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I'd love winamp as I remember it to be a client for Google Music, as their app is heavy and very bad ux. Spotify isn't very good either, but Google Music allows me to upload missing mp3's to keep my library full and for that feature I am ready to sacrifice a lot of convenience

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Oh, of course I don't believe in Google music/Spotify/iTunes proving an API for winamp.

Reverse engineering is possible here, but will result in ban/lawsuit after it gains some traction.

How they're gonna do that then? No idea.

Still I dream about alternative client every say

Spotify has a playback SDK[0]. It's meant for web use, but it could probably be used to create a custom native player. You'd just need to have a webview somewhere.

[0]: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-playback-sdk...

IIRC this is used by Clementine, a QT-based desktop player.

They used to have a C library called libspotify that they quietly stopped supporting and later killed off.

https://jonaslundqvist.net/2015/05/06/do-not-use-libspotify/

There's an oss alternative called librespot https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot

Thanks, I didn't know that existed.

Apple Music also has a player SDK via MusicKit if I understand it correctly. Some people already build third party players and web interfaces.

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