knobby VS spoti-dl

This github project is a small remote with a rotary encoder and display on an esp32 that uses everynoise https://github.com/quadule/knobby you can select by country/genre and random, it can also be used to play and control your own playlists. It is an extremely well polished piece of software. I am not the dev, i built a couple of them though.

Everynoise is awseome, i found this https://github.com/quadule/knobby and built one. Finding new music, and different stuff. It plays merry hell with spotifys algorithm for generated playlists lol.

This is a major feature. An example is this project https://github.com/quadule/knobby a spotify remote control on tt-go t-display. Its very battery friendly because the screen isn't on much, click the rotary encoder - boom its back in a second or two including connecting to wifi, spotify api and retrieving now playing info

https://github.com/quadule/knobby is an interesting project. While its not what op asked for, it turns esp32 into remote control for spotify. You can switch output devices, play playlists. The main goal though is finding new genres through everynoise api, its quite clever how this is done using genre + country and finding similar genres to ones you like. A side effect of using it is Spotify's own suggested playlists suddenly become more eclectic.

The app is spoti-dl: https://github.com/dhruv-ahuja/spoti-dl. This was the project that got me my first job, as a self-taught dev, and now I've overhauled it to be much better than it was initially. I wrote rust bindings for all the core part of the app, and have added parallel downloads plus several other improvements. These changes enable roughly 4.5x improvement for me, which can be more/less depending on your internet speed mostly.

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