Spotify was also forced to remove 60 or so endpoints from their API: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/referenc...

...and add a bunch of other restrictions like limiting API access to premium users, ludicrously increasing the cap for acceptance into the extended quota programme (250k MAU), and so on and so on.

So the most fucked in this situation are neither Spotify nor Anna's Archive, but anyone trying to build anything on top of what was up until this point the most straightforward to use API in the music industry, which annoys me to no end.

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gloflo 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Music should not be centralized.

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input_sh 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Cool, 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.

I'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.

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dewey 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It'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.

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chakintosh 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That's a very long list. The API is now basically useless.

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driverdan 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Forced?

	▲	input_sh 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Anna'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.

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basisword 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yep, the API is now basically useless and you can't use it in production. All because of some anonymous greedy dickheads.

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MarsIronPI 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Get the metadata from Anna. At least now it's freely available.

Also it's unfair to call Anna greedy. There can't be much money in giving stuff away for free.

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basisword an hour ago | parent [-]

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.

	▲	ricardobeat an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Have you considered blaming Spotify or the music industry instead for how ridiculously closed the entire system is?
	▲	MarsIronPI an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I 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.

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master-lincoln 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Do you mean the stock holders of the major labels?

	▲	basisword an hour ago \| parent [-]
		No the artists.

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cm2012 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That's what happens when people abuse a public good.