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Why did you release an open source Spotify client?
While Spotify is totally awesome, it currently only runs on Windows and Mac OS X (and Linux, if you can live with WINE).
We wanted to be able to use Spotify in more operating systems and in more products. Let's just agree on the fact that it would be awesome if your random open source media center solution could do Spotify too!
How long will it take before Spotify blocks your code?
We hope this does not trigger panic reactions at Spotify and that they can find a way to support our cause.
For a number of reasons, it will probably take us (or anyone else up for the challenge) less time to workaround whatever fix they attempt, than for them to roll out a new release.
For a number of reasons, it will probably take us (or anyone else up for the challenge) less time to workaround whatever fix they attempt, than for them to roll out a new release.
We strongly believe Spotify need to support people like us. People that have the time and energy to experiment with new ideas and to develop new tools and services. We don't want to be held back by a company whose key priority is to make money.
Unless they haven't already, they will realize it's pointless to try to prevent hundreds of talented researchers, coders, hackers and curious users from tinkering with their product. The gaming industry, as well as both software and hardware manufacturers, have been trying to do exactly that for the last 20 years, and most have failed.To this date, the Sony PS3 is the only gaming console out there that has not been cracked. Why?
Likely because Sony decided to open up the platform right from the start, enabling console owners to do anything - from gaming to networking them to break SSL.
Likely because Sony decided to open up the platform right from the start, enabling console owners to do anything - from gaming to networking them to break SSL.
Obviously the only solution for Spotify is to open up their platform and still make money from it. One such possibility would be to officially open up their platform for third party products, but only allow premium subscribers to make use of the open API. But that's not for us to decide.
This is going to destroy Spotify!
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That's the kind of groundless panic reaction we were talking about earlier.
Spotify won't go away over night and, if anything, our project is nothing but a minor speedbump.
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Relax and consider why Spotify rocks for a while. Done?
If you're still seeing problems - or solutions to these imaginary problems, repeat the above procedure.
If you're still seeing problems - or solutions to these imaginary problems, repeat the above procedure.
This code will ultimately allow people to download music from Spotify!
First of all, people download music anyway. That's just the way it works, be it legal or not.
Live with it.
Live with it.
Secondly, there are far better places to download music from (with better quality!) than Spotify. Downloding/Ripping music from Spotify is just as illegal as anywhere else, the main difference is that the bitrate/soundquality is lower in the music ripped from Spotify.
That being said, please don't use our software to cause problems for Spotify!
A lot of people love this excellent service, and are willing to pay for it, us included.
A lot of people love this excellent service, and are willing to pay for it, us included.
Why not make the music decryption routine binary only?
We thought about doing just that, to prevent people from using this code to download music from Spotify, but decided against it.
By definition, that would mean we couldn't call our code free or open source. It would also require us to compile the code for all the platforms people would like to use , which defeats the whole purpose of this project.
In the end it would leave us in the same position as Spotify, i.e. it would only be a matter of time before someone figured things out anyway.
Error code 6 is usually resolved by installing Spotify in safe mode instead of the regular way. You can do so following these steps: Shutdown your PC and then restart it in Safe Mode (hit the F8 key repeatedly during the boot up process then select Safe Mode from the menu that appears). Just like everyone else, my spotify application in PC is not working with eror code 4 (no internet connection). I have tried log in with facebook, uninstall reinstall, reinstall without uninstall, HTTP as proxy, even i tried everything as a proxy and still not working. And now i cant even logged in because no internet connection so i have to use my iOS application. Spotify error code 6 mac. I've installed Microsoft Edge on my mac for education. After installing the Edge on Mac, one main issue I've notice once Edge open see error message. Find out how to set up and use Spotify. Learn about features, troubleshoot issues, and get answers to questions. Everything you need to stay in tune. Spotify is a digital music service that gives you access to millions of songs. Spotify is all the music you’ll ever need. Skip to content. Spotify Click the install file to finish up. If your download didn't start, try again. Bring your music to mobile and tablet, too.
Can I use Despotify with my 'Free' account?
We see a number of problems with providing an open source client for non-paying users and hence this implementation does not support it out of the box. Sorry!
Consider buying a daypass or upgrading to a premium account to support not only Spotify, but also despotify's cause of opening up their service to their paying (i.e, loyal) user base.
