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

    • NicerLemmyUser@lemm.eeOP
      12·
      1 year 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!

    • NicerLemmyUser@lemm.eeOP
      6·
      1 year 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!

  • lud@lemm.ee
    9·
    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.eeOP
      2·
      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?

      • Rand0mA@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 year ago

        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·
        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.

  • Andy@programming.dev
    8·
    1 year 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).