Despotify: An Open Source Spotify Client

Postat under: Mjukvara

March 1, 2009 Kommentarer: View Comments

A group of Swedish and anonymous “computer science researchers and geeks” has posted the (open) source code to a free Spotify client dubbed Despotify. So far it’s just proof-of-concept and sports a simple text based interface, but something tells me it won’t take long until that changes. To still support Spotify as far as possible you need a premium account to use the player, so no – it’s not just a cheap attempt at getting rid of the ads without paying for it (there’s no Geographic Rights Management though).

“We have not implemented support for ads since its pointless in an open source client. Patching away the ad-routine is just too simple. We strongly believe that you should pay for the premium service if you want to use the open source client. “

www.despotify.se

Continue reading for a video of the proof-of-concept client in action:

JB

I think it's great that the Swedish pirate underground supports Spotify in this way. Should mean lots of new paying customers for Spotify.
Tobbe

Yeah, I agree. There's nothing like seeing a product/service evolve by fans hacking it just for the sake of them liking it and wanting to make it better :). I just hope there won't be someone forking the code and managing to release a wide-spread, multi-OS ad-free client in the near future, something tells me it won't take much for the record companies to get cold feet now in the beginning.

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