Spotify integration / update on this?

[jan_novak]

hello
why there is no intent/initiative to integrate Spotify even user accepts the lower streaming quality?

there is no better discovery alg so far… so why there is no action regarding the integration or is it some policy issue?

[Geoff_Coupe]

Please look through the forum; there has been plenty of discussion about this. Bottom line, Spotify aren’t interested in an integration with Roon.

[jan_novak]

@Geoff_Coupe i thought they expose some API so it can be integrated even w/out their cooperation.
they plan hd stream… so its weird… that there is no such interest.

[Geoff_Coupe]

If you read the discussion, you would have read that API access is not sufficient for what Roon Labs require for a seamless integration of a streaming service into Roon. It takes two to tango, and Spotify are not interested in dancing with Roon Labs.

[jan_novak]

@Geoff_Coupe

seamless integration of a streaming service into Roon.

sometimes not everything is a seamless

[garym]

Watch last 8 minutes of this. Straight from Roon owner/executive.

Everything You Want to Know about the Roon Music Player

[Carl]

@jan_novak

I thought they expose some API so it can be integrated even w/out their cooperation.

See

Feature / brainstorm: Spotify Web API integration - what could go wrong?

Hi @Johnny_Ooooops , Setting the potential business problems mentioned above aside… We tried this as a thought experiment a little while back. What would lightweight, API-based streaming service integrations look like? Our conclusion was that we would end up with “mini-apps” inside of Roon that didn’t really integrate into the core experience very much. They might provide an adequate experience in some peoples’ view. Maybe, as you pointed out, we would do something special to try and unify th…