Spotify news and technology progress by Fredrik Kjell » despotify

Spotify on maemo 5 for Nokia N900

frekje — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:07:32 +0000

Are you an owner of the brilliant Nokia N900?

Are you a fan of Spotify?

Spotify support has said no development is currently planned to support Spotify on Maemo 5.

So, what to do?

Well, “eskil” decided to take matter into own hands and started playing around with “despotify”. After tweaking the interface with Qt 4.6 and being able to deliver a working graphical front-end the hack is working.

Go check it out and pay your respect,

http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2009/10/23/qt-de-spotify-running-on-a-nokia-n900/

Despotify responsible for Spotify hack CEO comments

frekje — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:04:00 +0000

Despotify (as disclosed earlier in this post) was responsible for hacking Spotify which was announced yesterday. The group behind Despotify did not attack any databases but figured out how to communicate with the Spotify servers. Doing so, they were able to request user information and consequently brake passwords.

Picture from Flickr

“We do of course not appreciate when people are trying to hack Spotify” says Sptoify’s CEO Daniel Ek. “We interpret Despotify as a wish of making Spotify more open to developers to build things on top of Spotify. The developers are writing software for Spotify is for sure something we incourage and we will work hard to provide an API” continues Daniel to IDG.se.

I have some comments:

1. An API has been requested since the beta trial, this shows it is high time to get it out.
2. Why was the breach announcement postponed until now?
3. Celebrate Despotify for a successful reverse engineering, it takes a lot of skills.
4. Always use separe passwords for every site. Manage passwords using a software, for instance KeePass.

Please share your thoughts in the comments to this post.

Despotify brings hacked Spotify to Linux

frekje — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:20:01 +0000

A group of computer enthusiasts has created an open solution to Spotify. The client, which has no graphical interface, connects to and streams from the spotify servers. The commercial as the free users experience has been removed.

For a video and more information, go to http://despotify.se/

The group of people is connected to the group #hack.se which is said to consist of people from the demoscene and piracty movement.