Perhaps it was the Community Help Client, the (crummy) Help application, which did use AIR.  (I recommend that everyone use either the HTML Help on the web in a browser or use the PDF version if offline.)

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> Subject: Re: [AE] Color picker and Spotify
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> Sorry for providing false info, I could've sworn I saw an air component
> initializing in the debug log of AE.
>
> - Chris
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> On Jan 14, 2013, at 7:16 PM, Todd Kopriva <kopriva@adobe.com> wrote:
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> >
> > croebot@gmail.com [croebot@gmail.com] said this:
> >
> >> Spotify is built with Adobe AIR which is also what the AE UI is built upon.
> (or at least a derivative of air, i'm not 100% sure)
> >
> > That's not true. No part of After Effects is written using AIR or any
> derivative of AIR. The closest kernel of truth in that claim is that AIR is a
> browserless run-time for the Flash Player, and custom ScriptUI panels in
> some recent versions of After Effects run an instance of something related to
> Flash Player. But, again, no native portion of After Effects uses AIR.
> >
> > That said, it may be valuable to confirm that it's not the ScriptUI panels
> conflicting with Spotify. The easiest way to do this is to remove the Scripting
> plug-in (e.g., by moving it temporarily to your desktop) and restart After
> Effects.
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