SwSpotify VS ncspot

this, I wanted to make a little utility for getting lyrics for whatever song is currently playing on spotify[1] and ran into the issue for getting the song name without using the API since that's just inconvenient for the end user. The most popular such project does go that way though.[2]

I ended up writing a small library that does that locally cross-platform by using the metadata from the app.[3] The approach is probably not as robust as the API, but much faster and works well.

[1] https://github.com/SwagLyrics/SwagLyrics-For-Spotify

[2] https://github.com/johnwmillr/LyricsGenius

[3] https://github.com/SwagLyrics/SwSpotify

https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot Terminal Spotify

Unmaintained for years. ncspot is active: https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot

ncspot, https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot

November 2018

have a look at ncspot :)

Have tried this several times but I find it drops off the network as a remote play device.

If you have a PC with the Spotify app running, that appears as a remote play device to other clients.

Otherwise I found ncspot to be more reliable than spotifyd: https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot/

ncspot is good, although it's maybe the client least likely to mesh with the whole "let a music player control lights in my room" mentality.

Check out https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot I've found it better than any of the other tui based Spotify clients

ncspot, https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot - pull request, https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/33600