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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.

@piracy

jonny

@edsu
it seems like it just uses the API???? idk readme says they have moved on to another project that I can't find the sources for, the gitlab just has the APKs. but if it's just as simple as using the API I would be freaking stunned there wasn't more widespread abuse of it.
@piracy

Hi there! The links in your response are not clickable for Lemmy users, here are the clickable versions: !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

@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 gitlab.com/shabinder/soundboun

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...

GitLabExperimental-Sources/0.3 · main · Shabinder Singh / Soundbound Sources · GitLabUnofficial Exp. Sources for Soundbound Application, Pls see disclaimer. Songs and Music Downloader, Spotify Downloader, Youtube Downloader, Soundcloud Downloader, JioSaavn Downloader, Gaana Downloader.

@jonny also, does the Spotify API support getting the actual audio? I thought it was metadata only?