▲ 440 ▼ Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI (techcrunch.com) submitted 7 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 148 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] gezero@lemmy.bowyerhub.uk 22 points 7 months ago (5 children) The same company who got their whole DB of songs leaked? permalink fedilink source hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 months ago (2 children) More like scraped. You can't really leak smth that's already publicly accessible permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 6 months ago* (1 child) Spotify has public databases? That's so nice of them. Really progressive. So where can I download my fave albums? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 6 months ago Well, IMO, "public access" includes semi-restricted stuff, like the requirement for an account. E.g. rutracker is closer to public than to private, compared to REDacted. As for downloading, there's not much technical difference between it and streaming, I.e. nothing really prevents you from playing into a virtual soundcard or even reverse-engineering the protocol and saving data directly (moreover, there are such projects on github) permalink fedilink source parent [–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 1 point 6 months ago (1 child) They were accessed through the API. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 7 points 6 months ago An API that at best allowed a small number is users to access millions of hours of content in a relatively short window of time sure as shit feels like a leak to me. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 months ago (2 children) More like scraped. You can't really leak smth that's already publicly accessible permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 6 months ago* (1 child) Spotify has public databases? That's so nice of them. Really progressive. So where can I download my fave albums? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 6 months ago Well, IMO, "public access" includes semi-restricted stuff, like the requirement for an account. E.g. rutracker is closer to public than to private, compared to REDacted. As for downloading, there's not much technical difference between it and streaming, I.e. nothing really prevents you from playing into a virtual soundcard or even reverse-engineering the protocol and saving data directly (moreover, there are such projects on github) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 6 months ago* (1 child) Spotify has public databases? That's so nice of them. Really progressive. So where can I download my fave albums? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 6 months ago Well, IMO, "public access" includes semi-restricted stuff, like the requirement for an account. E.g. rutracker is closer to public than to private, compared to REDacted. As for downloading, there's not much technical difference between it and streaming, I.e. nothing really prevents you from playing into a virtual soundcard or even reverse-engineering the protocol and saving data directly (moreover, there are such projects on github) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 6 months ago Well, IMO, "public access" includes semi-restricted stuff, like the requirement for an account. E.g. rutracker is closer to public than to private, compared to REDacted. As for downloading, there's not much technical difference between it and streaming, I.e. nothing really prevents you from playing into a virtual soundcard or even reverse-engineering the protocol and saving data directly (moreover, there are such projects on github) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 1 point 6 months ago (1 child) They were accessed through the API. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 7 points 6 months ago An API that at best allowed a small number is users to access millions of hours of content in a relatively short window of time sure as shit feels like a leak to me. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 7 points 6 months ago An API that at best allowed a small number is users to access millions of hours of content in a relatively short window of time sure as shit feels like a leak to me. permalink fedilink source parent