Mnyb wrote: > As avsked can we use individual keys ? > No, their licensing explicitly says "Don't register for multiple API keys in an attempt to cirumvent rate limits." Of course, if the plugin will be open source, you can always edit the code and change the API key to your own which isn't shared with other users. Just be aware of that TEN might not like this so it's probably not a good solution if a lot of users starts to do this.
Mnyb wrote: > > Or if get more than 1000 users , could some kind of subscription model > be worked out ? > Understands that the echo nest serves clients with millions of users and > may have scaled thier pricing accordingly :/ > It needs to be discussed with TEN, as I've understood they have no problem to increase this limit for commercial API keys, so it's just a matter if people would be interested to pay for it. A free beta limited to first 1000 registered users would probably be a good start and then take a discussion with TEN if the limitation of 1000 users becomes a problem. I suspect TEN probably wouldn't want to handle payments from individual users, so the plugin developer would probably have to handle payments from individual users, mainly because TEN probably doesn't want to handle a lot of small payments and support individual users as this requires a bit of work. It wouldn't surprise me if the current MusicIP integration have less than 1000 users. Generally it's only a very small percentage of the total Squeezebox user group that use third party plugins. If the plugin is commercial and costs money to use, the number of users prepared to use it is significantly less than for a free plugin. For reference, the SQL Playlist plugin (which is also related to smart playlists) have around 1000 users today. So to sum it up, I wouldn't worry to much about the limitation to 1000 users at this stage of the project. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96191 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
