Spotify-Qt

Spotify client has interesting history, originally it was very tight, raw win32 I believe, than iirc they transitioned to Qt and finally few iterations of the "modern" web based stack. Fun fact, the original client was developed by the same person as ScummVM, OpenTTD, and original uTorrent.

Spotify web client with Adblock works best imo. No shuffle playing of albums. Or “shuffled” radio playlists. Don’t even need premium.

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jpochyla&#x2F;psst">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jpochyla&#x2F;psst</a><p>This is a similar (actively maintained) app also based on librespot.

If the main selling point is that it&#x27;s a lightweight alternative, it would be good to include some details in the readme (e.g. RAM usage, CPU, etc).<p>And then detail how packaging it as a Snap undoes all their hard work.

Using the Spotify Rest API it is already possible to build nice feature rich Spotify clients for remote players. I don&#x27;t think there is a supported native playback library? I&#x27;m not sure how local playback is implemented in this project.<p>The main problem I have with the Spotify API is that its remote playback management API is limited&#x2F;incompatible with some players (Sonos).

Gave it a quick spin on Windows and it&#x27;s incredibly slow to drag the window around, no idea why but I&#x27;d guess it&#x27;s redrawing for every frame.<p>Interesting though, could be good if it offers better playlist management, for instance I&#x27;d like to see all artists who&#x27;s songs I&#x27;ve liked.

Been using this for maybe a year or something. It is superb, like the original used to be, and should be! Thank you for this effort.

on macOS, unfortunately, this was a painful experience. on startup, after setting up the Spotify app keys, the app froze while refreshing (audio) devices. it slowed down, stopped working, and had to be force quit.<p>I was looking forward to a snazzy spotify desktop ui!

Neat! I wonder if it&#x27;s possible to achieve a similar project for Deezer.

What are the dangers of running this?

&gt; Note: Controlling playback requires Spotify Premium.<p>Too bad.

I quit Spotify when I found out they don&#x27;t have a &quot;block song&quot; feature on the desktop app. They have it on their mobile app, but it only applies locally to that device.<p>Realized I was paying for YouTube premium, which comes with Music included. Better deal IMO.