GitHub - KRTirtho/spotube: 🎧 Open source Spotify client that doesn't require Premium nor uses Electron! Available for both desktop & mobile!
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🎧 Open source Spotify client that doesn't require Premium nor uses Electron! Available for both desktop & mobile! - KRTirtho/spotube

Open source Spotify client that doesn’t require Premium nor uses Electron! Available for both desktop & mobile!

  • sanpo@sopuli.xyz
    1141·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • Neato@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      441·
      10 months ago

      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.

      • sanpo@sopuli.xyz
        383·
        10 months ago

        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.

      • Lunch@lemmy.world
        3·
        10 months ago

        Yup, tried it for a week straight now on both desktop and android, and although a great application, it isn’t quite ready for me to transfer to it fully at least. But defo keeping a close eye on the development 😊