donnc/spotube

A lightweight free Spotify 🎧 desktop-client 🖥 which handles playback manually, streams music using Youtube & no Spotify premium account is needed 😱

Spotube is a Flutter based lightweight spotify client. It utilizes the power of Spotify & Youtube's public API & creates a hazardless, performant & resource friendly User Experience

Features

Following are the features that currently spotube offers:

• Open Source
• No telementry, diagnostics or user data collection
• Lightweight & resource friendly
• Native performance (Thanks to Flutter+Skia)
• Playback control is on user's machine instead of server based
• Small size & less data hungry
• No spotify or youtube ads since it uses all public & free APIs (But it's recommended to support the creators by watching/liking/subscribing to the artists youtube channel or add as favourite track in spotify. Mostly buying spotify premium is the best way to support their valuable creations)
• Lyrics
• Downloadable track (WIP)

Installation

I'm always releasing newer versions of binary of the software each 2-3 month with minor changes & each 6-8 month with major changes. Grab the binaries

All the binaries are located in the releases, just download

Windows

Extract the Spotube-windows-x86_64-setup.exe & double click on install.bat & follow along the installer

Linux

• Ubuntu/Debian

  sudo apt install spotube-linux-x86_64.deb
  or
  sudo dpkg -i spotube-linux-x86_64.deb

• Others:

  Navigate to the downloaded Spotube_linux-x86_64.AppImage file & double click to run it

I'll/try to upload the package binaries to linux debian/arch/ubuntu/snap/flatpack/redhat/chocolatey stores or software centers or repositories

Configuration

There are some configurations that needs to be done to start using this software

You need a spotify account & a developer app for

• clientId
• clientSecret

Grab credentials:

• Go to https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard/login & login with your spotify account (Skip if you're logged in)

• Create an web app for Spotify Public API

• Give the app a name & description. Then Edit settings & add http://localhost:4304/auth/spotify/callback as Redirect URI for the app. Its important for authenticating

• Click on SHOW CLIENT SECRET to reveal the clientSecret. Then copy the clientID, clientSecret & paste in the Spotube's respective fields

Also, you need a genius account for lyrics & a API Client for

• accessToken

Note!: No personal data or any kind of sensitive information won't be collected from spotify. Don't believe? See the code for yourself

TODO:

• Compile, Debug & Build for MacOS
• Add support for show Lyric of currently playing track
• Track download
• Support for playing/streaming podcasts/shows
• Artist, User & Album pages

Things that don't work

• Shows & Podcasts aren't supported as it'd require premium anyway
• OS Media Controls
• Global Media Shortcuts/Keyboard Media Buttons

Social handlers

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