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Not Spotify, but for Pandora nothing beats pianobar[1]. I've been using it for years and it's just a delight. No bloated interface, simple and quick to use. 1: https://6xq.net/pianobar/ or https://github.com/PromyLOPh/pianobar
Another interesting one is https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot This actually implements the reverse-engineered Spotify protocol and authenticates as a Spotify Connect device. To avoid Spotify being mad and potential legal problems, they implemented artificial limitations that block you from extracting the audio files unencrypted or using premium features on free accounts. A skilled Rustecean could probably dea…
By the way with puppeteer you can login and intercept the bearer auth token to masquerade as the web player.
Reminder that there is also CMUS[1] for those of us who prefer pointing to a library of MP3s. 1: https://cmus.github.io/
Now that you bring console music players to the discussion, I admit that I have never understood how to use ncmpc/ncmpcpp.
Also a shoutout to xmms2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMMS2
This is awesome! I've been looking for an alternative to the bloated Electron mess that is Spotify's UI for a long time. It leaks memory like a sieve on Linux and is generally a pain to use. I'll try this out later.
You need to have the official Spotify app open in order to play songs
Is this news? There’s already a Spotify client for Emacs.
Emacs is about the only cross-platform environment I can think of that makes Electron look efficient ;)
More seriously, though: the heaviest of my Emacs processes right now is at around 28k of resident memory, while Rambox (Electron wrapper around Gmail and GCal, among potentially other things) is at 395MB + 195MB (presumably for the Gmail and GCal tabs) + some other more negligible subprocesses, and Slack is at 265MB. Total virtual/mapped memory is much higher for all of those (Emacs is still the lowest, at 541MB for the biggest process, while Rambox's are around 1GB each and Slack's is at a "mere" 20.8GB).
Granted, my Emacs processes are doing a bit less than any of the Electron processes, but I still think you've got things the wrong way round :)
Not Spotify, but for Pandora nothing beats pianobar[1]. I've been using it for years and it's just a delight. No bloated interface, simple and quick to use. 1: https://6xq.net/pianobar/ or https://github.com/PromyLOPh/pianobar
It would be cool to see separate commands for simple operations like stop, play, and skip without having to even open the tui
This is awesome! I've been looking for an alternative to the bloated Electron mess that is Spotify's UI for a long time. It leaks memory like a sieve on Linux and is generally a pain to use. I'll try this out later.