gammastep vs ncspot

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

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gammastep		ncspot
	Project
11	Mentions	50
-	Stars	4,683
-	Growth	-
-	Activity	8.9
-	Latest Commit	4 days ago
	Language	Rust
-	License	BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License

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gammastep

Posts with mentions or reviews of gammastep. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-18.

How to setup blue light filter?
3 projects | /r/hyprland | 18 Apr 2023

I use gammastep for night light.
Thank you guys for the amazing work ! League working flawlessly with the updated lutris script.
3 projects | /r/leagueoflinux | 12 Apr 2023

It might be because you're on Wayland. If so, try gammastep.
can someone help me find this file?
1 project | /r/linux4noobs | 17 Mar 2023
The gammastep package was orphaned last year and could use an update
1 project | /r/debian | 14 Feb 2023
RedShift alternative for X11? (no desktop environment feature)
1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 28 Oct 2022

gammastep
f.lux
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Mar 2022
What apps are you running on Sway? (Wayland Native Apps of course)
20 projects | /r/swaywm | 7 Mar 2022

Night light: gammastep. Looking for alternatives
Night shift
2 projects | /r/swaywm | 10 Nov 2021

How about gammastep? Or wlsunset?
Why is Wayland the way that it is
7 projects | /r/archlinux | 21 Sep 2021

WLR Gamma Control was added to the protocol last year; I have no idea how mature you need this to be but at the very least things like gammastep exist.
What relatively simple program would you like to see on Linux?
9 projects | /r/linux | 16 Feb 2021

Like https://gitlab.com/chinstrap/gammastep ?

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 gammastep and ncspot you can also consider the following projects:

redshift - Redshift adjusts the color temperature of your screen according to your surroundings. This may help your eyes hurt less if you are working in front of the screen at night.

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

wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor

spotifyd - A spotify daemon

sway-borders - Fork of sway with some extra features, mainly related to borders.

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

guiscrcpy - A full fledged GUI integration for the award winning open-source android screen mirroring system -- scrcpy located on https://github.com/genymobile/scrcpy/ by @rom1v

librespot - Open Source Spotify client library

slurp - Select a region in a Wayland compositor

cava - Cross-platform Audio Visualizer

sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor

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