If better DRM becomes the only solution, everyone loses. In order for Spotify to have any decent user experience, they need to nip any DRM bypass as scale in the bud before the publishers find out, through cease and desist or worse.

If they agree, their users would have a terrible experience, only being able to play some songs on some devices. If Spotify would refuse to budge, their platform would lose access to a lot of songs. That would lock out any devices incapable of receiving DRM updates, but it's certainly a possibility.

Music publishers could demand better DRM in their contracts, though. Admittedly it doesn’t scale anywhere near as good as automatically stripping DRM though. You can play the song on your computer or your phone and take the analog signal that is going to the speakers and digitize it again and make an imperfect but still good copy of any audio. So at least as of yet I think they would hurt people with official clients more than they would hurt anyone using an unofficial client.Īnd even people using unofficial clients are probably paying customers.īesides what’s the point anyways, everyone knows that if you really really want to rip audio you don’t need to circumvent any DRM at all. And the DRM scheme, at least as of yet, would be defeated by the reverse engineers as DRM always is. But for regular people, they are not going to do that. How do you update a receiver for example? Well, you might be able to flash a new firmware with a USB stick. See īasically they’d have to break a lot of official clients, many of which probably cannot be updated, if they were to change their DRM scheme. Spotify Connect works by having these other devices streaming and playing the media, and your computer or phone acting as a “remote” for choosing the songs to be played. And even a lot of stereo systems have Spotify Connect built into them. There’s official Spotify clients on almost every platform imaginable. The OP project is speaking to Spotify servers through the same means that official clients are, but the official clients are not just on iOS, Android, macOS and Windows. Is that even possible for Spotify at this point?

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