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Open source Spotify client that doesn’t require Premium nor uses Electron! Available for both desktop & mobile!
- sanpo ( @sanpo@sopuli.xyz ) 74•7 months ago
But it’s not a Spotify client, is it?
IIRC it uses Spotify APIs to generate playlists, but that’s all.
Actual music gets streamed from YouTube.- Neato ( @Neato@ttrpg.network ) English31•7 months ago
Thanks. I was interested how it was getting access to Spotify music library and suggestion algorithms but turns out it just isn’t.
Wonder why is trying to pretend to be Spotify when it could just market itself as a YouTube music interface.
- sanpo ( @sanpo@sopuli.xyz ) 31•7 months ago
I don’t know why, but personally it really rubs me the wrong way.
It’s not really “false advertising”, since it’s not a paid app, but still…
Real open source alternatives exist, but they require Spotify Premium to actually stream music legally straight from Spotify.
- mars296 ( @mars296@kbin.social ) 6•7 months ago
I don’t really see any false advertising. It is explicitly described as exactly what it is.
“An open source, cross-platform Spotify client compatible across multiple platforms utilizing Spotify’s data API and YouTube, Piped.video or JioSaavn as an audio source, eliminating the need for Spotify Premium”
I guess it lacks the suggestion algo but that’s the privacy compromise I guess.
- sanpo ( @sanpo@sopuli.xyz ) 15•7 months ago
No, it’s not.
It says it’s a “Spotify client”. It simply isn’t.
- Eyck_of_denesle ( @Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip ) 1•7 months ago
Read the next few words
- B0rax ( @B0rax@feddit.de ) 5•7 months ago
What are those open source alternatives you mention?
- sanpo ( @sanpo@sopuli.xyz ) 4•7 months ago
A few are mentioned here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Spotify#Third-party_clients
- Neato ( @Neato@ttrpg.network ) English2•7 months ago
Are those Spotify alternative clients just for a better ux?
- sanpo ( @sanpo@sopuli.xyz ) 1•7 months ago
Yeah, but I don’t really use them, so not the best person to ask. :)
- Eyck_of_denesle ( @Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip ) 1•7 months ago
Because people like me want all my spotify playlists regardless of where they are getting streamed.
- CALIGVLA ( @Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English9•7 months ago
Yeah. It’s both kind of useless if you already have spotify and very misleading.
- Eyck_of_denesle ( @Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip ) 1•7 months ago
Read the description imo
- wagoner ( @wagoner@infosec.pub ) 16•7 months ago
I’ve been using this for a little while now on Android. I believe it works by using Spotify track data and your account there to then use YouTube’s audio to feed your the music you ask for. It’s seamlessly done. So far it’s meeting all my streaming music needs, even if it is sometimes a little uneven in performance.
- GolfNovemberUniform ( @GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml ) 13•7 months ago
Man I love open-source for such things. But wait does Spotify really have an API? I didn’t know that
- maiskanzler ( @maiskanzler@feddit.de ) 13•7 months ago
Yes, they do! You can even look up additional information about songs like the bpm, gebre, etc., I am tempted to do some project with it.
- GravitySpoiled ( @GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml ) English5•7 months ago
Why not using musicbrainz for that?
- lud ( @lud@lemm.ee ) 3•7 months ago
I use it to switch playback between my phone and computer using a keyboard shortcut.
Very useful actually.
- helenslunch ( @helenslunch@feddit.nl ) 7•7 months ago
Doesn’t work without a Spotify account. No playlist downloads. Eats ram on my laptop like crazy. But it looks nice.
- beepnoise ( @beepnoise@beehaw.org ) 6•7 months ago
Given the revelation that it hooks into Spotify to get playlists etc, I really wish there wasn’t that strong of a dependency on Spotify, and that I could just search for songs and start playing.
I was hoping for more YouTube music player, and less Spotify.
I have Spotify Premium which I pay for, and the desktop client is very fast and snappy to play songs. SpotTube is OK, but it isn’t as snappy as Spotify. For something that is free, that is absolutely fine, but the fact it requires Spotify for playlist etc…
I definitely get why. Spotify does playlist generation like no other, and it is the biggest platform by far. But I kind of wish I had a version that wasn’t all about the algorithms.
Also, the way you “login” to Spotify on the desktop is incredibly user un-friendly at best, and incredibly brittle at worst. Copying and pasting a cookie that Spotify uses shouldn’t be used as a way to login to any service, like, at all. And if Spotify are smart, they’ll break this functionality within a month or so using something like Fingerprint.js to identify which device the session belongs to, thus invalidating the session.
- burgersc12 ( @burgersc12@mander.xyz ) 12•7 months ago
Youtube Music alt players are all over the place. Blackhole, ViMusic, Innertune, Revanced to name a few
- beepnoise ( @beepnoise@beehaw.org ) 4•7 months ago
I had no idea! Thanks for the list, I’ll check them out!
EDIT: It seems like a lot of these are Android apps. I was looking for desktop apps if I was being honest. That, and I have an iPhone.
- burgersc12 ( @burgersc12@mander.xyz ) 8•7 months ago
Oh, maybe these?
- beepnoise ( @beepnoise@beehaw.org ) 3•7 months ago
Thank you so very much!
- Chemical Wonka ( @chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de ) English2•7 months ago
Unfortunately Spotube doesn’t play podcasts
- skaifer ( @skaifer@lemmings.world ) 1•7 months ago
I like it a lot, but for some reason almost all players on Android, that make use of YT have this issue, it stops playing track or two randomly. And then I have to manually put it to the next song or try to launch that particular track several times. Harmony Music and Blackhole do not have this issue. Recomendations aren’t there though. I have less issues on Linux version.
- cmgvd3lw ( @cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de ) 1•7 months ago
You have to create a spotify account for it to work? Sorry!
- maiskanzler ( @maiskanzler@feddit.de ) 13•7 months ago
Well, it uses the spotify service. The least thing spotify can ask for is an offical account if you’re going to use their API.
- GolfNovemberUniform ( @GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml ) 9•7 months ago
On the Github page it says that the app has anonymous login feature. Idk how exactly it works though