Reverse Engineering the World's Largest Music Streaming Platform

Spotify is the world's largest music streaming service, yet it has never fullfilled the flexibility and platform support needs of the ones enjoying home automation, open streamers and more. For over a decade, the librespot family of projects has been filling that void through reverse engineering of Spotify's products.

This talk takes you through one of the longest-running efforts to open up the Spotify ecosystem. We'll explore the technical approaches used to reverse engineer the official clients, the evolution of the project as Spotify's architecture changed, and the delicate balance of operating in legal grey areas while keeping the open source project alive.

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