Spotify or Spotify HiFi in Roon [spotify will not allow this]

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Spotify support - same as Tidal

100% agreed @evanw – but Spotify has actively shut us down. They’ve pretty much shut down everyone post-Spotify Connect (except Sonos, which they can’t afford to lose). We do have working integrations with Deezer and Rhapsody, but because they didn’t give us their backend databases, the integrations feel like a bolt on, because we can’t match up the content on their network to content on your hard drives.

Spotify Hi-Fi launch imminent

They refused to let us release. They were giving us OKs and thumbs up for months, but after seeing a working integration, they pulled the plug and said we can not release what we had. They insisted that their customers not leave their own Spotify app. Their reasoning was that it was an important aspect of their business that they own the user experience. Given that our entire value proposition is an alternative user experience, you can see how this led to them rejecting us. It’s been a while …

Spotify or Spotify HiFi in Roon [spotify will not allow this]

The open libraries are only open for non-commercial products, and they are deprecated and unsupported. but using this API would also result in a very lame integration.