spotifyd
A spotify daemon (by Spotifyd)
mkchromecast
Cast macOS and Linux Audio/Video to your Google Cast and Sonos Devices (by muammar)
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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.
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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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
- spotifyd: open source Spotify client running as a UNIX daemon
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Spotifyd
None of the maintainer staff use Windows, but a working PR that doesn’t cause any regressions would likely be accepted.
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Electron apps won't run on Wayland
Spotify https://github.com/Spotifyd/spotifyd
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Good way to backup systemctl services?
https://github.com/Spotifyd/spotifyd/blob/master/contrib/spotifyd.service and the service file, see how it has WantedBy=default.target under [Install]? pretty sure it starts/enables when that target is reached during the init process of the system.
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Using a Raspberry Pi as a Bluetooth Speaker with PipeWire
Better yet would be to use spotifyd[0] for this. I tried to set this up with my RPi a while ago but was defeated by Linux audio. Instead I just bought a Sonos. Oh, well.
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Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here! (35/2022)!
I'm trying to cross-compile Spotifyd for a 64-bit Raspberry Pi. But whatever I try, I end up with an error at the final linking step:
mkchromecast
Posts with mentions or reviews of mkchromecast.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-07.
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Stream to Chromecast with resolved, vlc and bash
You can forward a Chrome window to it via your web browser, or you can use something like https://mkchromecast.com/ to push local videos to it.
- Trying to switch to Firefox from Chrome..
- What software do you miss from Windows & macOS?
- Screencasting
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What would be the best way to fill a tiny house with excellent audio?
The extra bandwidth from WiFi would be much appreciated, but it might be problematic to setup as a standard speaker on Linux. I found mkchromecast seems to be the best solution but it comes with up to 4 sec. latency (per https://github.com/muammar/mkchromecast/wiki/ALSA ) which is not acceptable for gaming and movies.
Video games won't work with >1 sec. delay, and it seems to be an issue with mkchromecast per https://github.com/muammar/mkchromecast/issues/61 .
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[oc] ytcast: cast YouTube videos to your smart TV from command-line
chromecast is somehow expected to not work with ytcast since they don't use the DIAL protocol anymore but switched to mDNS for discovery. mDNS support is something I'd like to add in the future, but at the moment I don't own a chromecast so I can't tinker with it. mkchromecast should work with chromecast.
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I found a way to use Chromecast with Spotify
This is a bit convoluted because we are doing Airplay -> Chromecast instead of directly playing to Chromecast, but I was having problems with the Mkchromecast with long audio delays of +8 seconds. With this method I have an audio delay of max 2 seconds.
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how to send movie from PC to TV?
This might be what you need... https://mkchromecast.com/
What are some alternatives?
When comparing spotifyd and mkchromecast you can also consider the following projects:
raspotify - A Spotify Connect client that mostly Just Works™
librespot - Open Source Spotify client library
spotify-qt - Lightweight Spotify client using Qt
spotify-cli - Control Spotify playback on any device through the command line.
gnomecast - Chromecast local files from Linux - supports MKV, subtitles, 5.1 sound and 4K!
ncspot - Cross-platform ncurses Spotify client written in Rust, inspired by ncmpc and the likes.
spotify-tui - Spotify for the terminal written in Rust 🚀
spotify-adblock - Adblocker for Spotify
open-sonos-controller - Lightweight sonos remote cotrol for linux
AirConnect - Use AirPlay to stream to UPnP/Sonos & Chromecast devices
addon-spotify-connect - Spotify Connect - Home Assistant Community Add-ons