[HN Gopher] MusicKit JS
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       MusicKit JS
        
       Author : tosh
       Score  : 108 points
       Date   : 2020-02-22 17:20 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (developer.apple.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (developer.apple.com)
        
       | dawnerd wrote:
       | About time. Rdio has such an amazing embed api (I built the JS
       | api for it at the time and a site that was really heavily used).
       | Total shame when Apple bought and shut them down. Maybe I can
       | bring that old site out from the dead. Hmm
        
         | mackey wrote:
         | Apple did not buy Rdio, they basically went out of business and
         | sold what they left to Pandora.
        
       | gyrgtyn wrote:
       | can a web app play music and run js with the screen off?
        
       | parhamn wrote:
       | I've always wondered why Netflix and all don't have clip widgets
       | that you can link/embed on other sites. It is essentially free
       | mass embedded paywalls.
        
         | GuiA wrote:
         | I can see the short term benefit, but inevitably some big
         | content distributor would want to opt out on condition of
         | providing their content to Netflix due to some disadvantage
         | they perceive with it. From there more and more content
         | providers would want to opt out ("Disney does it, we should do
         | it too because it makes us more like Disney") and then the
         | feature becomes useless and people who use it get mad.
        
       | staticvar wrote:
       | You can play your iTunes library online now?
        
         | dewey wrote:
         | Your Apple Music library, this SDK already exists for years so
         | it's not exactly new.
        
       | kitsunesoba wrote:
       | Props to Apple for releasing this. The way Spotify has handled
       | the deprecation of libspotify without a proper replacement and
       | removing streaming/playback from their other SDKs has been
       | extremely disappointing.
        
       | benbristow wrote:
       | Doesn't seem like there's an NPM package. Would be better if you
       | could import it with Webpack and use await rather than callbacks
       | etc.
        
         | mrcarruthers wrote:
         | Well it's using promises, so you can just await those.
         | 
         | But agreed, the documentation looks like it was written in
         | 2014/2015.
        
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