Unfortunately 22tracks have decided to change their way of working a bit. They will still be offering curated playlist, but no longer upload and stream the songs directly from their own servers. Instead they will use existing streaming services such as Spotify. You can read the official announcement on the 'blog' (https://blog.22tracks.com/22tracks-is-going-global-74986817457#.9cj1z0tse).
In an 'interview (Dutch)' (http://3voor12.vpro.nl/nieuws/2016/Amsterdam-Dance-Event/22tracks-gooit-het-roer-rigoureus-om.html) one of the founders said that the reason behind this change is that they have a lot of trouble getting permission to upload music to their own servers, and stream it without any security or DRM. And whilst the marketing departments of record labels love them for offering new music to customers, the legal departments were not so pleased with 22tracks. One way around this is making use of existing streaming services such as Spotify, were all the legal hassle is already taken care of. Whilst I like Spotify as a streaming service, I do think it is a shame that services such as 22tracks are (almost) forced to work with them, creating a monopoly over time. So I guess this will be the end of this plugin. If you liked 22tracks, the best thing to do is to follow them on Spotify, and browse the playlist using the official Spotify plugin for the Squeezebox. It is too bad that this plugin has such a short lifespan. My patch: 'Reduce brightness when screen saver is active' (http://server.vijge.net/squeezebox/) for Touch Source code: 'GitHub' (https://github.com/danielvijge) for SqueezeCloud, Mixcloud, 22tracks and YouTube (old version) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 505's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=44967 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105232 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
