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I'm a bit confused, are you saying you worked around spotify's ratelimits by using non-spotify APIs to achieve similar things? Why not just RE the official client and use the same APIs it uses? (You can get lossless that way, too!)

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That is basically what I did. Librespot already reverse engineered the spotify client but mainly for playback. I extended my fork to include internal endpoints. These are spclient (extended-metadata, playlist and rootlist, collection, connect-state, lyrics, radio) and Pathfinder GraphQL for search. It doesnt call the public web API (api.spotify.com) anymore so doesnt suffer from those API rate limits.

I looked at lossless too, that is probably possible, but im not going to implement it. It uses a different key system called PlayPlay. If I manage to implement it, it would be considered DRM circumvention and I dont really want to mess with that tbh

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