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Comment by CharlesW | Hacker News Reader

The worst aspect of this post that it lacks a call-to-action. Without that, it didn't have a chance to make an impact.

The second-worst aspect of this post is that it proves Spotify's point. Not only does the author attack and threaten Spotify from start to finish, but they reinforce that the primary use case is to leave Spotify for competitive services.

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The post was originally written more like a vent/message to our users.

I do not have time and resources to set up new website like Spotify did.

Today when I saw Spotify asking Apple about being fair, I immediatelly though about our case from few months ago.

It's not like they did not implement something, they deliberatelly changed TOS for Developers and send email to us that we have to stop using their SDK which was ok to use just before IPO...

So they did exactly what they accuse Apple of doing: bending TOS to company's benefit.

Smart companies make it easier to leave, because potential customers are more likely to sign up if they know they won’t be locked in.

Replace Spotify with Apple Music in the article. Same case. If Spotify wants others to play fair, it should start playing fair as well.

Not sure that is the case as your playlists are accessible from AppleScript. Here's their titles, you can further iterate and get the info about the tracks in the playlists.

    tell application "iTunes"
      repeat with p in playlists
        log name of p as string
      end repeat
    end tell

Funny you mention AppleScript, because before there was Apple Music API, we were using it and pure applescript was exactly how we have started.

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/stamp-2

Bit of a history now, but it was just an applescript that used CSV to click through iTunes.

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