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by imglorp 2074 days ago
The service in question from OP is not using Spotify's API so no license applied. It sounds like they're automating/scraping, which in the US at least, was just ruled legal.[1] Of course, that puts scraper and scrapee into a leapfrog contest.

As OP points out, the best defense against customers leaving is to actually listen to them and please them. In this area, while Spotify might have a giant catalog, they are blatantly tormenting users by removing obvious, simple, features demanded by the thousands of votes on their forum.

1. https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2019/09/10/linke...