Are there any open-source spotify frontends? If there aren’t, why not?
Spot is a native Spotify client for gnome.
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Yeesh, that is objectionable. I miss when I was in the dark about this, thanks a lot.
Wow, didn’t know about this and never would’ve expected this. I guess sometimes we should expect the unexpected. Thanks for this article!
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.
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?
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.
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.
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).
I like
spotify-qton desktop. it disconnects from time to time on its own, but otherwise it works just fine.
