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Beats opens up its API
By Chris Cooke | Published on Monday 10 March 2014
Beats Music has followed the lead of rivals like Spotify and Rdio by making its API public, thus enabling and encouraging the developer community to create apps that tap into the streaming service’s library of tracks, artwork, metadata and curated playlists (though playback will only work for Beats subscribers, of course, given the service doesn’t currently offer a freemium option). The Beats API was only previously available to specific partners.
Confirming that his company was looking to engage with the developer community, with a mission to make his service available via multiple devices and apps, Beats chief Ian Rogers told C-Net: “If you’re willing to pay $100 a year for music – which in my experience for all the world’s music is a tremendous bargain – you should have access to music anywhere you might want it, in your car, house, anywhere”.
