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 Note: librespot only works with Spotify Premium
 
 ## This fork
-As the origin is no longer maintained I wanted to have a place for a version of librespot with other peoples forks and features merged.
+As the origin by [plietar](https://github.com/plietar/) is no longer actively maintained I wanted to have a place for a version of librespot with other peoples forks and features merged.
 
 # Wiki
 More information can befound in the [wiki](https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot/wiki)
@@ -48,14 +48,6 @@ Once you've built *librespot*, run it using :
 target/release/librespot --name DEVICENAME 
 ```
 
-## Credits
-I've done nothing more than make this pretty so big thanks to:  
-[plietar](https://github.com/plietar/) for making the thing in the first place.  
-[kingosticks](https://github.com/kingosticks/) for the Suffling and Repeat.  
-[ipha](https://github.com/ipha/) for the start stop audio sink.  
-[fossedihelm](https://github.com/fossedihelm/) for [addind a default inital volume and options for it](https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot/pull/5)  
-[brain0](https://github.com/brain0/) for [making pluseaudio more robust against audio failures](https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot/pull/6)  
-
 ## Disclaimer
 Using this code to connect to Spotify's API is probably forbidden by them.
 Use at your own risk.