Can I use your code to skip the ads?
We have not implemented support for ads since its pointless in an open source client. Patching away the ad-routine is just too simple. We strongly believe that you should pay for the premium serviceif you want to use the open source client.
Does your software impose the country restrictions?
No. So called Geographic Rights Management is just stupid and client side restrictions in open source software is silly. The movie industry already proved how insane and futile this is by region coding DVDs. If you want (optional) GRM support, feel free to submit a patch. :)
How much bandwidth does the client need?
This question has so far gone unanswered in Spotify's corner at GetSatisfaction.com.
You'll need somewhere around 250-300kbit/s (~25-30 kbyte/s) downstream to be able to play music without interruption. The upstream requirements are neglible since we do not support P2P.
Why is there no support for P2P?
Even though supporting P2P would be good for Spotify and most users (except in some mobile environments), it isn't essential for playing music from their service.
We do have some demo code that does P2P authentication, peer exchange and basic file transfers but so far none of us have had time or interest in implementing it properly in the main client.
For now we've decided to focus on delivering an open source alternative that does the basic stuff you'll need, and P2P was not one of them. Maybe in v2.0 ;)
(everything needs a 2.0 version with new features, eyecandy and all bugs and annoyances gone!)
For now we've decided to focus on delivering an open source alternative that does the basic stuff you'll need, and P2P was not one of them. Maybe in v2.0 ;)
(everything needs a 2.0 version with new features, eyecandy and all bugs and annoyances gone!)
What license is Despotify under?
We've choosen a two-clause BSD license. We're serious about making Despotify available to everyone, including those who don't believe in open source.
If the two-clause BSD license doesn't cut it for you, let us know and we'll work something out.
If the two-clause BSD license doesn't cut it for you, let us know and we'll work something out.
Supported operating systems
Most of the code will compile without complaints on any POSIX and ANSI C compatible platform.
As of now the audio routines supports CoreAudio for Mac OS X and PulseAudio that in turn supports:
As of now the audio routines supports CoreAudio for Mac OS X and PulseAudio that in turn supports:
- Linux
- Solaris
- FreeBSD
- NetBSD
- Windows
What about iPhone, WindowsMobile, XBMC or my dishwasher?
The beauty of open source is that it's now possible to integrate Spotify support into anythingcapable of decoding ogg and playing sound. Feel free to port our code to whatever media platform fits your lifestyle!
This software relies on OpenSSL for encryption, something that might not be available or suitable for your platform of choice. As an alternative you might consider another free, open source building block like libtommath to do the crypto.
Is there any documentation on Spotify's protocol?
We gave a law firm a few hours (see, we're already back a few thousand SEK :/) to investigate the legal aspects of this project before going public.
They recommended against releasing any documentation on Spotify's internals.
They recommended against releasing any documentation on Spotify's internals.
Hence we won't provide you with any ordinary documentation on whatever we may know. For now, provided that you've got some basic understanding of code, you may want to checkout the source code of despotify to see how things work.
I've found a bug or have a patch!
Contact us and we'll look into it.
What's with the name?
We don't believe that anyone should control music in the way despots control their countries.
We love both music and free software!
We love both music and free software!
How can I get in touch with you?
Use electronic mail. Try despotify at gmail.com.
Assume no privacy.
Assume no privacy.
You can also try #despotify on EFNet if you prefer IRC.
Who are you?
We are a group of loosely related Swedish computer science researchers, security professionals and geeks that believe strongly in the right to tinker with technology. Because there is money involved and because Spotify has connections to the music industry we won't announce our identities at this time.
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Spotify recently notified its users about a possible information leak (updated).
An unknown group, who was later identified in an interview with Spotify's CEO as being the despotify team, could have compromised the security and privacy of individual user accounts.
Several news sites wrote articles about the incident, most of them not comprehending what really happened despite Spotify's detailed blog posts on the matter. UK The Guardian initially named us computer criminals and many Swedish news sites falsely reported that someone had broken into Spotify and had stolen a lot of passwords and details about their users (Swedish: here, here, and here). That's not what happened.
So what really happened?
While auditing Spotify's software back in November 2008 we monitored data the Spotify client exchanged with the server and things it processed internally.
