Spotify-Qt

on macOS, unfortunately, this was a painful experience. on startup, after setting up the Spotify app keys, the app froze while refreshing (audio) devices. it slowed down, stopped working, and had to be force quit.

I was looking forward to a snazzy spotify desktop ui!

Re: Spotify-Qt

#5

Post by jeroenhd » Tue, May 09, 2023, 11:25 PM UTC

> Note: Controlling playback requires Spotify Premium.

Too bad.

Re: Spotify-Qt

#6

Post by meh8881 » Tue, May 09, 2023, 11:27 PM UTC

Spotify web client with Adblock works best imo. No shuffle playing of albums. Or “shuffled” radio playlists. Don’t even need premium.

Re: Spotify-Qt

#7

Post by soganess » Tue, May 09, 2023, 11:34 PM UTC

https://github.com/jpochyla/psst

This is a similar (actively maintained) app also based on librespot.

Re: Spotify-Qt

#8

Post by smoldesu » Tue, May 09, 2023, 11:37 PM UTC

soganess wrote: post #7

https://github.com/jpochyla/psst This is a similar (actively maintained) app also based on librespot.

https://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.

Re: Spotify-Qt

#9

Post by soganess » Tue, May 09, 2023, 11:39 PM UTC

smoldesu wrote: post #8

soganess wrote: post #7

https://github.com/jpochyla/psst This is a similar (actively maintained) app also based on librespot.

https://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.

This is new to me and I'm digging it. It says something about spotify that so many people seem to want to reinvent the wheel.

Re: Spotify-Qt

#10

Post by zokier » Tue, May 09, 2023, 11:47 PM UTC

Spotify client has interesting history, originally it was very tight, raw win32 I believe, than iirc they transitioned to Qt and finally few iterations of the "modern" web based stack. Fun fact, the original client was developed by the same person as ScummVM, OpenTTD, and original uTorrent.