Hacker News Reader

I would care more if there weren't so much hypocrisy going around.

Spotify doesn't allow me to replace their payment processor with my own or provide a full API to allow me to build a fully-fledged thirty party client.

View on HN

Why would Spotify allow you to replace payment processor? App developers make this complaint about Apple and Google because the App devs are actually selling something. In this case you are buying a service from Spotify. It literally makes no sense in this case.

What API do you see missing from developer.spotify.net?

I can't build:

a) hardware devices with Spotify capabilities without their approval.

b) third party clients since I don't have access to full streams, record-label level of information on artists, songs etc.

Both are limitations from contractual obligations with music labels that don't allow full streams to be shared as well as most of the record-label level of metadata. It's not Spotify's fault.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com