ncspot VS lofi

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

Ran it on a "real" OSS project of mine (https://github.com/dvx/lofi/), and it was stuck at 99% loading for about 30 minutes. Then, when it finally parsed the codebase, when asked anything it always returns "Error: Internal error while locating sources."

At one point, this random prompt popped up: https://imgur.com/a/mYeluaU —what's "Onboard?"

In readme[0] small footprint named as an advantage instead:

> Design goals

> ≤ 100MB memory footprint

[0] https://github.com/dvx/lofi#design-goals

I do think that podcasting is ripe for disruption and a great candidate for a "super app" that can end up being people's go-to to listen to podcasts and be exposed to new ones.

Spotify did literally nothing to actually support podcasting as another vertical--which it 100% is. Podcasting isn't just "music" and it's a profound misunderstanding to believe that it is. It's honestly embarrassing to think that all they had to do is buy out Joe Rogan. To this day, I mostly listen to podcasts on YouTube. Spotify doesn't have transcripts, scrubbing, chapters, discoverability, "shorts," etc., etc. I run an open source Spotify player[1] and their API doesn't even have a podcast type/category (lol, they are actually "music videos" in the JSON payload). It's like podcasts don't even exist.

If anyone wants to build a podcasting platform, hit me up :)

[1] https://github.com/dvx/lofi/

Don't mean to hijack this thread, but I built out a mini Spotify player with visualization support: https://github.com/dvx/lofi

Even had a few folks contribute a couple of neat visualizations :)

Release notes are available here.

This is awesome! Will try to add it to the next release of https://github.com/dvx/lofi