mherger wrote: 
> > I would be really surprised if players could tell Spotify not to
> include
> > a track in the stats.
> 
> Some streaming services indeed expect the player (or the controlling 
> software like LMS) to report when a track has been listened to. Without 
> that reporting they wouldn't have any means to calculate listening 
> hours. But Spotify is different, in that it's not the same http and file
> 
> based streaming like all the others.
> 

I wonder if Spotify checks the client id/signature if there is one.

Arguably they could check that the play is from a set of trusted apps
before incrementing song stats.

This could, perhaps, protect them against bad actors reporting plays
that never really happened and trying to profit from it somehow.



Paul Webster
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