18 stories tagged spotify, newest first.
74 points by wuemeli | 33 comments
Blog post describing reverse engineering the Hitster board game's Android app to decrypt its card-to-song database, which turned out to be publicly available unencrypted.
61 points by LargeModGames | 10 comments
GitHub repository for spotatui, a Rust terminal and desktop Spotify client that uses librespot and internal APIs, plus other sources like YouTube, Subsonic and radio.
169 points by cdrnsf | 259 comments
The Quietus news article reporting that Michael Smith was sentenced to 18 months in prison and must forfeit $8 million for bot-farming music streams.
440 points by simonpure | 236 comments
Transcript of This American Life episode 897, whose prologue describes kids using comments on a low-traffic NPR show on Spotify as a secret group chat.
323 points by honestlyranked | 282 comments
A guide comparing US prices of nine flagship streaming subscriptions in March 2021 versus today, showing a 61% rise totaling $702 more per year.
792 points by nreece | 524 comments
Landing page for Fastpotify, a lightweight native Spotify client for Linux, macOS, and Windows with local playback, library access, and Spotify Connect controls.
392 points by askl | 395 comments
TorrentFreak article reporting Spotify and major labels won a $322M default judgment and domain-suspension injunction against Anna's Archive operators.
334 points by ingve | 261 comments
Charles Petzold blog post criticizing Spotify's AI DJ music search feature for behaving stupidly and questioning who is responsible for AI failures.
1656 points by vitplister | 551 comments
Anna's Archive blog post announcing a ~300TB torrent backup of Spotify metadata and music files, including 256 million tracks and 86 million audio files.
414 points by coppolaemilio | 437 comments
A personal blog post by Emi describing leaving Spotify and using self-hosted Jellyfin as a music streaming alternative.
548 points by greenie_beans | 362 comments
Harper's Magazine report by Liz Pelly on Spotify's use of ghost artists and how the platform works against musicians.
680 points by sjdonado | 345 comments
GitHub repository for I Don't Have Spotify, an open-source web tool that converts Spotify links to equivalent links on other streaming services.
435 points by nopakos | 472 comments
Reuters article on the EU fining Apple over 1.8 billion euros in an antitrust case brought by Spotify over music streaming app rules; page shows a captcha.
317 points by Raed667 | 368 comments
A personal blog post recounting why the author, a longtime Spotify fan from Tunisia, decided to cancel their Spotify subscription.
726 points by keepamovin | 592 comments
GitHub repository for Spotube, an open-source Flutter Spotify client for desktop and mobile that streams via YouTube without requiring Premium or Electron.
517 points by filleokus | 1022 comments
Spotify newsroom post by CEO Daniel Ek announcing December 2023 organizational changes, including a roughly 17% reduction in total headcount.
425 points by thunderbong | 223 comments
TechCrunch article reporting Google's admission that Spotify pays no Google Play Store fees under a secret deal, revealed during the Epic v. Google trial.
463 points by cdme | 353 comments
Blog post by Cory Dransfeldt arguing he wants to stream his own collected music library rather than use catalogue-based streaming services.