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Cross-platform Spotify alternatives? (self.opensource)

submitted 1 year ago by mulcahey to c/[email protected]

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I'm looking for a FOSS alternative to Spotify, preferably one that works across Android, MacOS, and Windows.

Does anything like that exist?

On Android, I'm using ViMusic. Works great!
On MacOS, I've tried nuclear and Spotube. Neither seems to work great.
Haven't tried anything on Windows yet.

Suggestions appreciated. Thanks lemmy!

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[–] prashanthvsdvn 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure about android but Psst is a rust based Spotify client that compiles nicely for Linux, Mac and Windows.

[–] mulcahey 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's an interesting project! But it looks like it requires a Spotify Premium account. So is it just Spotify in a different skin?

[–] prashanthvsdvn 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah Spotify exposes their API only for premium customers. Calling the project as a different skin is undermining them. The entire project was done to access Spotify without the messy bloat of electron. If you didn’t know electron, it’s just a chrome instance running in background masquerading as different app.

Alternatively if you have the music with you, you can Selfhost a music server and stream from that, making it your own personal Spotify, in a manner.