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[baldo]

I am thinking about getting a Spotify subscription and was wondering if I can play the music files that I download from Spotify in MC.

How does the DRM work, if there is any, with MC? So if I cancel my subscription can I still continue to play the files?


Also, what about multiple machines? I have MC on several different machines and I have all my Flac files saved on separate hard drives for each of those machines. I know that this is duplication of files and I am happy with that duplication.  Please do NOT suggest a NAS drive. I do not wish to go down that route.

Thanks for your help in advance.

[Awesome Donkey]

Very likely you can't, which would defeat the purpose of the DRM (for better or for worse).

[Stanley]

Hello Baldo
I don't have Spotify/Qobus etc.
If you have a Spotify subscription, everything on your PC runs via WDM from Windows.
If you activate JRiver's WDM driver, these things run via MC. You can set up different zones in MC.

https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/WDM_Driver

Stanley

[goatherder]

I am thinking about getting a Spotify subscription and was wondering if I can play the music files that I download from Spotify in MC.

How does the DRM work, if there is any, with MC? So if I cancel my subscription can I still continue to play the files?


Also, what about multiple machines? I have MC on several different machines and I have all my Flac files saved on separate hard drives for each of those machines. I know that this is duplication of files and I am happy with that duplication.  Please do NOT suggest a NAS drive. I do not wish to go down that route.

Thanks for your help in advance.

*Practically* speaking, not really.

Stanley's suggestion is for audio rerouting thru MC, but you still need to play everything through Spotify in the first place, and there's no actual handling of the Spotify music files in MC itelf - so while you can route that audio to other zones you define among the PC's, you still need to go back to the source PC (via whatever means is best for you) to change tracks, etc. That is all doable in theory but I'd imagine it would become a giant hassle over a short time compared to just running Spotify on all devices.

[eve]

I am thinking about getting a Spotify subscription and was wondering if I can play the music files that I download from Spotify in MC.

How does the DRM work, if there is any, with MC? So if I cancel my subscription can I still continue to play the files?


Also, what about multiple machines? I have MC on several different machines and I have all my Flac files saved on separate hard drives for each of those machines. I know that this is duplication of files and I am happy with that duplication.  Please do NOT suggest a NAS drive. I do not wish to go down that route.

Thanks for your help in advance.

I assume you mean some functionality Spotify has to 'download' a track for offline listening. You almost certainly won't be able to do anything with those files outside of the Spotify app.

Routing Spotify or the streaming service of your choice through JRiver is possible though but that doesn't really solve your issue (which by the way, isn't what Spotify or other streaming services are for, and almost definitely violates their TOS in a number of ways)

[baldo]

Thanks for this guys.

It seems that I just have to run spotify separately on its own and listen to music via that. 

To be honest, I am only using Spotify to discover new music. I really want to have my own music library of Flac files that I listen to via MC on my various devices.

It is a PITA.  I really am not a big fan of streaming services.  Much prefer the old school way of owning the files and a having access to them 24/7 regardless of internet connection.  I am also not a big fan of the Spotify interface. Such is life I suppose.

Thanks again for all your your help on this matter.

[JimH]

Cloudplay is good for discovery.

[goatherder]

Thanks for this guys.

It seems that I just have to run spotify separately on its own and listen to music via that. 

To be honest, I am only using Spotify to discover new music. I really want to have my own music library of Flac files that I listen to via MC on my various devices.

It is a PITA.  I really am not a big fan of streaming services.  Much prefer the old school way of owning the files and a having access to them 24/7 regardless of internet connection.  I am also not a big fan of the Spotify interface. Such is life I suppose.

Thanks again for all your your help on this matter.

It's a real shame that PlaysForSure, or in reality at that time PlaysForMaybeOnAGoodDayWhenItWasntFeelingTemperamental didn't catch on. Playback of DRM files was managed in an app-agnostic way. Do you have a license for that file? Then you can play it as a regular WMA file.