{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/sashahilton00/spotify-connect-resources/issues/2","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/sashahilton00/spotify-connect-resources/issues/2/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/sashahilton00/spotify-connect-resources/issues/2/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/sashahilton00/spotify-connect-resources/issues/2/events","html_url":"https://github.com/sashahilton00/spotify-connect-resources/issues/2","id":119710355,"number":2,"title":"Remote-control Spotify using the Connect protocol, especially the Windows client?","user":{"login":"CoDEmanX","id":1309249,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1309249?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/CoDEmanX","html_url":"https://github.com/CoDEmanX","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/CoDEmanX/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/CoDEmanX/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/CoDEmanX/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/CoDEmanX/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/CoDEmanX/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/CoDEmanX/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/CoDEmanX/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/CoDEmanX/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/CoDEmanX/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":16,"created_at":"2015-12-01T12:50:17Z","updated_at":"2015-12-08T18:13:33Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Hi, I wonder if any of the research on Spotify Connect allows controlling a Spotify client yet.\r\n\r\nI'm really not interested in receiving and decoding audio data with a custom Spotify connect client, but only to perform actions like volume control and track queuing - essentially what I can do with my smartphone, Spotify's Android app and a premium subscription (for Spotify Connect).\r\n\r\nIt's very handy to be able to remote control the Windows client on my laptop, or my Spotify Connect-enabled speaker, using my phone. But I'd like to have these abilities independent of an official Spotify client (e.g. let a little Windows application query what songs I play on any of my devices and create some sort of custom last.fm to track what I hear the most; my speaker does unfortunately not support last.fm natively).\r\n\r\nAny pointers are much appreciated!"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/sashahilton00/spotify-connect-resources/issues/comments/162966344","html_url":"https://github.com/sashahilton00/spotify-connect-resources/issues/2#issuecomment-162966344","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/sashahilton00/spotify-connect-resources/issues/2","id":162966344,"user":{"login":"CoDEmanX","id":1309249,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1309249?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/CoDEmanX","html_url":"https://github.com/CoDEmanX","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/CoDEmanX/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/CoDEmanX/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/CoDEmanX/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/CoDEmanX/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/CoDEmanX/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/CoDEmanX/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/CoDEmanX/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/CoDEmanX/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/CoDEmanX/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-12-08T18:13:33Z","updated_at":"2015-12-08T18:13:33Z","body":"Ouch... I managed to compile the dependencies of node-spotify-web after some trial and error (Node v0.10.41 + NPM v3.5.1 + a [node-speaker fork](https://github.com/RTK/node-speaker) + MSVC 2013 work for me on Windows 7) and it took me like 3 lines of code to turn it into a stream ripper. I consider this legal research, but I'm worried for Spotify that people might abuse it, if it's that easy to achieve. It doesn't seem to use the high-quality version of the MP3s, not sure if this is just another tiny change in spotify-web...\r\n\r\nOn the other hand, I'm surprised how well spotify-web works! It's kinda fun to play songs from the command line :smile: "}}