While a formal, official Spotify app never reached the Nintendo 3DS
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VideoPane: While primarily for video, some users use it to play YouTube music videos in the background. While a formal, official Spotify app never reached
If you want streaming music on a modded 3DS, your best bet is 3DSoundCloud, a community-made client for SoundCloud (created by developer RocketRobz). It successfully uses a lightweight TLS library and streams 64kbps audio. While not Spotify, it proves that streaming to the 3DS is viable—and gives hope that someone might one day reverse-engineer Spotify's public API for a similar client. VideoPane : While primarily for video, some users