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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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[–] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 113 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] BurnedOliveTree@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, I tried it and the quality wasn't great

[–] LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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 😊

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Nice to have a tin ear sometimes

[–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah. It's both kind of useless if you already have spotify and very misleading.

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Read the description imo

[–] Neato@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 points 1 year 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.