Spotify Question for Michael - Will it really go away?

> My first question is when you updated the Spotify app a year or so ago,
> that this update used the new librespot library so for those of us using

No, it did not.

- The libspotify issue is a firmware issue. We're using it for the
playback only.

- The re-write was about the navigation, content finding, not the
playback. All server-side. Moving from the old metadata API to the new
web API.

- Logitech can't use an in-official, reverse-engineered library which
has not been approved by Spotify anyway.

> Spotify through the MSB interface and running a radio or touch we would
> be OK. Your recent post seems to indicate that the hardware firmware
> will need an update which is unlikely, correct?

Yes.

> My second question is do you have a date when we will loose Spotify and
> are there any other options available? I read about Ickstream but it
> doesn't seem to have a Spotify implementation fully developed yet or
> even if it is still being supported.

No, no date yet. And ickStream would most likely suffer the same fate.


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Michael