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I was under the impression that using Spotify's APIs in a commercial project required an agreement with them, presumably that costs money. Have you investigated that or will you have to drop the Spotify aspect if/when you start taking money?

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I've applied for a commercial Spotify API key. They let you start using it right away. I haven't heard back from them (it's been a couple weeks). It's possible they'll decide not to approve my use case, in which case I'd have to drop spotify support.

I think they mainly want to prevent people from competing with them; I'm not sure if they care too much about charging you money for it (I guess they probably would if you were making a lot of money).

Also, thanks for your work on Mopidy!

Good luck with that! I've been hoping to see Spotify support for streaming or searching or casting to a roodready endpoint but Spotify has not been helpful.

Thanks! Do you have a link for what roodready is? I did a quick search but didn't find anything.

Spelling mistake on my part. I meant "Roon Ready", its a standard that the company Roonlabs created for their streaming solution. I personally use Roon at home as I got tired of losing access to music I loved when Spotify changed contracts.

I still subscribe to Spotify but for anything I love I buy the vinyl/flac copy and store it on my Roon server at home.

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