This enhancement makes Spotify think you have a Premium subscription, granting free listening, just like Spotilife, and provides some additional features like custom lyrics.
The History
Several months ago, Spotilife, the only enhancement to get Spotify Premium, stopped working on new Spotify versions. I decompiled Spotilife, reverse-engineered Spotify, intercepted requests, etc., and created this enhancement.
Restrictions
Please refrain from opening issues about the following features, as they are server-sided and will NEVER work:
Very High audio quality
Native playlist downloading (you can download podcast episodes though)
Jam (hosting a Spotify Jam and joining it remotely requires Premium; only joining in-person works)
It’s possible to implement downloading locally, but it will never be included in EeveeSpotify (unless someone opens a pull request).
Lyrics Support
EeveeSpotify replaces Spotify monthly limited lyrics with one of the following three lyrics providers:
Genius: Offers the best quality lyrics, provides the most songs, and updates lyrics the fastest. Does not and will never be time-synced.
LRCLIB: The most open service, offering time-synced lyrics. However, it lacks lyrics for many songs.
Musixmatch: The service Spotify uses. Provides time-synced lyrics for many songs, but you’ll need a user token to use this source. To obtain the token, download Musixmatch from the App Store, sign up, then go to Settings > Get help > Copy debug info, and paste it into EeveeSpotify alert. You can also extract the token using MITM.
If the enhancement is unable to find a song or process the lyrics, you’ll see a “Couldn’t load the lyrics for this song” message. The lyrics might be wrong for some songs when using Genius due to how the enhancement searches songs. While I’ve made it work in most cases, kindly refrain from opening issues about it.
How It Works
Starting with version 4.0, EeveeSpotify intercepts Spotify requests to load user data, deserializes it, and modifies the parameters in real-time. This method is the best so far and works incredibly stable. You can select the dynamic Premium patching method in the EeveeSpotify settings.
Upon login, Spotify fetches user data and caches it in the offline.bnk file in the /Library/Application Support/PersistentCache directory. It uses its proprietary binary format to store data, incorporating a length byte before each value, among other conventions. Certain keys, such as player-license, financial-product, streaming-rules, and others, determine the user abilities.
The enhancement patches this file while initializing; Spotify loads it and assumes you have Premium. To be honest, it doesn’t really patch due to challenges with dynamic length and varied bytes. The enhancement extracts the username from the current offline.bnk file and inserts it into premiumblank.bnk (a file containing all premium values preset), replacing offline.bnk. Spotify may reload user data, and you’ll be switched to the Free plan. When this happens, you’ll see a popup with quick restart app and reset data actions.
Hex
Enhancement also sets trackRowsEnabled in SPTFreeTierArtistHubRemoteURLResolver to true, so Spotify loads not just track names on the artist page. It can stop working just like Spotilife, but so far, it works on the latest Spotify 8.9.## (Spotilife also patches offline.bnk, however, it changes obscure bytes that do nothing on new versions).
To open Spotify links in sideloaded app, use OpenSpotifySafariExtension. Remember to activate it and allow access in Settings > Safari > Extensions.
