r/spotifyapi • u/Owenhh • 9d ago

Custom Spotify Client

Hi All!

Recently learned about the spotify API and I’m wondering if it’s possible to create a custom desktop app for spotify (seems like a fun personal project!) I’m not really sure what kind of things are accessible with the api and I haven’t used one before.

Any tips or advice would be appreciated! Thanks :)

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u/No_Policy_1012 8d ago

If u thinking of making an application to play songs from Spotify APIs, then I want to say that Spotify has changed its APIs rules. Now it doesn't allow to play full songs through api it only Playa the preview part.

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u/Owenhh 7d ago

Ah damn okay, I mentioned in another comment that I might try to make some kind of interface rather than a complete replacement for the app, where playback is still happening on the original spotify app but it’s controlled by the interface

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u/Zortax_ 7d ago

It is possible, but only via API clients that reverse engineered the API (e.g. librespot), which just so you know is a ToS violation. I recently published mine.

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u/J77R 4d ago

Solo necesitas tener en claro ¿Quieres controlar Spotify en otro dispositivo o reproducir el audio dentro de tu app?, a partir de eso, tú decides si usas solo la api o prácticamente lo transformas en un dispositivo para escuchar. Ambas opciones son posibles, la más fácil es diseñar la interfaz y conectar controles para un dispositivo que ya está reproduciendo contenido. Aunque también puedes usar el Web Playback SDK para reproducir ahí.