Spotify as scrobble client

[gabeklavans]

Okay hear me out...

I dislike Spotify profiting off my listening data as much as the next person, and part of the whole motivation for using something like MS is creating a fully featured privacy-conscious listening/stat-tracking environment.

BUT

• Spotify's recommendations can be genuinely good from the user's perspective
• Having Spotify friends be able to see what you're listening to even while playing from your personal software stack would be cool
• Contributing to your favorite artists' Spotify popularity can feel good (it is unfortunately a useful statistic for the artists currently)
• Spotify wrapped

My naïve concept for actually implementing this is:

Whenever the "now playing" banner is able to be displayed, and if the Spotify scrobble client is configured, start playing the song on Spotify on a dummy playing device registered by MS (or by user via some setup doc).

Feel free to shoot this down, as I'm aware it's kinda silly. But I figured I'd bring it up.

[FoxxMD]

I think it's a fine idea but its definitely outside the scope of what MS is designed to do. The parts of the Spotify API that MS interacts with don't handle creating Players or have the ability to create dummy Players.

However, if you wanted to use MS to achieve this it does have a JSON api for getting all of the "now playing" information you mentioned. Access it at (can do this in a browser)

http://YOUR_MS_INSTANCE/api/status

to get a json array like this

If you do end up implementing this let me know! Sounds like a neat project.