Re: Emms and the Spotify Search API

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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  > 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.

In practical terms, what is the use of searching the Spotify music
database?  What specific next steps would it enable a user to do?

Is there a useful next step that can be done without nonfree software?
Please correct me if there is one, but I tend to think the answer is no.

  > 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.

If the feature to search the database has only one use, and that is to
follow it up by accessing the database using Spotify's DRM-afflicting
client software, then the search feature would be tantamount to
endorsing that software.

But if the search feature is useful in some other ways, then depending
on what those other ways are, perhaps the conclusion would be otherwise.




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