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

  • lud@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    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
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      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?

      • lud@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        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.