Will there ever be a libspotify replacement ?

[Thalhammer1]

Hi,

In the beginning, you provided libspotify API which was really useful and is the main reason why I choose Spotify over other streaming services.

However, libspotify is not supported since years and it contains a lot of bugs.

In addition, it has been deprecated years ago and we are told there will be a replacement for many years.

It seems there is nothing done about the situation except for periodic updating of the date when there will be a replacement and breaking existing devices using libspotify by shutting down parts of its server side.

Will there ever be a replacement?

Why not just make a documentation for the API used by the webplayer?

When will the existing libspotify get shut down, "later this year" is not really useful.

I really like Spotify and would really appreciate any response.

Sincerely Thalhammer

[nativedev]

I would like to echo this question. Spotify has immense potential as a platform for third party developers, being the only music subscription service to provide playback capabilities. It would be truly unfortunate if that portion of libspotify never gets a modern, supported replacement, but if that is how it has to be, some frankness about the state of things on Spotify's part would be appreciated.

[rolfbsb]

Is there any progress on this?

[Bongoernem]

Apperantly Spotify care is as dead as the api we are asking for....