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Spotify Update on Developer Access and Platform Security

6 points| hazzamanic | 7 days ago |developer.spotify.com

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retrodaredevil|3 days ago

The big news here is that you now need a premium subscription to use any of Spotify's APIs. This means that if you wish to use Spotify's APIs to more easily share music with others, you must have a premium subscription.

What's gross to me is the language:

> all newly created Development Mode Client IDs will be created under the updated Development Mode rules and will have the following restrictions applied by default > Development Mode use will require a Spotify Premium account

The language acts as if it's possible to have some sort of non-development mode application. If you look further, you'll see that a non-development mode application must be owned by an organization with more than 250k users.

hazzamanic|7 days ago

Spotify have absolutely gutted API access over the last few years. Similar to all these huge companies that used to offer great API experiences.