Support binary addon fork of XBMC for legal use of libspotify with SpotyXBMC

[Hedda]

Arne Morten Kvarving (a.k.a. spiff, a.k.a. cptspiff) have forked XBMC and added binary (compiled) addon support to it which is exactly what SpotyXBMC2 needs to run legally and be distributed precompiled, and he is looking for people to help him with his fork.

https://github.com/notspiff/xbmc-cmake

Would you consider this feature request for you to add spotyxbmc2 as binary addon?

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=67012
https://github.com/akezeke/spotyxbmc2

This binary addon framework support could also enable using FFmpeg, Netflix, Pandora, and other libraries and services as binary addons in XBMC. Further discussion about this with Spiff can be found here notspiff/kodi-cmake#1

FYI, if your concern is that libspotify C API library from Spotify themselves is not open source then you can use an open source library version of libspotify from the despotify or respotify projects as a 1:1 replacement library as they have reverse engineered it

https://github.com/Hexxeh/spotify-websocket-api
https://github.com/SimonKagstrom/despotify

You still need a paid premium account for Spotify to stream content but they do support offline files to your library too, so you can download it and it will be just like buying non-DRM mp3 files online, all fully legal.

[da-anda]

it's not the job of OpenElec to add support for binary addons but XBMC mainline

[opdenkamp]

oh look, spiff's done the same thing that i'm going to inject after gotham :P

[stefansaraev]

no plans to add features that are not in xbmc mainline. sorry