Open source Spotify client that doesn’t require Premium nor uses Electron! Available for both desktop & mobile!
But it’s not a Spotify client, is it?
IIRC it uses Spotify APIs to generate playlists, but that’s all.
Actual music gets streamed from YouTube.Thanks. I was interested how it was getting access to Spotify music library and suggestion algorithms but turns out it just isn’t.
Wonder why is trying to pretend to be Spotify when it could just market itself as a YouTube music interface.
I don’t know why, but personally it really rubs me the wrong way.
It’s not really “false advertising”, since it’s not a paid app, but still…
Real open source alternatives exist, but they require Spotify Premium to actually stream music legally straight from Spotify.
Man I love open-source for such things. But wait does Spotify really have an API? I didn’t know that
Doesn’t work without a Spotify account. No playlist downloads. Eats ram on my laptop like crazy. But it looks nice.
You have to create a spotify account for it to work? Sorry!
On the Github page it says that the app has anonymous login feature. Idk how exactly it works though
Given the revelation that it hooks into Spotify to get playlists etc, I really wish there wasn’t that strong of a dependency on Spotify, and that I could just search for songs and start playing.
I was hoping for more YouTube music player, and less Spotify.
I have Spotify Premium which I pay for, and the desktop client is very fast and snappy to play songs. SpotTube is OK, but it isn’t as snappy as Spotify. For something that is free, that is absolutely fine, but the fact it requires Spotify for playlist etc…
I definitely get why. Spotify does playlist generation like no other, and it is the biggest platform by far. But I kind of wish I had a version that wasn’t all about the algorithms.
Also, the way you “login” to Spotify on the desktop is incredibly user un-friendly at best, and incredibly brittle at worst. Copying and pasting a cookie that Spotify uses shouldn’t be used as a way to login to any service, like, at all. And if Spotify are smart, they’ll break this functionality within a month or so using something like Fingerprint.js to identify which device the session belongs to, thus invalidating the session.
Youtube Music alt players are all over the place. Blackhole, ViMusic, Innertune, Revanced to name a few
I had no idea! Thanks for the list, I’ll check them out!
EDIT: It seems like a lot of these are Android apps. I was looking for desktop apps if I was being honest. That, and I have an iPhone.
Oh, maybe these?
