It's kinda unfortunate that there is still no real replacement for libspotify on Windows, and that you have to have the desktop application installed and running.
Librespot should work under Windows. There's multiple audio backends available, some are platform specific.
> We recently switched to using Rodio for audio playback by default, hence for macOS and Windows, you should just be able to clone and build librespot (with the command below).
I built a self hosted Spotify alternative a while back. The idea was to be able to listed to your own music from anywhere with most of the useful features of Spotify.
Totally unrelated: why is the "bug" emoji a caterpillar (https://emojipedia.org/bug/)? Ok, you could say all insects (including preliminary stages) can be called bugs, but if you did a poll, probably most would imagine a bug as a beetle or a "true bug" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemiptera)...
+1. There's even "beetle" [0.a], "cockroach" [0.b] and "fly" [0.c] emoji in the Unicode, that are way closer to what I envision as a "software bug" than caterpillars, centipedes (!)[2.c] and even slugs (!!)[1.a] that are used to represent the "bug" you've linked [1].
And yes, technically it should be a moth [2], probably (?).
At a previous job we used https://gitmoji.dev, which scrumoji is based on. At some point I started using the ladybug emoji for bugs because it's actually a bug while my colleagues kept using the caterpillar emoji because they preferred caterpillars. I thought it was a nice way to bring some individuality into our commit messages!
A possibly apocryphal reply to theologians who inquired if there was anything that could be concluded about the Creator from the study of creation; as described in "Homage to Santa Rosalia, or why are there so many kinds of animals" by G. Evelyn Hutchinson in American Naturalist (May-June 1959); This alludes to the fact that there are more types of beetles than any other form of insect, and more insects than any other kind of animal.
I really wish we could see a low-resource-usage development movement akin to the lofi / retro gaming trend (playdate etc) . I have MS Office 2003 installed on my thinkpad and it starts instantly. It's very satisfying. I feel like apps just grow and grow in size and memory usage to match the average spec of machine instead of being truly thrifty
Psst seems to be missing a lot of basic functionality at this point. E.g. you can't reorder albums, they are presented in the order they were added to your library. It's promising but I can't see myself using it day-to-day in its current state.
I wish there was a mature, non-Electron Spotify client that worked in Linux. I just use the web because the official Linux client is so flaky.
Spotify-tui is the only one that implements connect functionality, and even then it doesn't have the extended auto-mixes that spotify plays when you're playlist ends.
I'm glad there are options for alternative native clients, but none of them are anywhere near feature parity with the official client
I wish there was more movement in the native GUI space, at the moment it feels like everything (even official clients from companies that have the funds to have native developers for every platform) are built in a web technology.
It feels like you get the OS's native toolkit - which is fine, it just means you can't easily have one design across multiple operating systems - and tools like QT which go back decades. I know there's some GUI toolkits for new languages like Go and Rust, but they're often very barebones and since there's no commercial interest in them, they don't develop into full-scale native UI libraries.
I mean as a compromise, is React Native a thing for desktop applications yet?
As a Linux user, I've given up on alternative Spotify clients. The official client sucks... but at least it works consistently and has full feature support.
Instead of replacing it, I've resolved to minimize my interaction with the client as much as possible via rofi[1] and media shortcuts.
> For Lofi to show currently playing tracks, Spotify needs to be actually running! Start playing something in Spotify (you can minimize the app afterwards) and Lofi should work as expected.
So it's a visualizer, not a player. Can it work without having the Spotify app running?
I'm currently using librespot on my headless rpi acting as a spotify-enabled speaker but sometimes it has sync errors, so I'm in the market for alternative tiny players.
The Germans need to help us come up with a word for that feeling when you click on a project expecting to use it only to find it's another Electron type application and click back disappointed.
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This is an Electron app which requires another Electron app to be running at the same time. What a time to be alive.
"This" refers to the Spotify thing at the top of the page, which I have not tried!
It's kinda unfortunate that there is still no real replacement for libspotify on Windows, and that you have to have the desktop application installed and running.
Works like a charm
I would love to see a port of librespot for Windows, but my guess is that Spotify tolerates librespot, because it’s only available for *nix.
> We recently switched to using Rodio for audio playback by default, hence for macOS and Windows, you should just be able to clone and build librespot (with the command below).
The "recently" above was ~4 years ago!
https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot#readme
I built a self hosted Spotify alternative a while back. The idea was to be able to listed to your own music from anywhere with most of the useful features of Spotify.
https://github.com/yzdbg/dstream
One note: for loopback on macOS, instead of iShowU Audio Capture Device, one could also use BlackHole, which is open source: https://github.com/ExistentialAudio/BlackHole
And can be installed with brew:
And yes, technically it should be a moth [2], probably (?).
[0.a] https://emojipedia.org/beetle/ [0.b] https://emojipedia.org/cockroach/ [0.c] https://emojipedia.org/fly/ [1] https://emojipedia.org/bug/ [1.a] https://emojipedia.org/mozilla/firefox-os-2.5/bug/ [2] https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/worlds-fir...
A possibly apocryphal reply to theologians who inquired if there was anything that could be concluded about the Creator from the study of creation; as described in "Homage to Santa Rosalia, or why are there so many kinds of animals" by G. Evelyn Hutchinson in American Naturalist (May-June 1959); This alludes to the fact that there are more types of beetles than any other form of insect, and more insects than any other kind of animal.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/J._B._S._Haldane
Grab 80 Mbytes binary.[0]
[0] https://github.com/dvx/lofi/releases/tag/v1.6.1
> Design goals
> ≤ 100MB memory footprint
[0] https://github.com/dvx/lofi#design-goals
(don't hate me please, I write JS for a living and I need this job <_<)
I miss Billy - https://www.sheepfriends.com/index-page=billy.html
I really wish we could see a low-resource-usage development movement akin to the lofi / retro gaming trend (playdate etc) . I have MS Office 2003 installed on my thinkpad and it starts instantly. It's very satisfying. I feel like apps just grow and grow in size and memory usage to match the average spec of machine instead of being truly thrifty
https://github.com/jpochyla/psst
20210816 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28203654
I wish there was a mature, non-Electron Spotify client that worked in Linux. I just use the web because the official Linux client is so flaky.
> https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui https://github.com/xou816/spot
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28203654&p=2#28206619
> macOs … https://github.com/toothbrush/Spotiqueue
I'm glad there are options for alternative native clients, but none of them are anywhere near feature parity with the official client
It feels like you get the OS's native toolkit - which is fine, it just means you can't easily have one design across multiple operating systems - and tools like QT which go back decades. I know there's some GUI toolkits for new languages like Go and Rust, but they're often very barebones and since there's no commercial interest in them, they don't develop into full-scale native UI libraries.
I mean as a compromise, is React Native a thing for desktop applications yet?
Instead of replacing it, I've resolved to minimize my interaction with the client as much as possible via rofi[1] and media shortcuts.
[1]: https://github.com/davidborzek/spofi
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> For Lofi to show currently playing tracks, Spotify needs to be actually running! Start playing something in Spotify (you can minimize the app afterwards) and Lofi should work as expected.
So it's a visualizer, not a player. Can it work without having the Spotify app running?
I'm currently using librespot on my headless rpi acting as a spotify-enabled speaker but sometimes it has sync errors, so I'm in the market for alternative tiny players.
As opposed to playback, once it's playing, it's smooth, no complaint there.