Cider VS librespot

Compare Cider vs librespot and see what are their differences.

Cider

A new cross-platform Apple Music experience based on Electron and Vue.js written from scratch with performance in mind. 🚀 (by ciderapp)

librespot

Open Source Spotify client library (by librespot-org)
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Cider librespot
243 48
6,924 4,262
0.9% 1.8%
7.2 7.8
7 days ago 5 days ago
JavaScript Rust
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 MIT License
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Cider

Posts with mentions or reviews of Cider. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-08.
  • How iTunes Is Changing on PC
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Feb 2024
    It's basically a open source frontend for Apple Music that works on Linux and Windows. It's what I use to listen to my Apple Music songs on Linux, and it's amazing.

    [1]: https://cider.sh/

  • Apple Music/Windows 11 still completely sucks!
    3 projects | /r/AppleMusic | 6 Jul 2023
    Try Cider! Someone recommended it to me and it's been so much better than using iTunes so far. https://cider.sh/
    3 projects | /r/AppleMusic | 6 Jul 2023
    Use the web version or cider , I use cider and it’s pretty cool, it has some extra features like audio enhancement and themes.
    3 projects | /r/AppleMusic | 6 Jul 2023
  • Which music streaming app has the best user interface and in app features?
    3 projects | /r/headphones | 19 May 2023
    For Apple Music maybe you can try Cider. The windows version of Apple Music is very bad, but development is in progress.
  • iTunes substitute?
    2 projects | /r/MacOS | 12 May 2023
    Cider Is such a good alternative for the music app / iTunes. And cross-platform too!
  • Not Good At All!!
    2 projects | /r/AppleMusic | 8 May 2023
    On Windows look for Cider > https://cider.sh/
    2 projects | /r/AppleMusic | 8 May 2023
    they abandoned itunes ages ago, use cider
  • Apple Music and Discord
    4 projects | /r/AppleMusic | 11 Apr 2023
    You can get it from GitHub releases or winget if you follow the steps in their README.
  • Music app all my playlists from 20 years has been jumbled up
    2 projects | /r/MacOSBeta | 19 Mar 2023
    All I can suggest is the sometimes-maligned-for-community-reasons Cider, which is an Electron based application - Apple have never made Apple Music APIs work on macOS, so the only option is to hack around with JavaScript and the web APIs (yes, you read that right - there is no native developer interface on macOS for Apple Music; that's how much Tim Cook doesn't give a fuck about Macs). This means no lossless support, but it's quite solid in other respects and generally much more stable and faster (despite its very inefficient technology framework) than the native application.

librespot

Posts with mentions or reviews of librespot. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-06.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Cider and librespot you can also consider the following projects:

raspotify - A Spotify Connect client that mostly Just Worksâ„¢

Apple-Music-Electron - Apple Music Electron is now deprecated. See our new project Cider https://github.com/ciderapp/Cider

spotifyd - A spotify daemon

apple-music-discord-rpc - 🎵 Discord Rich Presence Client for the macOS Apple Music app and iTunes

BetterDiscord - Better Discord enhances Discord desktop app with new features.

spicetify-cli - Command-line tool to customize Spotify client. Supports Windows, MacOS, and Linux.

ncspot - Cross-platform ncurses Spotify client written in Rust, inspired by ncmpc and the likes.

libuv - Cross-platform asynchronous I/O

spocon - SpoCon - A Spotify Connect Client for Debian , Ubuntu and Raspberry Pi based on librespot-java

apple-music-for-linux - Access your Apple Music library from Linux

xManager-Spotify - Ad-Free, New Features & Freedom [Moved to: https://github.com/xManager-App/xManager]

SpotX - Blocking ads and updates for the desktop version of Spotify, disabling podcasts and something else. [Moved to: https://github.com/SpotX-CLI/SpotX-Win]