aspotify vs spot

aspotify

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

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spot

Native Spotify client for the GNOME desktop (by xou816)

Gnome Rust Spotify gtk-rs gtk4

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aspotify		spot
	Project
1	Mentions	47
42	Stars	2,199
-	Growth	-
2.3	Activity	5.2
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	13 days ago
Rust	Language	Rust
-	License	MIT 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

spot

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

Spot – A Native Spotify client for the GNOME desktop
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Mar 2024
2023 Dec 4 Stickied -FAQ- & -HELPDESK- thread - Boot problems? Power supply problems? Display problems? Networking problems? Need ideas? Get help with these and other questions!
8 projects | /r/raspberry_pi | 6 Dec 2023
Spotify-Qt
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 May 2023

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 the best Linux has ever been. Truly.
2 projects | /r/Fedora | 25 Apr 2023

They are back https://github.com/xou816/spot
Ok, I'm joining! BUT...
6 projects | /r/linux_gaming | 18 Apr 2023

Spotify desktop client sucks. I'm using browser or Spot as alternatives.
FOSS Alternatives to Spotify for Linux
2 projects | /r/privacy | 12 Apr 2023
Spot - a simple spotify CLI made in python
5 projects | /r/commandline | 23 Mar 2023

spot is also the Spotify client for Gnome, https://github.com/xou816/spot
Show HN: Lofi, a Tiny Spotify Player
11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Mar 2023
Spot, a Spotify client for GNOME, is being revived!
4 projects | /r/gnome | 25 Feb 2023

Contribute to development in Spot’s GitHub repository
Spot (Native Spotify client for GNOME) seems unmaintained.
4 projects | /r/gnome | 10 Feb 2023

Hello fellow GNOME enthusiasts. I think I'm not the only one that happily uses the beautiful native Spotify client Spot.

What are some alternatives?

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

widevine-l3-guesser

spotify-qt - Lightweight Spotify client using Qt

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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