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

  • blkpws@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    https://inthesetimes.com/article/spotify-military-industrial-complex-daniel-ek-prima-materia-helsing

    Better forget of Spotify.

    • NicerLemmyUser@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

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

    • NicerLemmyUser@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      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!

        • blkpws@lemmy.ml
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          8 months ago

          Yeah right, at that time I didn't know where I had my phone, now that I found it I tested the app and I only can play music from the main tab, but the tab "search" and "library" is asking me to log in... xD sadness

  • Andy@programming.dev
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    8 months ago

    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).

  • lud@lemm.ee
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    8 months 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
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      8 months 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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        8 months 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.

  • noodlejetski@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    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/