I'm posting this here as well in case people want to weigh-in and are not on emacs-devel:
---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Yoni Rabkin <[email protected]> Subject: Emms and the Spotify Search API To: emacs-devel <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2024 11:26:35 -0400 (2 minutes, 24 seconds ago) Hello all, I'm the current maintainer of Emms. We are adding to Emms the ability to search online music databases. There is already some support for the MusicBrainz database (https://musicbrainz.org/) and support for the Discogs (https://www.discogs.com/) search API will not be far behind. Spotify distribute their streaming music client, which is a very popular piece of proprietary software. But Spotify also provide an API to search their music database. To be clear: I'm not considering streaming from Spotify via Emms. I'm only considering whether to support the Spotify music database search API in Emms. What I'd like feedback on is whether or not adding support for search on Spotify's music database would be tantamount to supporting or encouraging people to use Spotify's proprietary streaming client and services. Thank you in advance for your input. P.S. I've yet to read Spotify's developer agreement. Perhaps there will be a clause in there that effectively prohibits developing free software that connects to the Spotify search API, and perhaps not. I don't have that information yet. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"
