aspotify vs ncspot

aspotify

Deprecated in favour of rspotify: https://github.com/ramsayleung/rspotify (by KaiJewson)

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ncspot

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

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aspotify		ncspot
	Project
1	Mentions	50
42	Stars	4,625
-	Growth	-
2.3	Activity	8.9
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	5 days ago
Rust	Language	Rust
-	License	BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License

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aspotify

Posts with mentions or reviews of aspotify. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-16.

Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust
20 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Aug 2021

This app does, too. It uses aspotify[0], which is just a rust spotify wrapper.
https://github.com/KaiJewson/aspotify

ncspot

Posts with mentions or reviews of ncspot. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-06.

[DWM] Black and White High Contrast Rice
1 project | /r/suckless | 7 Jun 2023

https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot Terminal Spotify
TUI for cyberdecks?
3 projects | /r/cyberDeck | 6 Apr 2023

Unmaintained for years. ncspot is active: https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot
Spot - a simple spotify CLI made in python
5 projects | /r/commandline | 23 Mar 2023

ncspot, https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot
Show HN: Lofi, a Tiny Spotify Player
11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Mar 2023
Spot (Native Spotify client for GNOME) seems unmaintained.
4 projects | /r/gnome | 10 Feb 2023

November 2018
"Your complex is simple to me." - Anonymous KDE Operator
1 project | /r/linuxmasterrace | 6 Feb 2023

have a look at ncspot :)
Spotifyd
17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Dec 2022

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/
Alternative Spotify clients?
3 projects | /r/linux | 5 Dec 2022

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.
CRT TV+VCR Trinitron as a retro media player Raspberry powered with QML gui
3 projects | /r/raspberry_pi | 9 Oct 2022

Check out https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot I've found it better than any of the other tui based Spotify clients
Question about Spotify package
6 projects | /r/voidlinux | 28 Sep 2022

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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing aspotify and ncspot you can also consider the following projects:

widevine-l3-guesser

spotify-tui - Spotify for the terminal written in Rust 🚀

psst - Fast and multi-platform Spotify client with native GUI

spotifyd - A spotify daemon

react-native-windows - A framework for building native Windows apps with React.

polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar

SwSpotify - Cross-platform library to get the currently playing song and artist from Spotify w/o using the API or the internet. Very fast.

librespot - Open Source Spotify client library

SwagLyrics-For-Spotify - 📃 Get lyrics of currently playing Spotify song so you don't sing along with the wrong ones and embarrass yourself later. Very fast.

cava - Cross-platform Audio Visualizer

insomnia - The open-source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, SSE and gRPC. With Cloud, Local and Git storage.

playerctl - 🎧 mpris media player command-line controller for vlc, mpv, RhythmBox, web browsers, cmus, mpd, spotify and others.