A Note about Spotify Transfers Published Oct 10, 2020 by The SongShift Team
Unfortunately, as of SongShift v5.1.2, you will no longer be able to create transfers from Spotify to another music service. We understand this will be a disappointment for a lot of you. We wish we didn't have to.
The Spotify Developer Platform Team reached out and let us know we'd need to remove transferring from their service to a competing music service or have our API access revoked due to TOS violation. While this is not the news we wanted to hear, we respect their decision.
To continue to provide some level of support for Spotify, we'll still be supporting transferring from other services to Spotify.
We will continue to roll out planned features for SongShift. Some quality of life improvements, some new supported services, and other things best left a surprise.
*Any new features will have the same limitation of not supporting transfers out of Spotify.
This update is a painful one to push out to you all. We hope to continue to be of help with all your other music transferring needs.
elgordio on October 11st, 2020 at 09:19 UTC »
Well according to Spotify’s own privacy policy
https://support.spotify.com/uk/article/gdpr-article-15-information/
“Right to data portability - the right to request a copy of your personal data in electronic format and the right to transmit that personal data for use in another party’s service”
If they are denying API usage to achieve this then I wonder how they plan to fulfil this obligation. I don’t have a Spotify account, someone who does should make a request and find out.
caffeinatorthesecond on October 11st, 2020 at 09:12 UTC »
Wow this would really screw me over. I’ve got both services and use Spotify mostly but maintain my library on Apple Music through SongShift as well.
ethanjim on October 11st, 2020 at 08:47 UTC »
Market leader using their power to make their service worse for users, at the detriment of competitors?