Spotube: An open source, cross-platform Spotify client
Open source Spotify client that doesn't require Premium nor uses Electron! Available for both desktop & mobile!
https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotubeOpen linkView original on infosec.pub169
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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.
What are those open source alternatives you mention?
A few are mentioned here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Spotify#Third-party_clients
Are those Spotify alternative clients just for a better ux?
Yeah, but I don't really use them, so not the best person to ask. :)
I don't really see any false advertising. It is explicitly described as exactly what it is.
I guess it lacks the suggestion algo but that's the privacy compromise I guess.
No, it's not.
It says it's a "Spotify client". It simply isn't.
Read the next few words
Because people like me want all my spotify playlists regardless of where they are getting streamed.
Yeah, I tried it and the quality wasn't great
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 😊
Nice to have a tin ear sometimes
Yeah. It's both kind of useless if you already have spotify and very misleading.
Read the description imo
I've been using this for a little while now on Android. I believe it works by using Spotify track data and your account there to then use YouTube's audio to feed your the music you ask for. It's seamlessly done. So far it's meeting all my streaming music needs, even if it is sometimes a little uneven in performance.
Man I love open-source for such things. But wait does Spotify really have an API? I didn't know that
Yes, they do! You can even look up additional information about songs like the bpm, gebre, etc., I am tempted to do some project with it.
Why not using musicbrainz for that?
I use it to switch playback between my phone and computer using a keyboard shortcut.
Very useful actually.
Aside of the cross-platform why this one and not Innertune?
Ytm has TERRIBLE recommendations
Does innertune support Spotify playlists etc?
Unfortunately there’s currently no way to prevent it from automatically loading on your Mac ;-)
I’m absolutely going to give this a try. Thanks for posting!
I am not sure how legal this is, since Spotify exposes the API only for premium customers. But have a look at this project that is written in Rust and uses the aforementioned API to stream
I don't even think any apps that use the API are allowed to use "Spot" in their name.
https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/design
I've seen some some other projects that scrape Spotify instead to get their curated playlists, then use Piped & Invidious instances to identify and stream the track file from YouTube
Unfortunately Spotube doesn't play podcasts
I like it a lot, but for some reason almost all players on Android, that make use of YT have this issue, it stops playing track or two randomly. And then I have to manually put it to the next song or try to launch that particular track several times. Harmony Music and Blackhole do not have this issue. Recomendations aren't there though. I have less issues on Linux version.
Spotube Appimage is down. Impossible to launch it ask for libjpeg.so.8 and after installing it something wrong with webkit. WFF .
You have to create a spotify account for it to work? Sorry!
Well, it uses the spotify service. The least thing spotify can ask for is an offical account if you're going to use their API.
On the Github page it says that the app has anonymous login feature. Idk how exactly it works though