It turned out that whenever you added someone else's shared playlist, the Spotify client software would request information from Spotify's servers about the author of that playlist.
The information returned contained things like a hash (based on a salt and the user's password), date of birth, city and other things that Spotify knew about this user.
The information returned contained things like a hash (based on a salt and the user's password), date of birth, city and other things that Spotify knew about this user.
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We realized that the password hash that was transfered to the client when you added someone else's playlist, could be used as a way of autenticating to the server as the owner of the playlist, without knowing his or her password. That was bad.
A few days before Spotify finally stopped relaying the password hash (and some other unnecessary information) we realized that this hash actually was a SHA-1 hash over a 10 character salt, a space character, and the user's password.
Since we by this time both knew the resulting hash value and part of the message that was hashed (i.e, salt and the space character), we now had everything we needed to successfully brute force the original password.
Since we by this time both knew the resulting hash value and part of the message that was hashed (i.e, salt and the space character), we now had everything we needed to successfully brute force the original password.
During the 18th of December 2008, Spotify removed parts of the information that was returned to the client when it asked for a user's details, notably the password hash.
For us, that meant that the possibility to steal a lot of password hashes now was gone.
For us, that meant that the possibility to steal a lot of password hashes now was gone.
In fact, we were left with previously requested information (stored for research purposes) for approximately 40 different users. These users were mostly people whose playlists we were listening to. Others were employees of Spotify, because we thought it would be interesting to see if, and in that case how, employee's details differed from Joe Average's account.
On February 17th, 2009 we released despotify, our open source Spotify client.
It still had support for requesting details about a particular user's account, as is also shown in our video introduction. This information was made up of things like the account holder's email address, date of birth (YYYY-mm-dd), postal code and a few other not-interesting details.
It still had support for requesting details about a particular user's account, as is also shown in our video introduction. This information was made up of things like the account holder's email address, date of birth (YYYY-mm-dd), postal code and a few other not-interesting details.
Hours after making despotify public, Spotify realized the privacy issues involved and stopped leaking the above mentioned information. Shortly afterwards, we also removed support for requesting that information (it didn't work anymore) from the despotify code in our Subversion repository.
On March 4th, 2009 Spotify posted information about these issues on their blog.
Am I at risk?
While we only got our hands on ~40 different user's details, there's still a risk that others also found the same issue that we did.
It's impossible to know for sure and hence full disclosure and notifying those that could be affected is required.
In other words, Spotify has responded to this issue in an exceptionally good way.
It's impossible to know for sure and hence full disclosure and notifying those that could be affected is required.
In other words, Spotify has responded to this issue in an exceptionally good way.
Why did you not report this issue to Spotify?
If we would have reported this, Spotify would have understood that there was people out there actively thinkering with the internals of their software.
We simply didn't want to risk jeopardizing the continued research we were doing by reporting the issue.
We simply didn't want to risk jeopardizing the continued research we were doing by reporting the issue.
So you didn't really hack into Spotify?
No. We did not hack into their servers and we certainly did not exploit a weakness in their web platform, as some media reports claim.
We've only used a feature already part of the communication protocol between the client and the server to obtain the data. Even the official client software (version 0.3.8 and before) did just this, although you could not request data for arbitrary users.
'The Streisand effect is a phenomenon on the Internet where an attempt to censor or remove a piece of information backfires, causing the information to be widely publicized.'
When the compressed music came out, people reckoned that it was only for some time, that the quality would improve. However, lossy music rapidly gained its admirers due to file's small size. It looked very appealing to be able to store thousands of songs no matter what the quality is. Sadly, compressed music was in favor for quite a while, at least, longer than it should have. As a consequence, musicians waste hours and days in studios re-recording what they think of, quantity has taken over quality and what appeared to be a bliss turned out to be evil.
Digital music streaming services is not a brand-new thing. The problem is that there’s so much music to discover and even though some services say they have some exclusives, most music collections are more or less similar, making possible over 30 million tracks for streaming.
Spotify doesn't need any kind of introduction. If you don't know what it is, you must be living in the Stone Age.
For those who still haven't googled, Spotify is a digital music streaming service that offers access to millions of songs, playlists, and podcasts from artists all over the world. It rapidly extended as a nice streaming service for several reasons:
- Free subscription with ads.
