spotify-qt VS Akira

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.

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).

spotify-qt, https://github.com/kraxarn/spotify-qt - in the repos

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)

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.

> 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

I really wish Akira (https://github.com/akiraux/Akira) had worked out :/

Possibly Akira?

Akira ⭐ 4k+ 🍴 200+

i found the best way to make svgs is to use figma until https://github.com/akiraux/Akira goes stable

Adobe XD Alternatives: Figma, Penpot, Akira, Pencil Project

Akira. This app is still in early development, but I think it is a really nice project. It is a vector graphic editor, graphic design software and vector art app.

Thanks! I had only found Akira https://github.com/akiraux/Akira

It's a big project for sure, but Alessandro Castellani is the dev for Akira that I could see being the blueprint/framework for the app. Check out his talk at edw where he demo Akira: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_Lyx550Js8 .