spot VS spotify-qt

Compare spot vs spotify-qt and see what are their differences.

spot

Native Spotify client for the GNOME desktop (by xou816)

spotify-qt

Lightweight Spotify client using Qt (by kraxarn)
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5.2 8.9
25 days ago 6 days ago
Rust C++
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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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.

spotify-qt

Posts with mentions or reviews of spotify-qt. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-09.
  • Spotify-Qt
    1 project | /r/hypeurls | 9 May 2023
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 May 2023
  • Trying to make e ink device with Linux. Kind of lost
    4 projects | /r/diyelectronics | 6 Jan 2023
    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.
  • Flatpak Spotify vs Tab in Firefox browser
    5 projects | /r/Fedora | 22 Dec 2022
    Would like to add that you can also use clients such as spotify-qt and Spotify TUI to control said "device". There's also Spot and psst that are standalone (librespot not required but no Connect functionality).
  • Question about Spotify package
    6 projects | /r/voidlinux | 28 Sep 2022
    spotify-qt, https://github.com/kraxarn/spotify-qt - in the repos
  • linux good windows bad
    4 projects | /r/linuxmemes | 14 Dec 2021
    You could use an an unofficial client, for example: - Spot (GTK, can stream directly) - spotify-qt (QT, just a Spotify connect frontend, so you need something like spotifyd running) - spotify-tui (terminal, again just a Spotify connect frontend) - spotifyd (daemon that is controlled via Spotify connect)
  • Warum ist die Spotify App so schlecht?
    2 projects | /r/FragReddit | 22 Nov 2021
  • TIL that Facebook DMCA‘d the GitHub repository for the Unofficial Instagram API (used by many archiving tools)
    2 projects | /r/DataHoarder | 9 Jul 2021
    IIRC, Spotify requires that you be a premium user to have API access to be able to use unofficial native clients like this one, and Discord will straight up ban your account if you try to use a third party client too much. BetterDiscord is a mod for the first-party client, so it behaves similarly enough that it's difficult for them to detect it. But it happened to a friend of mine that was using the WeeChat plugin while it was still being developed. There's plenty of other instances of similar situations with other services.
  • Is there a music player app that can play Spotify? The Spotify official/AUR/snap/flatpak client always crashes.
    2 projects | /r/ManjaroLinux | 19 Apr 2021
  • Do you want Linux phones?
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Mar 2021
    > Spotify is a big ask because google would have to port widevine (the web DRM.)

    Spotify shouldn't be a problem [0][1] using librespot [2]. As for banking, I can't speak for all of Europe, but web apps are generally optimized for desktop use, apps have some convinient features, like scanning the QR code of a bill and pay it with one tap, instead of having to type in everything manually when it's on paper, or copy paste it from a PDF.

    Additionally some banks require an app for 2FA for the web interface on PC too.

    [0] https://github.com/kraxarn/spotify-qt

What are some alternatives?

When comparing spot and spotify-qt you can also consider the following projects:

widevine-l3-guesser

spotifyd - A spotify daemon

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

com.spotify.Client

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

Clementine - :tangerine: Clementine Music Player

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

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

cspot - A Spotify Connect player targeting, but not limited to embedded devices (ESP32).

librespot - Open Source Spotify client library

Akira - Native Linux App for UI and UX Design built in Vala and GTK