Spotify Connect isn't an API. It's a piece of Spotify-software running on a dedicated chipset. It works like AirPlay or ChromeCast in that it just takes the URL as sent from the Spotify App and plays it.
Spotify has a set of (older) APIs plus their semi-public "libspotify" library you can use to integrate with it. Both of these are what essentially all pre-Spotify Connect Spotify integrations like the one for the Squeezebox or Sonos are using. These APIs don't support a lot of the functionality Spotify is offering through their own Apps, especially for the desktop client which has an App API of it's own (the prolific use of the term "App" these days makes talking about things related to software increasingly annoying). Logitech's implementation is primarily limited by Spotify's UI guidelines (it's pretty much exactly what Spotify expected an "official" implementation to do until 9 month or so ago). The 3rd party plugin offers some more fucntionality but you can't use things like Spotify radio or, say, playing Last.fm "loved" tracks. You are right about AirPlay but WRT Chromecast: I don't think anything other than Spotify Connect will allow you to not tether the device. The reason is that there's a DRM concept integrated into the streaming and only Spotify Connect supports that natively. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 7, the Universal App for iOS 7* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101471 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
