peterw wrote: > I disagree. Plenty of companies - from giants like Google to small > outfits like Schedules Direct, fully publish APIs but rely on individual > customers to pay for API keys or other authentication credentials. > All of these companies are masters of their own fate. Music streaming services usually aren't. They have agreements with rights owners about how they have to secure content and most of these tend to be on the more ridiculous side of things. When we started ickStream, I too though this would somehow be about technology....
The issue is not so much the authentication credential - that's done through the user account. The problem is having an API key open to the public. I'm not aware of anyone allowing this if there is one. There are a lot of cases here where it's done, but most of them (like the YouTube plugin etc.) essentially violate some T&Cs. Of course, you COULD handle this but it requires user action. The user would have to get an API key/authenticate etc. and these APIs are meant for vendors, not users. > > Unfortunately true. I see a big split in business models. .... I hope > all will migrate to the latter model... It's not a deliberate choice in this case. And migrating to something that makes sense is usually not an option. Spotify has had some success in designing something that is both kind of open and works for them and getting that pushed down the throat of rights owners but overall this process has taken them soooo many years.... --- 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 9, the Universal App for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110399 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
