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Spotube: An open source, cross-platform Spotify client (github.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 109 points 5 months ago (16 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.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 months ago (9 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.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What are those open source alternatives you mention?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

A few are mentioned here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Spotify#Third-party_clients

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Are those Spotify alternative clients just for a better ux?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah, but I don't really use them, so not the best person to ask. :)

[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't really see any false advertising. It is explicitly described as exactly what it is.

"An open source, cross-platform Spotify client compatible across multiple platforms utilizing Spotify's data API and YouTube, Piped.video or JioSaavn as an audio source, eliminating the need for Spotify Premium"

I guess it lacks the suggestion algo but that's the privacy compromise I guess.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No, it's not.

It says it's a "Spotify client". It simply isn't.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Read the next few words

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