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by johanvts 29 days ago
Music apps especially went downhill, spotify and tidal etc need to offer apis so we can integrate several sources in one app. They used to offer much more. I was able to import my library into spotify once (thoigh it could only hold 10k item back then). I want all my music in one place, not 4 apps
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They don't offer APIs precisely so that you can't integrate several sources in one app.
I have Gonic (a subsonic server) on my home server and my client is a perl script. It basically allows me to search for an album, present a prompt for me to select the best match, and then builds up a playlist for the tracks to pass to MPV. That’s pretty much all I ever need. I would gladly dump the whole spotify client if they had an API to do the same (even if the queue is a long stream of data instead of tracks).