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Open-Source Spotify frontends

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Are there any open-source spotify frontends? If there aren’t, why not?

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lud@lemm.ee
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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.

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NicerLemmyUser@lemm.eeOP
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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?

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Rand0mA@lemmy.world
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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.

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lud@lemm.ee
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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.

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