Spotube: An open source, cross-platform Spotify client
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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!
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