That's a very long list. The API is now basically useless.
replyMusic should not be centralized.
replyCool, feel free to create a website that does as much as lists track names and let me know how long will you survive before your hosting provider gets flooded with bullshit DMCA notices and shuts you down.
replyI'm not talking about downloading music, I'm not even talking about some custom player for reproducing music, I'm talking about just putting say a list of songs from a playlist as plain text online.
You responded with why it isn't decentralized, not why it shouldn't be decentralized.
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replyIt's centralized because there's a few big labels that own a lot...but otherwise it's such a commodity that you can go to any streaming service and you more or less have the same catalog.
replyForced?
replyAnna's Archive went public with their announcement late December, Spotify started communicating this API lockdown mid-January. I have no evidence to back that up, but judging purely by the timing, it sure seems like these two events are connected and something Spotify did reluctantly to appease the big labels.
replyYep, the API is now basically useless and you can't use it in production. All because of some anonymous greedy dickheads.
replyGet the metadata from Anna. At least now it's freely available.
replyAlso it's unfair to call Anna greedy. There can't be much money in giving stuff away for free.
Yes stealing other peoples things to 'give them away' is very noble. The meta data is useless to me. I can no longer build an app on top of Spotify's API because they've had to lock it down.
replyHave you considered blaming Spotify or the music industry instead for how ridiculously closed the entire system is?
reply$10 a month for all the music every recorded. Free with ads. How much more open can they make it?
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replyI really hate people using terms like "theft" or "piracy" to refer to the act of artificially-limited copying. Copying something does not take anything away from the person you're copying from inherently. Theft does. And piracy is like theft, but with murder and kidnapping too.
replyDo you mean the stock holders of the major labels?
replyNo the artists.
replyThat's what happens when people abuse a public good.
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