spotify-tui VS LyricsGenius

It was at this point I was getting a lot of joy out of writing command line applications. I had also just learnt of the existence of spotify-tui and wanted to explore more I could build such applications. So building interfaces for APIs felt like a good way to try this out.

If you are handy with a terminal, spotify-tui is my favorite Spotify controller I’ve ever used. No bullshit at all.

I switched to linux recently and iam loving it the speed and CLI tools that linux provides are amazing you can do anything imaginable in the terminal i use Spotify in the terminal navigate very very fast using auto-jump and its just easier than navigating all those uis and using the keyboard for everything is way faster and easier on your hand than the mouse and keyboard combination especially if you use a window manager

I dont know if it counts but I have used spotify tui on my pi400 a while ago link

November 2019

For example, there's a couple reddit clients, YouTube viewers, Spotify clients and many many more.

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.

Ah, that makes sense. There appear to be some specific workarounds: https://github.com/johnwmillr/LyricsGenius https://github.com/philipredstone/simple-genius-lyrics-scraper

this, I wanted to make a little utility for getting lyrics for whatever song is currently playing on spotify[1] and ran into the issue for getting the song name without using the API since that's just inconvenient for the end user. The most popular such project does go that way though.[2]

I ended up writing a small library that does that locally cross-platform by using the metadata from the app.[3] The approach is probably not as robust as the API, but much faster and works well.

[1] https://github.com/SwagLyrics/SwagLyrics-For-Spotify

[2] https://github.com/johnwmillr/LyricsGenius

[3] https://github.com/SwagLyrics/SwSpotify

It looks like there's also a couple of wrappers for this, including this python code: https://github.com/johnwmillr/LyricsGenius

A quick search lands on the LyricsGenius wrapper, and one that i personally used before is the Spotipy wrapper. Incorporate those in your project, start small by breaking it up into easy to achieve things like creating a function that searches on Genius and gives you something back etc.