The cool thing that's gone now was the "Audio Features" endpoint ( https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/referenc... ). You could easily get some important values about every song, now you would probably have to run your own analysis for every song you're interested in. That's a lot harder and slower if you don't want to preprocess every single song available.
Saying an extremely rich API is “useless” on account of several
interesting but free APIs (which were probably being abused) being deprecated is absolutely nuts. My intention was to point this out.
I’m not wasting my time at this point explaining to someone what I think is cool about the Spotify API, especially after being flagged. The mob here has already demonstrated immense one-sided thinking.
Being scapegoated for the very thing the mob has done itself is an angering experience.
Man you dumber than I thought. You got flagged because you made a low quality comment on a website where quality is expected. This isn’t Reddit where you can post literal garbage and receive zero pushback. and this post is filled to the brim with victimized word salad, calling those who disagree a “one-sided thinking mob” and that you were “scapegoated”. Bro we are not mad at you in place of Spotify, we said your comment was low quality and not worth showing.
Truth is you don’t have an explanation. Because there is no justification for closing down API endpoints like this. You’re just bootlicking Spotify despite their unreasonable actions, and got mad when others didn’t prostrate themselves in front of your corporate overlord of choice.
I mean I don't expect you'd have much of a quality explanation anyways when you're already resorting putting false words in their mouth...
The person you replied to didn't call it useless, they said "The ability to make anything interesting with the Spotify API just got flushed."
Seeing as "several interesting but free APIs" were deprecated (your own words) it's a very reasonable take: most applications of the Spotify application that did anything more than present a basic music player interfaces relied on one or more the deprecated features.
