spotifyd vs spotify-adblock

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spotifyd		spotify-adblock
	Project
43	Mentions	41
9,544	Stars	1,730
0.8%	Growth	-
7.3	Activity	2.2
1 day ago	Latest Commit	11 days ago
Rust	Language	Rust
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	-

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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.

Ask HN: How is the Spotify app so bad?
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Mar 2024

For those unaware, it's possible to use alternative clients for Spotify using a 3rd party daemon.
https://github.com/Spotifyd/spotifyd
Use Spotify made for Developers
1 project | dev.to | 1 Dec 2023

[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
Update on the suggestion for Spotify to take ownership of the Flatpak
1 project | /r/linuxmasterrace | 12 May 2023

you don't need another frontend. preferred client to handle streaming for spotify-tui is spotifyd.
Spotify users, do you recommend spotify-easyrpm or the flatpak?
1 project | /r/openSUSE | 3 May 2023

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
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.
I used a Raspberry Pi and Arduino to fix/upgrade an old broken Jukebox
2 projects | /r/DIY | 26 Dec 2022

Spotifyd runs on Linux, can also be recognized by Spotify app as an output requires premium, not sure about touch screen compatability
As a micro services expert, I know the fix for that: did you try sticking it into a systemd daemon that restarts it automatically when it crashes?
1 project | /r/programmingcirclejerk | 25 Dec 2022
Spotifyd
1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 19 Dec 2022

1 project | /r/hackernews | 19 Dec 2022
spotifyd: open source Spotify client running as a UNIX daemon
3 projects | /r/programming | 19 Dec 2022

spotify-adblock

Posts with mentions or reviews of spotify-adblock. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-05.

help me peter): i don’t know if i’m the ???? boy or the spotify girl
1 project | /r/PeterExplainsTheJoke | 8 Dec 2023

i use this one for my pc
V3: The Ultimate Spotify Ad Blocking guide (Windows, Mac, Browser, Android, IOS, etc)
10 projects | /r/Piracy | 5 Jul 2023

Honestly you guys are probably smart enough to figure this one out so I’ll just link the GitHub link here. It’s also because I don’t have any Linux machines so I have no experience with this but many on here have said good things about it. Just follow the instructions on the GitHub and you should be fine.
Any alternatives to Spotify?
3 projects | /r/Piracy | 29 May 2023

For linux and mac os - https://github.com/abba23/spotify-adblock
Spotify addkiller fedora
1 project | /r/linux4noobs | 6 May 2023
Spotify adblock help
1 project | /r/SteamDeck | 15 Apr 2023

I feel kinda dumb rn because I got this to work a while ago but the updates wiped the adblock package. Not a big deal right? except i have no clue how i got it to work in the first place, and nothing i do now seems to work. Errors after errors. Has anyone else installed it successfully (and remembers how)?
Which streaming service do y’all use to listen to music and why?🤔trying to decide who to join
2 projects | /r/deathgrips | 20 Mar 2023

Pirated spotify subscription : * https://github.com/xManager-App/xManager * https://github.com/abba23/spotify-adblock
Spotify desktop client for linux
1 project | /r/Piracy | 24 Dec 2022
Mais alguém está farto do anúncio do spotify do João Só que nos convida a ouvir as suas novas canções em dueto com talentosissimas cantoras e compositoras que ele tanto admira?
5 projects | /r/portugal | 23 Dec 2022
spotifyd: open source Spotify client running as a UNIX daemon
3 projects | /r/programming | 19 Dec 2022
UPDATED: The Ultimate Spotify Ad Blocking guide (Windows, Mac, Browser, Android, IOS, etc) (Mac users rejoice)
13 projects | /r/Piracy | 4 Nov 2022

Honestly you guys are probably smart enough to figure this one out so I’ll just link the GitHub link here. It’s also because I don’t have any Linux machines so I have no experience with this but many on here have said good things about it. Just follow the instructions on the GitHub and you should be fine.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing spotifyd and spotify-adblock you can also consider the following projects:

raspotify - A Spotify Connect client that mostly Just Works™

xManager-Spotify - Ad-Free, New Features & Freedom [Moved to: https://github.com/xManager-App/xManager]

librespot - Open Source Spotify client library

BlockTheSpot - Video, audio & banner adblock/skip for Spotify

spotify-qt - Lightweight Spotify client using Qt

SpotX-Win - Blocking ads and updates for the desktop version of Spotify, disabling podcasts and more. [Moved to: https://github.com/amd64fox/SpotX]

spotify-cli - Control Spotify playback on any device through the command line.

spotblock-rs - A spotify advertisment muter for Pipewire

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

uYouPlus - uYou+ is a modified version of uYou (made by @MiRO92) with additional features and mainly made for non jailbroken users!

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

alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.