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Clementine recently got support for Spotify and Grooveshark.
That should make it easier to port to Amarok

poomerang wrote:Clementine recently got support for Spotify and Grooveshark.
That should make it easier to port to Amarok

Exactly what I would suggest. I read last week about the clementine beta. I'm listening to spotify on clementine beta right now, with lyrics and artist info.
Clementine beta also supports grooveshark and many other internet services.
I will make a feature proposal for Amarok.

Kryten2X4B wrote:"The Application Key must be embedded in your Application, including in all updates and revisions thereto, in a secure manner not accessible by third parties. You agree not to share, transfer or otherwise disclose your Application Key to any other party".

I really can not see how that obligation can be fulfilled in an open-source application.

If this request is to be taken seriously, open source or not does not matter at all. Both from a theoretical and practical perspective, binary encoding alone cannot provide any significant obfuscation. In fact:

• Boaz Barak et al. proved that perfect obfuscation is impossible (paper at the bottom of the page)
• Shafi Goldwasser et al. showed methods of obfuscating as much as possible, which, in principle, can be applied to any representation of an algorithm, binary or not.

There's also an enlightening Talk by Shafi Goldwasser and a nice two-part overview blog article about the topic.

P.S. Of course, obfuscated source isn't open source. But it's perfectly enough to protect a thin wrapper around libspotify that includes that ominous 'key'.