Discord E2E Encryption Enforcement

Since March 2nd 2026 Discord forced all users and applications (bots) to use their end-to-end encrypted protocol to be able to participate in voice and video calls. Unfortunately Spoticord does not yet support this protocol, nor does the library it depends on for Discord voice calls (songbird).

Spotify lockouts

Ever since the majority of Spotify's audio library got leaked by Anna's Archive, Spoticord has stopped working for more and more people. While it is not 100% confirmed if this is the reason for Spotify blocking access to Spoticord, it wouldn't be a surprise, as both Spoticord and the archive scrape use the same technique to fetch audio files and keys from Spotify. Spotify has also started to reset passwords every so often for all accounts that have used Spoticord, likely because they see thousands of users logging in from the same IP address (Spoticord's server).

What does this mean for Spoticord?

While the E2EE requirement is the thing completely preventing Spoticord from functioning, the bot will likely stay offline for the foreseeable future, as a better technique for audio retrieval has been identified. This new technique should no longer cause account lockouts as this is using official Spotify APIs instead of their outdated and undocumented backend. The new API still requires a bunch of reverse engineering for it to become viable, so it's not likely Spoticord will be back up soon.