Open-Source Spotify frontends

Are there any open-source spotify frontends? If there aren't, why not?

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demystify@lemmy.ml · 21 pts · 2y (5 replies)
NicerLemmyUser@lemm.ee · 12 pts · 2y

I have been using this but it finds music on yt, sometimes finding wrong songs or just not finding them at all. Though I have to admit it's really cool!

masterofn001@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 2y

This is my main music app these days.

Occasionally spotty (pun intended) but otherwise awesome.

blkpws@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)
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wagoner@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

How? When I opened it up it asks for a login to Spotify before I can do anything

blkpws@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
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brunofin@lemm.ee · 21 pts · 2y

Spot is a native Spotify client for gnome.

https://github.com/xou816/spot

blkpws@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 2y (2 replies)
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theamigan@lemmy.dynatron.me · 7 pts · 2y

Yeesh, that is objectionable. I miss when I was in the dark about this, thanks a lot.

NicerLemmyUser@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 2y

Wow, didn't know about this and never would've expected this. I guess sometimes we should expect the unexpected. Thanks for this article!

lud@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 2y (3 replies)

I use Spotify-player together with Spotifyd.

Spotify-player can play music on it's own but I prefer to use it with Spotifyd so that I can close Spotify-player without stopping the music.

Spotify-tui like someone else mentioned is great. Unfortunately it's abandoned and doesn't work well anymore.

NicerLemmyUser@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I have seen most, if not all spotify frontends (that actually play music from spotify rather than finding the stream on yt) require spotify premium. Why is that so?

Rand0mA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Presumably it makes use of API access.

I may be slight off here, but for anything other than viewing currently playing, and maybe a few other things, you need premium to choose a track, and control the player.

lud@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y

I suspect that Spotify restricts the connect capabilities and/or API to premium users.

But since Spotify free has always been unusable, I don't see the problem.

Andy@programming.dev · 6 pts · 2y

ncspot is great, spotify-tui is another, and in the past I've had some success using mopidy-spotify and an mpd frontend (a discontinued but very cool one called Cantata).

noodlejetski@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y

I like spotify-qt on desktop. it disconnects from time to time on its own, but otherwise it works just fine.

https://github.com/kraxarn/spotify-qt/

Harry_h0udini@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 2y