BIbigyabai·Jul 27, 2025
Reminiscent of Spot for Linux, another great shortcut-oriented streaming interface for those of you who ditched the Mac: https://github.com/xou816/spot
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- hrkfdn/ncspot · linked in 2 of the same discussions
- rigellute/spotify-tui · linked in 2 of the same discussions
- toothbrush/spotiqueue · linked in 2 of the same discussions
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| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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18 sourcesSpot – A Native Spotify client for the GNOME desktop
3 points · Open discussionIf you have Spotify Premium, it's been possible for years to set up a Spotify Connect receiver, and you can control your connect receivers via API, so it is in fact possible to use a third party client, if one exists.
Spot knocked it out of the park with this approach. If you just want the Spotify Receiver, you could use the underlying library that doubles as a CLI, librespot, but Spot serves as a nice example of using the Spotify APIs to actually search your library and control the receiver without the Spotify app and handles this all for you.
https://github.com/xou816/spot
In Spotify HiFi is still MIA after three years, and now so is my subscriptionhttps://github.com/xou816/spot
Also this one, which I've come around to quite like :)
ncspot is another amazing option if you're comfortable with the terminal.
In Spotify-Qthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28203654#28207594
> https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui https://github.com/xou816/spot
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28203654&p=2#28206619
> macOs … https://github.com/toothbrush/Spotiqueue
In Show HN: Lofi, a Tiny Spotify Playerhttps://github.com/xou816/spot still works for me.
I use that on my Pinephone to play music.
If/when that stops, to continue playing music on my Pinephone will require migrating to a self-managed collection. Disappointing but doable.
Can anyone recommend DRM free music providers?
In Please continue supporting iOS/Android streaming SDKsYou mentioned needing to reverse engineer the API for browsing etc.
I think you can just see what Spot [0] does instead!
[0] https://github.com/xou816/spot
In Unofficial Spotify Client for the Nintendo Switch (PoC)True.
Well, mostly: You can use Spotify Premium, thanks to Spot: https://github.com/xou816/spot
(I could go into bridging WhatsApp over Matrix, or using WhatsApp Web, but I realize that that's most likely too painful for most. Also, Waydroid makes lots of things work, but the side-effects on battery life made it seem impractical to me, to be honest.)
In Two Years of Life with PinePhoneThere are some alternative frontends for Spotify available. None of the ones I found works on M1 mac, but Windows and Linux users have some options available.
https://github.com/jpochyla/psst
https://github.com/toothbrush/Spotiqueue
https://github.com/xou816/spot
In Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?Give Spot a try
https://github.com/xou816/spot
In HP Dev One Laptop with Pop_OSNice, bookmarked it.
For anyone on GNOME I'd recommend Spot
https://github.com/xou816/spot
In Sunset of libspotifyI think it's a huge pity that we're so reliant on platforms instead of protocols - there would be native Slack clients for every platform. Few companies even allow proper API access.
Spotify buck the trend, Spot is a fantastic app
https://github.com/xou816/spot
In Is the madness ever going to end?Spot: GTK/Rust native Spotify client
2 points · Open discussionHi, the author here. Psst is definitely in alpha, and the CLI is indeed just an example (it's what I was using to test the core mechanisms). I'm sorry the accessibility is so bad now, but Druid, the GUI library, takes it very seriously -- which is not very common in custom GUI frameworks. So, fingers crossed, it should get better soon.
Re. command-line Spotify clients, there is ncspot[1] and spotify-tui[2], and if you use Linux, Spot[3] looks like a nice GTK experience.
[1] https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot
[2] https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui
[3] https://github.com/xou816/spot
In Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in RustI've been using Spot[0], which is another Rust Spotify client using GTK.
[0]: https://github.com/xou816/spot
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