spotifyd VS spicetify-cli

For those unaware, it's possible to use alternative clients for Spotify using a 3rd party daemon.

https://github.com/Spotifyd/spotifyd

[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

you don't need another frontend. preferred client to handle streaming for spotify-tui is spotifyd.

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

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.

Spotifyd runs on Linux, can also be recognized by Spotify app as an output requires premium, not sure about touch screen compatability

There's spicetify, which you can use to remove podcasts from and customize the UI of the desktop client:

https://github.com/spicetify/spicetify-cli

Anyone wondering, I'm using Spicetify on my computer together with some extra extensions to get what the image shows. It works for both Windows & Mac and it's pretty easy and free to set up. If it's highly requested, I can fix a guide on how to fix this. Otherwise, most stuff can be found on https://spicetify.app/docs/getting-started and install lyrics-plus https://github.com/spicetify/spicetify-cli/tree/master/CustomApps/lyrics-plus via the terminal to get the translated lyrics for bare minimum.

Here is Spicetify: https://github.com/spicetify/spicetify-cli

The Spicetify theme is Dribbblish (Beach-Sunset). I looked through the GitHub repo and funnily enough, the only mention of Star Wars that I could find is a commit that was supposed to disable the easter egg...

What about spicetify? It is FOSS and has an adblock extension which works flawlessly

If your on desktop use SpotX, or you cant use Spicetify, the only downside of spicetify is that you cant queue songs unless you already have premium but atleast its highly customizable.