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This is awesome! I've been looking for an alternative to the bloated Electron mess that is Spotify's UI for a long time. It leaks memory like a sieve on Linux a
by isatty 7y ago
This is awesome! I've been looking for an alternative to the bloated Electron mess that is Spotify's UI for a long time. It leaks memory like a sieve on Linux and is generally a pain to use.
I'll try this out later.
- keliris 7y agoAs a light weight alternative to the official client, you can try https://github.com/Spotifyd/spotifyd https://github.com/Spotifyd/spotifyd `spotify-tui` uses the Spotify Web API, which doesn't handle streaming itself, so as of now you'll need a spotify client that handles streaming. In the future, I'll see if I can integrate this into the project for a more complete package.
- Scarbutt 7y agoYou need to have the official Spotify app open in order to play songs
- yellowapple 7y agoOr spotifyd, which provides the necessary shimmage to do the streaming.
- Insanity 7y agoI don't find it to be more of a mess than any other electron application though. So that's.. something. My main issue with the snap install (debian) browsing for songs became slow initially. The UI will be there but it'll just show 'no results' for basically any search until after a minute or so.
- SmellyGeekBoy 7y agoMy issue with the snap installed (Ubuntu in my case) is that Spotify still doesn't handle scaling properly, so I keep having to modify the launcher to add a command line switch for the scaling factor. Of course, every time the app updates, snap overwrites my changes...
- lucsky 7y agoThe Spotify client is indeed an ugly bloated mess but is it not based on Electron and never has been. It's using Chromium Embedded Framework (aka CEF): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_Embedded_Framework https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_Embedded_Framework