As a light weight alternative to the official client, you can try https://github.com/Spotifyd/spotifyd https://github.com/Spotifyd/spotifyd `spotify-tui` uses

As 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.