Comment 49 for bug 938180

I feel it is condescending to call your opinion fact. The fact remains that every streaming service forbids recording the stream (even Jamendo https://devportal.jamendo.com/api_terms_of_use section 3.3). It is my firmly held opinion that complying with this condition would violate the right of every Mixxx user to use Mixxx how they wish. Therefore, I would fork Mixxx if such an artificial restriction is implemented. You can have me contributing to Mixxx or you can implement artificial restrictions, but you cannot have both.

Is anyone really interested in using streaming services besides Spotify inside Mixxx anyway? Do you care enough to do a large amount of hard work implementing and maintaining code to use the service in Mixxx? Do you care enough to work on this instead of other Mixxx features? Do you care enough to risk this hard work being made worthless at the whim of a record or streaming company like what happened to VirtualDJ? ( http://djtechtools.com/2017/09/14/spotify-axes-dj-software-streaming-virtual-dj/ ) Do you care enough to risk this hard work being made worthless by the streaming company going out of business? That is not a hypothetical concern. PulseLocker shut down without warning ( http://djtechtools.com/2017/11/10/pulselocker-folds-streaming-dj-software/ ) after Serato, RekordBox, and Virtual DJ all invested in integrating the service. Spotify, the biggest player in the industry, has been in business for 10 years but is still not making a profit.

Most other music streaming services (Apple Music, Amazon Music, TIDAL...) don't even have a public API for third party developers anyway so this discussion seems moot.

I could consider this resolved if the status of this bug is changed to Won't Fix.

> integrate custom streams such as from other remote DJs, as requested in bug #1545288 and bug #1496739.

This is a separate request that is already implemented with the auxiliary inputs. There is no need for integrating user account authentication or library browsing like there would be with streaming service integration.