Does anyone have any links for reverse engineering Spotify DRM? I didn't necessarily need it for myself, have plenty of music, and it would be a pretty inefficient means of piracy vs. BitTorrent or like yt-dlp, but I'm curious how it works.
It always seems to me like the analog gap is particularly gaping with audio, and I wonder how far down to the metal it's protected.
@jonny @piracy I wonder if https://github.com/Shabinder/SpotiFlyer still works?
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@jonny hmm yeah it looks like the author has moved on to work on Soundbound?
Watching the video on their Telegram it looks like you enable a repository in the app which then downloads an APK from a URL in https://gitlab.com/shabinder/soundbound/-/tree/main/Experimental-Sources/0.3
I haven't unzipped it to see what's inside but I'm assuming they are binaries (compiled Kotlin). I don't see the source on github or gitlab but maybe they are there's a thread to pull on?
This approach reminds me a bit of Calibre and DRMd ebooks...
@jonny also, does the Spotify API support getting the actual audio? I thought it was metadata only?