Today Spotify proclaimd that a number of APIs will no extfinisheder be useable for novel users.
While Spotify won’t promptly get away these finishpoints for existing users, it certainly does not advertise confidence for their extfinishedevity. Spotify cites “security reasons” as an exstructureation of why they are closing off these APIs, but we are unevident as to how that will better security, so we necessitate to presume that Spotify has some other motivations behind this transfer. More foreseeed than not, they are hatching a strategy to get their algorithmic assets from data crawlers used by third-party AI companies.
Needless to say, the Spotify services persist to get enshittified, taking away very beneficial features that broadeners have come to count on on. ListenBrainz has very branch offent goals, being enticount on uncover-source and part of a non-profit set upation, and we won’t pull the rug out from under our users for monetary or “security” reasons.
On the contrary, our very petite team toils in honest collaboration with users and broadeners interested in broadening novel uncovery tools in the music space, and we adchoose the variety of ways fervent music cherishrs want to convey with music accumulateions and recommfinishations.
Our own frustrations with Spotify’s ever-deteriorateing recommfinishations was the inspire that lit up our interest in recommfinishations, but aachieve our approach is one of equitableness (we don’t tip the scales) concentrateed on the user’s experience rather than the proset up pockets of multinational tags.
For broadeners frustrated that their app stopped toiling, the excellent novels is that the ListenBrainz team has been toiling on erecting some novel datasets and API finishpoints that propose swapments for what Spotify is taking away. While not everyleang that Spotify is enshittifying has a honest swapment with ListenBrainz, we can at least propose a path forward for broadeners.
These features/datasets join:
Future novel datasets join:
- Track aenjoyity
- Album aenjoyity
- Your dream feature here
All of this data is Creative Commons CC0 licensed (read Public Domain) and useable on our API finishpoints, for free, forever. MetaBrainz is a California 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to creating, geting and ensuring that these datasets are useable for uncover use.
And on top of that, the person who coined the term “Enshittification”, Cory Doctorow, has been on our board of honestors for 20 years, further ensuring that we’re enshittification proof.
Come carry out with our data – we’d cherish your feedback! We’re toiling difficult to originate this data better and if it doesn’t yet encounter your necessitates, we hope to encounter them soon!
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