spotifyd
A spotify daemon (by Spotifyd)
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A Desktop App for YouTube Music (by ytmdesktop)
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| spotifyd | ytmdesktop | |
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| 43 | 86 | |
| 9,546 | 3,474 | |
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| 7.3 | 9.5 | |
| 5 days ago | 2 months ago | |
| Rust | TypeScript | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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.
https://github.com/Spotifyd/spotifyd
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Use Spotify made for Developers
[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
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Update on the suggestion for Spotify to take ownership of the Flatpak
you don't need another frontend. preferred client to handle streaming for spotify-tui is spotifyd.
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Spotify users, do you recommend spotify-easyrpm or the flatpak?
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
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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
- 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?
- Spotifyd
- spotifyd: open source Spotify client running as a UNIX daemon
ytmdesktop
Posts with mentions or reviews of ytmdesktop.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-04.
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YT Music RVX Alternatives (Open Source YT Music Clients)
YTMDesktop
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New Web UI with Collapsible Sidebar
The desktop app i use is:: https://ytmdesktop.app/ Sadly it hasn't been updated in a while. Really wish it would. Im on the beta but its just missing some things the newest UI has and functions
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Who are these people?
Officially it is browser only, though you can make it a Chrome app. There are open source Electron wrappers for it though which will make it a “desktop app” in the same sense that Spotify/Tidal is a “desktop app” (The Spotify and Tidal “desktop apps” are also just Electron wrappers for their browser versions).
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YT Music desktop app?
https://ytmdesktop.app/ is the most popular of these afaik.
- Youtube Music App
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How to get rid of annoying dark-gray sidebar on the right side of YouTube Desktop app when minimized? I just want the album art to display without that sidebar.
Oh shit! you're right! I just checked and saw that it was made by some dude or a team of contributors. I guess I should have paid more attention while downloading and installing it
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Is there any official app for Windows? How can I download my songs on my desktop? I cannot see that option, like when on youtube videos
I hadn’t heard about this, I take it this is the one you were mentioning? https://ytmdesktop.app/
- [Youtube Music] Cette application YTM Desktop est-elle sûre?
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Chrome or Firefox extensions
This sounds like you just need https://ytmdesktop.app
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What is a good desktop app that is not YTM desktop?
I like YT Desktop it's cross platform and open source (if that matters)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing spotifyd and ytmdesktop you can also consider the following projects:
raspotify - A Spotify Connect client that mostly Just Works™
youtube-music - YouTube Music Desktop App bundled with custom plugins (and built-in ad blocker / downloader)
librespot - Open Source Spotify client library
mMusicCast - Chromecast emulator that works on any platform. Stream videos from youtube to raspberry pi or any computer with the chromecast protocol.
spotify-qt - Lightweight Spotify client using Qt
Discord-Bot - A discord bot that can play music, moderate, log events and more
spotify-cli - Control Spotify playback on any device through the command line.
Google-Play-Music-Desktop-Player-UNOFFICIAL- - A beautiful cross platform Desktop Player for Google Play Music
ncspot - Cross-platform ncurses Spotify client written in Rust, inspired by ncmpc and the likes.
nuclear - Streaming music player that finds free music for you
spotify-tui - Spotify for the terminal written in Rust 🚀
Darkorbit-client - Open source darkorbit client (cross-platform and with better performance)
spotifyd vs raspotify
ytmdesktop vs youtube-music
spotifyd vs librespot
ytmdesktop vs mMusicCast
spotifyd vs spotify-qt
ytmdesktop vs Discord-Bot
spotifyd vs spotify-cli
ytmdesktop vs Google-Play-Music-Desktop-Player-UNOFFICIAL-
spotifyd vs ncspot
ytmdesktop vs nuclear
spotifyd vs spotify-tui
ytmdesktop vs Darkorbit-client