot of work. I considered writing a library for the Web API in Swift, but there's just too much maintenance. There were also some weird bugs I encountered when parsing JSON like the time stamps being in the wrong format.

Yeah. I just leave the json parsing up to the caller partly as a simplification, but also because I might accidentally discard data they want (Like, ideally that should never happen but our world is not ideal). The only thing it wraps is the authentication (to make life easier), and the web request. The C code is generated from a small python script that's generated directly from the documentation so it's relatively easy to keep up-to-date, the sacrifice is it is a bit more fragile than I like.

Re: Open-Source Spotify App

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Post by dannyw » Tue, Dec 24, 2019, 3:55 AM UTC

alpb wrote: post #61

bransonf wrote: post #2

This is an iOS app, but if it isn’t what you were hoping for, check out these other projects. A CLI UI for Spotify [0] Spotify as a daemon [1] [0] https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui [1] https://github.com/Spotifyd/spotifyd

Does anyone know why Spotify doesn’t pursue name rights or DMCA takedowns in all these OSS projects, as they reverse engineer and use Spotify’s name? Snapchat practices DMCA/copyright for a lot for these sort of projects.

"Laws can definitely help, but it doesn't take away the problem. The only way to solve the problem was to create a service that was better than piracy and at the same time compensates the music industry – that gave us Spotify."

- Daniel Ek (Spotify co-founder)

Re: Open-Source Spotify App

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Post by dehrmann » Tue, Dec 24, 2019, 4:00 AM UTC

airstrike wrote: post #60

dehrmann wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's also Spotiamp. Not sure if it it still works.

IIRC The name got wrongly mixed up with some people hacking the Spotify API to boost their songs' play count and I think the project ultimately died because of that rep A truly tragic loss IMHO

Found this: https://web.archive.org/web/20150412135856/http://news.spoti...

Re: Open-Source Spotify App

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Post by flanbiscuit » Tue, Dec 24, 2019, 4:02 AM UTC

alpb wrote: post #61

bransonf wrote: post #2

This is an iOS app, but if it isn’t what you were hoping for, check out these other projects. A CLI UI for Spotify [0] Spotify as a daemon [1] [0] https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui [1] https://github.com/Spotifyd/spotifyd

Does anyone know why Spotify doesn’t pursue name rights or DMCA takedowns in all these OSS projects, as they reverse engineer and use Spotify’s name? Snapchat practices DMCA/copyright for a lot for these sort of projects.

They seem to have a pretty open api so I'm not sure there's actually any reverse engineering going on. They even allow you to build an app that streams audio in sync with the Spotify app. So it doesn't look they are violating anything in terms of functionality. They might be forced to change their name though (just guessing)

https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/

https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/ios/

Re: Open-Source Spotify App

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Post by nsomaru » Tue, Dec 24, 2019, 4:15 AM UTC

OT: does anyone know why an existing playlist would suddenly become something comepletwly different?

I used to listen to a Carnatic Classical playlist (Here’s a playlist for you… Carnatic Classical by Spotify https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DWZqTcNLmb3sH?si=...) and now it’s just changed to something completely different. Honestly this made me want to leave!