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I find it frustrating how many sites still use Flash. YouTube still has an annoyingly high proportion of videos only available in Flash, while Spotify's web UI also requires it. I've found that youtube-dl[0] is a nice solution for watching videos (especially given that live streaming is often not possible with all the traffic congestion issues as of late), but there's nothing I can do with Spotify.

0: http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/

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Why don't you just use Spotify's native client? They have one for Windows, Linux, iOS, Android and I assume OSX.

Edit: Oh, unless you're talking more about congestion being the problem for Spotify, though you can download playlist via the native clients.

Many perfectly acceptable reasons exist: maybe you've got a Chromebook, maybe you're using a computer that isn't yours and you don't want to install things on it, maybe you have accessibility requirements that the web client serves better [].

[] I don't actually know whether Spotify's web client is particularly accessible (beyond requiring flash which makes it totally non-accessible for me), but it certainly could be.

There is no Spotify Linux client. You're supposed to use Wine, which is hacky.

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