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Re: Spotify-Qt

#21
Gave it a quick spin on Windows and it's incredibly slow to drag the window around, no idea why but I'd guess it's redrawing for every frame.

Interesting though, could be good if it offers better playlist management, for instance I'd like to see all artists who's songs I've liked.

Re: Spotify-Qt

#23
post #6

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

Your playback quality is still (I consider, severely) restricted[1], among other features I might not be aware of. They might also start injecting ads into the audio stream soon, if they realise ad blocking methods are popular (Twitch has done this for example). [1]: https://support.spotify.com/us/article/audio-quality

They might also start injecting ads into the audio stream soon

...just like how broadcast radio works?

Re: Spotify-Qt

#24

Gave it a quick spin on Windows and it's incredibly slow to drag the window around, no idea why but I'd guess it's redrawing for every frame. Interesting though, could be good if it offers better playlist management, for instance I'd like to see all artists who's songs I've liked.

Unfortunately, it also cannot find my audio device (I have several connected), so it failed at the the one job it really had.

Re: Spotify-Qt

#25

Gave it a quick spin on Windows and it's incredibly slow to drag the window around, no idea why but I'd guess it's redrawing for every frame. Interesting though, could be good if it offers better playlist management, for instance I'd like to see all artists who's songs I've liked.

Unfortunately, it also cannot find my audio device (I have several connected), so it failed at the the one job it really had.

On the other hand, this Rust-based one called Psst looks awesome and works: https://github.com/jpochyla/psst

Re: Spotify-Qt

#27

Gave it a quick spin on Windows and it's incredibly slow to drag the window around, no idea why but I'd guess it's redrawing for every frame. Interesting though, could be good if it offers better playlist management, for instance I'd like to see all artists who's songs I've liked.

Unfortunately, it also cannot find my audio device (I have several connected), so it failed at the the one job it really had.

You have windows mixer for that, which allows you to select audio device for any app

Re: Spotify-Qt

#28
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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.

Take literally any super popular program and you will find tons of alternative clients.

Re: Spotify-Qt

#29
Been using this for maybe a year or something. It is superb, like the original used to be, and should be! Thank you for this effort.
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