tbeemster / spot

Native Spotify client for the GNOME desktop

Spot

Gtk/Rust native Spotify client for the GNOME desktop. Only works with premium accounts!

Based on librespot.

Installing

(thanks dpeukert!)

Features

Only works with premium accounts!

• minimal playback control (play/pause, prev/next, seeking)
• library browser (saved albums and playlists)
• album and artist search
• artist view
• credentials management with Secret Service
• MPRIS integration

Planned

• playlist management (creation and edition)
• proper play queue implementation
• translate app
• liked tracks
• GNOME search provider?
• smarter search?
• recommendations?

Building

With GNOME Builder and flatpak

Pre-requisite: install the org.freedesktop.Sdk.Extension.rust-stable SDK extension with flatpak. Builder might do this for you automatically, but it will install an older version; make sure the version installed matches the version of the Freedesktop SDK GNOME uses (at the time of writing: 20.08).

Open the project in GNOME Builder and make the dev.alextren.Spot.development.json configuration active. Then build :)

Manually

Requires Rust (stable), GTK3, and a couple other things. Also requires libhandy1: it is not packaged on all distros at the moment, you might have to build it yourself.

Build dependencies on Ubuntu 20.04 for instance: build-essential pkg-config meson libssl-dev libglib2.0-dev-bin libgtk-3-dev libasound2-dev libpulse-dev.

Then, with meson:

meson target -Dbuildtype=debug -Doffline=false --prefix="$HOME/.local"
ninja install -C target

This will install a .desktop file among other things, and the spot executable will be put in .local/bin (you might want to add it to your path).