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
    2·
    9 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
      1·
      9 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
        1·
        9 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.