• npz@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Unless there’s some agreement / licensing thing prohibiting it, and considering that lyrics don’t change, they should be able to do some caching for a total of 1 API call per song

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      5 months ago

      You and I can do that but they’re not just caching they’re redistributing which requires royalties

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      5 months ago

      Surely the cost of lyrics (regardless of fetching API or royalties with caching) are miniscule compared to the other costs.

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        5 months ago

        I assume they are not paying for the lyrics, but for the access to the api. The lyrics are also timed to the music and the service they use might do that for them. So, like you say, serving lyrics data costs very little, but that is not what they pay for.

        And to add, I don’t really know anything about how this works behind the scenes.

    • CriticalMiss@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Not sure why you got downvoted… storing text isn’t a lot of data, they can easily do it once per song and wrap it up.

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            5 months ago

            It very much is and Spotify would definitely get sued if they weren’t paying. I got a cease and desist for an app I made about a decade ago for this very thing