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by PhilipTrauner 1526 days ago
Neat, but I seriously hope that it doesn’t become popular enough to force Spotify to combat client reimplementations such as librespot, which this is based on.
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Also Mopidy, which lets you use Spotify from any MPD client.

I suspect that secretly there are some people at Spotify who are sympathetic to open source and/or use Linux, and have convinced the business people and bean counters that not being openly hostile to free software is good business.

I have mixed feeling about Spotify in general, but it's still not as "closed" of a platform as it could be, and I'm at least a little bit happy about that.