New developments for Spotify?

[danny (Danny Dulai)]

@Groene

Spotify allows for third-party control and reading and changing of their database. In fact they’ve made this very easy to do… Have a look here https://developer.spotify.com/

https://developer.spotify.com/legal/general-restrictions/#:~:text=Commercial%20use%3A%20Making%20commercial%20use,of%20Spotify%20and%20its%20partners.

Commercial use: Making commercial use of the Spotify platform is not allowed, unless you have the specific written permission of Spotify and its partners.

@Greg_Hicks

Sonos can stream 100s of streaming services including […] Spotify.

Sonos and Tesla are the two big exceptions. The Sonos integration is old and at a time when Spotify needed Sonos. My guess is the executives just wanted spotify in their Teslas.

@Greg_Hicks

You can also completely control Spotify through Alexa

Alexa integration is written by Spotify. It is Spotify that supports Alexa, not the other way around.

@Groene

Is Roon willing to add support for Spotify? I say not

Absolutely we would be.

@Groene

Even the free Volumio project has Spotify fully supported

Again, not commercial.

@garym

Logitech Media Server (Squeezebox) has worked with Spotify for a long time. In fact, the recently released LMS ver 8.0 allows for integration of Spotify and Tidal into the user’s music library. (Sort of like what Roon does except on a very basic level.

Again, not commercial. Notice a pattern?

And before anyone asks if we’ve asked: we have and we were strung along for a long time until they finally gave us a clear answer of no, along with their reasoning that they want to own the user experience, and that’s in conflict with letting us own the user experience.