{"id":30421,"date":"2020-10-12T15:56:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T19:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=30421"},"modified":"2020-10-22T15:06:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T19:06:31","slug":"spotify-not-playing-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/12\/spotify-not-playing-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify Not Playing Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"

SongShift Team<\/a> (also: MacRumors<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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The Spotify Developer Platform Team reached out and let us know we’d need to remove transferring from their service to a competing music service or have our API access revoked due to TOS violation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Spotify only wants you to use the API to import, not to export. The mixlib<\/a> app is also affected (via Olivier Simard-Casanova<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n

Even putting aside that this sort of API restriction is bad for customers, you’d think that Spotify would have its eye on the bigger picture of not undermining its argument about fairness.<\/p>\n\n

Jason Snell<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Spotify hates how Apple tends its own ecosystem, but it has zero interest in allowing its customers to migrate metadata in any way that might make it more convenient to leave Spotify behind. That’s their decision to make, of course, but for a company that claims to support consumer freedom, it has just made a hypocritical decision designed to reduce the freedom of its own customers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n