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0 pointsRetr0id6mo ago0 comments

You are correct

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nsteel6mo ago· 2 in thread

I believe that changed recently and Spotify started blocking the key requests from free accounts.

Retr0idOP6mo ago

Then how do people with free accounts listen to music lol

(It is plausible they added some new DRM but it's not going to be anything too crazy)

nsteel6mo ago

Their official clients have moved over to playplay DRM protection for non-lossless files too. The old key endpoints no longer work for free accounts, they must have added a server-side check.

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