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It's 2016 - Why does Web Player STILL require Flash

It's 2016 - Why does Web Player STILL require Flash

Avatar of cherryghost
Newbie
2016-02-19 03:23 PM

Jesus lads, get your **bleep** together.

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2016-02-19 04:12 PM

Hi there,

 

Spotify webplayer requires Flash to play audio and to decode the tracks.

 

You might want to support this idea here:

 

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Ideas/Integrate-HTML5-with-play-spotify-com/idi-p/596108

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2016-02-19 06:22 PM

They use flash because they want DRM. As far as I know all on-demand services do. I know for sure Google Play, Rhapsody, and Slacker all require Flash and last I heard so did Deezer and Tidal.

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