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by Retr0id 175 days ago
You are correct
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nsteel 174 days ago
I believe that changed recently and Spotify started blocking the key requests from free accounts.
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Retr0id 173 days ago
Then how do people with free accounts listen to music lol

(It is plausible they added some new DRM but it's not going to be anything too crazy)

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nsteel 172 days ago
Their official clients have moved over to playplay DRM protection for non-lossless files too. The old key endpoints no longer work for free accounts, they must have added a server-side check.
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