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🎧 Open source Spotify client that doesn't require Premium nor uses Electron! Available for both desktop & mobile! - KRTirtho/spotube

Open source Spotify client that doesn’t require Premium nor uses Electron! Available for both desktop & mobile!

  • sanpo@sopuli.xyz
    1141·
    9 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@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      441·
      9 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@sopuli.xyz
        383·
        9 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.

      • Lunch@lemmy.world
        3·
        9 months ago

        Yup, tried it for a week straight now on both desktop and android, and although a great application, it isn’t quite ready for me to transfer to it fully at least. But defo keeping a close eye on the development 😊

  • wagoner@infosec.pub
    22·
    9 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.

    • maiskanzler@feddit.de
      17·
      9 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.

    • lud@lemm.ee
      3·
      9 months ago

      I use it to switch playback between my phone and computer using a keyboard shortcut.

      Very useful actually.

  • beepnoise@beehaw.org
    5·
    9 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.

  • sramder@lemmy.world
    4·
    9 months ago

    Unfortunately there’s currently no way to prevent it from automatically loading on your Mac ;-)

    I’m absolutely going to give this a try. Thanks for posting!

  • prashanthvsdvn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago

    I am not sure how legal this is, since Spotify exposes the API only for premium customers. But have a look at this project that is written in Rust and uses the aforementioned API to stream

  • skaifer@lemmings.world
    1·
    9 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.