- Millions of tracks available.
- $9.99 / month .
- Supported in 60 countries.
It seemed like an outstanding service, but the world is now shifting towards Hi-Res music, and Spotify has no victory there. Today I will explain to you why Spotify is already in the past, Spotify Hi-Res is no Hi-Res and suggest a better alternative.
Spotify Sound Quality
Like the rest of music streaming services, Spotify uses compressed audio files so that you can stream and download music without pauses or interruptions. Streams are in OGG (Ogg Vorbis) at 96 kbps on mobile, 160 kbps for so-called 'High' quality on mobile and 320 kbps on mobile and computers for Premium subscribers. These digits are enough to refuse to use the service. If you reckon it makes no difference, you can check out the short-film The Distortion of Sound, where Slash, Snoop Dogg, Michael Shinoda, and the rest will explain in detail why compression is no good for 2017. The worst thing about compressed music is that loudness entirely predominates over the quality thus making the sound more ripped and not exactly what was recorded in a studio. Louder doesn't imply better music experience, and right now is the time we accept it.
Fortunately, there's a better alternative. VOX Music Player for Mac & iPhone plays most music formats including Hi-Res ones (FLAC, ALAC, WAV, etc.).
Spotify Hi-Res
There's been lots of hype around Spotify's announcement about the introduction of so-called Hi-Res Premium account. For extra $5-10 (it randomly varies from account to account) you are offered an opportunity to listen to CD quality at 44.1 KHz/16 bit frequency while real Hi-Res starts at 48 KHz/24 bit. Sure, CD quality is better than compressed OGG but is it worth it? I doubt. The only player able to support playback of such quality is VOX Music Player for Mac & iPhone, where you don't think about the quality because you know for sure what you've uploaded.
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Spotify should make it more comfortable to find songs because if there's at least one misspelled letter, it would be hard to find what you've been looking for. Another annoying feature is that you can't put the songs in any kind of order which makes it really challenging to find any song. If you are listening to an album, and then add songs one by one, what you eventually have is that exact album but with songs in reversed order. Storing music a bit pain in the ass, so you have to think in advance in what order you want them to be on your added music list.
As an alternative, VOX Music player has its own cloud storage called VOX Music Cloud Storage. It is a limitless cloud which has only one purpose – store all your Hi-Res library thus tackling the problem of Hi-Res file's size. It instantly syncs with you VOX account so you can enjoy the music you have on the cloud. Additional great feature is the option to download songs, which may be useful if you know for certain you won't be having any internet for some time.
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Spotify Radio
What Spotify calls Radio is actually just a set of pre-made playlists of different genres. It is also common that these playlists confuse some algorithms and you have EDM music playing on an Alternative channel. Discovering new music narrows down to Browse. It has dozens of playlists and to know how the playlists work there, read the next section.
For people who tend to explore new music with radio, VOX Music Player makes it possible to listen to more than 30,000 stations from all around the world. It appeals to any taste regardless of the genre or country. You will always find new music and be able to explore new genres with no problems.
Spotify Daily Mix
Playlists, as well as radio, focus on assisting people with exploring previously unknown artists. Spotify has millions of pre-created playlists starting from 'The Best of .. [band's name]' to Top-50 of a country you pick. Unfortunately, Your Daily Mix section is based on what you already have on your music list, so there's little chance to actually discover something new, local or underground. Another flaw of Spotify's playlist is that they usually offer most popular tracks of a particular genre or musician. For example, if you regularly listen to some trip-hop, you will most likely find Portishead, Tricky, Massive Attack and the rest of the genre bests on your Daily Mix.
VOX Player doesn't provide pre-made playlists since we believe playlists are very personal and private. Musicians usually spend hours in studios creating something unique not to be put in one line with hundreds of different artist just because someone decided they sounded alike.
Conclusion: Spotify + Hi-Res?
Streaming services have made their contribution to humanity, but it's high time we moved into the future, and it's all about Hi-Res music. We strongly encourage you to stop hurting your ears and choose the best alternative to Spotify for your iPhone. VOX Music Player has everything and more and can satisfy the needs of even the most demandable listeners.
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