ncspot
Cross-platform ncurses Spotify client written in Rust, inspired by ncmpc and the likes. (by hrkfdn)
spotifyd
A spotify daemon (by Spotifyd)
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| ncspot | spotifyd | |
|---|---|---|
| 50 | 43 | |
| 4,609 | 9,544 | |
| - | 0.8% | |
| 8.9 | 7.3 | |
| 4 days ago | 3 days ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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.
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[DWM] Black and White High Contrast Rice
https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot Terminal Spotify
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TUI for cyberdecks?
Unmaintained for years. ncspot is active: https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot
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Spot - a simple spotify CLI made in python
ncspot, https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot
- Show HN: Lofi, a Tiny Spotify Player
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Spot (Native Spotify client for GNOME) seems unmaintained.
November 2018
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"Your complex is simple to me." - Anonymous KDE Operator
have a look at ncspot :)
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Spotifyd
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/
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Alternative Spotify clients?
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.
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CRT TV+VCR Trinitron as a retro media player Raspberry powered with QML gui
Check out https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot I've found it better than any of the other tui based Spotify clients
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Question about Spotify package
ncspot, https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot - pull request, https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/33600
spotifyd
Posts with mentions or reviews of spotifyd.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-21.
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Ask HN: How is the Spotify app so bad?
For those unaware, it's possible to use alternative clients for Spotify using a 3rd party daemon.
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Use Spotify made for Developers
[Unit] Description=A spotify playing daemon Documentation=https://github.com/Spotifyd/spotifyd Wants=sound.target After=sound.target Wants=network-online.target After=network-online.target [Service] ExecStart=/usr/bin/spotifyd --no-daemon Restart=always RestartSec=12 [Install] WantedBy=default.target
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Update on the suggestion for Spotify to take ownership of the Flatpak
you don't need another frontend. preferred client to handle streaming for spotify-tui is spotifyd.
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Spotify users, do you recommend spotify-easyrpm or the flatpak?
If you're using a premium account, you could also try to use the browser to control and spotifyd to play: https://github.com/Spotifyd/spotifyd
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Trying to make e ink device with Linux. Kind of lost
If you want to run Spotify on a Raspberry (or PinePhone or some other device), there’s Spot, which is great, but kinda heavy and slow. There’s Spotify-qt which is faster, requires messing with Spotify developer dashboard, and UI doesn’t fit on small screens. Spotify-qt is itself based on Spotify-tui which runs in the terminal (pretty cool IMO). And a bare client/daemon is spotifyd. So you have quite a few choices there.
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I used a Raspberry Pi and Arduino to fix/upgrade an old broken Jukebox
Spotifyd runs on Linux, can also be recognized by Spotify app as an output requires premium, not sure about touch screen compatability
- As a micro services expert, I know the fix for that: did you try sticking it into a systemd daemon that restarts it automatically when it crashes?
- Spotifyd
- spotifyd: open source Spotify client running as a UNIX daemon
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ncspot and spotifyd you can also consider the following projects:
spotify-tui - Spotify for the terminal written in Rust 🚀
raspotify - A Spotify Connect client that mostly Just Works™
polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar
librespot - Open Source Spotify client library
spotify-qt - Lightweight Spotify client using Qt
cava - Cross-platform Audio Visualizer
spotify-cli - Control Spotify playback on any device through the command line.
playerctl - 🎧 mpris media player command-line controller for vlc, mpv, RhythmBox, web browsers, cmus, mpd, spotify and others.
spot - Native Spotify client for the GNOME desktop
spotify-adblock - Adblocker for Spotify