I have been using this but it finds music on yt, sometimes finding wrong songs or just not finding them at all. Though I have to admit it's really cool!

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 months ago

This is my main music app these days.

Occasionally spotty (pun intended) but otherwise awesome.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I use Spotify-player together with Spotifyd.

Spotify-player can play music on it's own but I prefer to use it with Spotifyd so that I can close Spotify-player without stopping the music.

Spotify-tui like someone else mentioned is great. Unfortunately it's abandoned and doesn't work well anymore.

[–] NicerLemmyUser@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I have seen most, if not all spotify frontends (that actually play music from spotify rather than finding the stream on yt) require spotify premium. Why is that so?

[–] Rand0mA@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Presumably it makes use of API access.

I may be slight off here, but for anything other than viewing currently playing, and maybe a few other things, you need premium to choose a track, and control the player.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I suspect that Spotify restricts the connect capabilities and/or API to premium users.

But since Spotify free has always been unusable, I don't see the problem.

[–] Andy@programming.dev 7 points 8 months ago

ncspot is great, spotify-tui is another, and in the past I've had some success using mopidy-spotify and an mpd frontend (a discontinued but very cool one called Cantata).

[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

I like spotify-qt on desktop. it disconnects from time to time on its own, but otherwise it works just fine.

https://github.com/kraxarn/spotify-qt/

[–] Harry_h0udini@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago

Blackhole