Sometime in late April 2017 Spotify changed their Web Player from Adobe Flash to HTML5 and they now also use the Widevine DRM. And I can't use the Spotify Web Player anymore in FreeBSD. I have tried with both www/chromium and www/iridium. Both browsers were compiled from ports, which took a very, very long time. But it was wasted time, because the Spotify Web Player does not work in neither of these browsers in FreeBSD. No response to the setting "Allow site to play protected content" in www/chromium and no option to "Enable DRM in the yellow warning bar at the top of the screen" in www/firefox-esr as one can read at Spotify's website.
Widevine is a Google Company and at their website one can read:
"What is Widevine DRM? Widevine's DRM solution combines the following industry adopted standards to provide robust multiplatform content protection: Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH), Common Encryption (CENC), Encrypted Media Extensions (EME)."
So I am stucked. Has anyone been lucky to solve this new Spotify Web Player, Widevine/DRM problem in FreeBSD? Thank you in advance!
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Well I think there is a way to use Spotify in FreeBSD using the Web Player. One can as a FreeBSD user compile midori, a small browser from www/midori
(The midori website tells me that: 'Certain sites, including Spotify, will require Adobe Flash Player'.)
But I am pretty sure that my midori built from ports runs the Spotify Web Player fine without any Flash Player at all.
I spent circa 10 hours to get Spotfy to work with FreeBSD and nothing worked before I found midori. (The wine way is too complicated to go just for listening to some Spotify music. Firefox does not work since the linux-flashplayer does not work with the Spotify Web Player due to some library soup, the same soup goes for the clementine-player's Spotify module.)
I my self always build applications from the ports. Midori on my FreeBSD system is a 64-bit binary as this command shows
The sound quality via FreeBSD and midori seems great. Actually the best bitrate is circa 160 kbps when running the Spotify Web Player no matter what OS or browser that may be used. Right now I am listening to Anne Gastinel's album 'Bach 6 Cello Suits' which I am used listen to from CD. It also sounds great via midori in FreeBSD. I am Spotify Premium user if that has anything to do with the sound quality, I do not know.
One thing I have noticed is that if midori is built with config option GTK3 you may sometimes be asked to download the Flash Player. But the default is GTK2 and so far, many hours later the Spotify Web Player has not asked for any Flash Player.
Has anyone else using FreeBSD been able to play the Spotify Web Player this midori way? If so, has there been any problems?
Widevine is a Google Company and at their website one can read:
"What is Widevine DRM? Widevine's DRM solution combines the following industry adopted standards to provide robust multiplatform content protection: Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH), Common Encryption (CENC), Encrypted Media Extensions (EME)."
So I am stucked. Has anyone been lucky to solve this new Spotify Web Player, Widevine/DRM problem in FreeBSD? Thank you in advance!
OLD NOW OBSOLETE TEXT:
Well I think there is a way to use Spotify in FreeBSD using the Web Player. One can as a FreeBSD user compile midori, a small browser from www/midori
(The midori website tells me that: 'Certain sites, including Spotify, will require Adobe Flash Player'.)
But I am pretty sure that my midori built from ports runs the Spotify Web Player fine without any Flash Player at all.
I spent circa 10 hours to get Spotfy to work with FreeBSD and nothing worked before I found midori. (The wine way is too complicated to go just for listening to some Spotify music. Firefox does not work since the linux-flashplayer does not work with the Spotify Web Player due to some library soup, the same soup goes for the clementine-player's Spotify module.)
I my self always build applications from the ports. Midori on my FreeBSD system is a 64-bit binary as this command shows
file /usr/local/bin/midori
Code:
midori: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamcally linked, interpreter /libexec/ld-elf.so.1, for FreeBSD 10.3,strippedThe sound quality via FreeBSD and midori seems great. Actually the best bitrate is circa 160 kbps when running the Spotify Web Player no matter what OS or browser that may be used. Right now I am listening to Anne Gastinel's album 'Bach 6 Cello Suits' which I am used listen to from CD. It also sounds great via midori in FreeBSD. I am Spotify Premium user if that has anything to do with the sound quality, I do not know.
One thing I have noticed is that if midori is built with config option GTK3 you may sometimes be asked to download the Flash Player. But the default is GTK2 and so far, many hours later the Spotify Web Player has not asked for any Flash Player.
Has anyone else using FreeBSD been able to play the Spotify Web Player this midori way? If so, has there been any problems?
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