Have you ever wondered why Cider costs $800 per month to operate and has 2.8 billion workers requests per day, while not being famous at all?
Here's why.
*.api.cider.sh
- AM token grabbing: Authenticating MusicKit JS
- Automatic
- iCloud Music Library album art for Discord Rich Presence
- Automatic - however, it does not seem to be working right now…
C1 MKJS caching: Loading MusicKit JS from Cider's backend instead of Apple's CDNOn by default, disable in Settings → Advanced → turning on Load MusicKit from Apple- Removed in 51f28144d0302a37b957f8370c880e81362591bb
C1 Musixmatch Lyrics ProxyActivate in Settings → Lyrics → turning on Enable Musixmatch Lyrics- Added in e087146f7ceacbcb995b34f7ca07b1dbd5e61c00
- Removed in c27f77fcb4939fb082b4fe73ef17df34df139693
- C1 Theme/Plugin mirroring for mainland China users
- Activate in Settings → Advanced → turning on Theme & Plugin Mirror to Cider
- C1 Audio Lab on the Cloud
- On by default, current status unknown
*.ciderapp.workers.dev, connect.cidercollective.dev, connect.cidercollective.cider.sh, connect-6iv.pages.dev, *.cider.fm
- C2 Cider Connect Authentication
- Automatic
- C2 Spotify Integration
- Activate by connecting Spotify with Cider
- C2 Listening Together Party
- Activate by signing into Cider Connect
- C2 cider.fm short-links
- Activate by starting a Listen Together Party
- C2 Relay Service: Originally to prevent protocol links (i.e.
cider://
) from spawning another instance of Cider, and buffers requests on Firebase Realtime Database and makes the client listen to the database instead. Now a core part of Cider Connect- Activate by signing into Cider Connect
- C2 Remote / Game Bar overlay (Planned): powered by C2 Relay Service
- Activate by signing into Cider Connect (monthly payment required in the future)
- C2 Cider Collective backdoor: Allows Cider Collective administrators to control your Cider instance, powered by C2 Relay Service
- Activate by signing into Cider Connnect & connecting to Discord
- More info: https://discord.com/channels/843954443845238864/997036669976989777/1058290098510254101
- (Planned) C2 Config Sync
- Activate by signing into Cider Connect
- C2 OBS Web Source: shows your now playing song inside a webpage which can be shown inside OBS
- Activate by signing into Cider Connect
- (Work in progress) C2 last.fm Scrobbling
- Activate by connecting last.fm with Cider
- Currently, I think scrobbling works client-side and not through Cider Connect.
More stuffs:
https://rewrite.cider.sh/ — New Cider website: out now
https://v2.cider.sh/ — New Cider website (no public access)
https://download.cider.sh/ — Download links for Cider 1
https://changelog.cider.sh/ — Cider 2 beta changelog
https://old.cider.sh/ — Archive of the old Cider website
https://swag.cider.sh/ — Cider merch store
https://demo.cider.sh/ — Cider UI Preview (for V1 or V2…? I forgot)