Most have given up developing Spotify tools after the latest API rug-pull

Niantic. And always have been

Completely missed that! No wonder that the post made me think of it then!

The tech stack reminds me of this: https://boringtechnology.club/

Also, they have a private API. Minim is a really good API wrapper in Python. The dev branch contains V2 which is currently in alpha

If you’re running Linux, check out QBZ, or qobuz-player if you prefer terminal. The official client also works pretty well in Bottles, but I like QBZ better than the official one

Casey Newton wrote about this a lot two years ago: https://www.platformer.news/why-platformer-is-leaving-substack/

Yeah, FOSS doesn’t have the incentive and have different ideological roots

+1 for niri. Installed it on my 11" laptop, and it is as if it’s made for that use case

+1 for Qobuz! Tidal firing 100 employees did not inspire confidence in their app being less shit