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Native Spotify client for the GNOME desktop
https://github.com/xou816/spot

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Native Spotify client for the GNOME desktop

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# Spot [![spot-snapshots](https://github.com/xou816/spot/actions/workflows/spot-snapshots.yml/badge.svg?branch=master)](https://github.com/xou816/spot/actions/workflows/spot-snapshots.yml)



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



Based on [librespot](https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot/).



Join the discussion on [Matrix](https://matrix.to/#/#spot-devel:matrix.org).



![Spot screenshot](./data/appstream/2.png)



## Installing



Download on Flathub



## Usage notes



### Credentials



It is recommended to install a libsecret compliant keyring application, such as [GNOME Keyring](https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/GnomeKeyring) (aka seahorse). This will allow saving your password securely between launches.



In GNOME, things should work out of the box. It might be a bit trickier to get it working in other DEs: see this [ArchWiki entry](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME/Keyring) for detailed explanations on how to automatically start the daemon with your session.



Bear special attention to the fact that to enable automatic login, you might have to use the same password for your user account and for the keyring, and that the keyring might need to be [set as default](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME/Keyring#Passwords_are_not_remembered).



See [this comment](https://github.com/xou816/spot/issues/92#issuecomment-801852593) for more details!



### Login in with Facebook



...is not supported. However, you can update your account in order to be able to log in with a username and password [as explained in this issue](https://github.com/xou816/spot/issues/373).



### Settings



Spot can also be configured via `gsettings` if you want to change the audio backend, the song bitrate, etc.



### Seek bar warping

It is possible to click on the seek bar to navigate to that position in a song. If you are having issues with this not working you may have [gtk-primary-button-warps-slider](https://docs.gtk.org/gtk3/property.Settings.gtk-primary-button-warps-slider.html) set to false.

In order to fix this issue set the value to true in your gtk configuration.



### Scrobbling



Scrobbling is not supported directly by Spot. However, you can use a tool such a [rescrobbled](https://github.com/InputUsername/rescrobbled) ([see #85](https://github.com/xou816/spot/issues/85)).



### Lyrics



Similarly, Spot does not display lyrics for songs, but you can use [osdlyrics](https://github.com/osdlyrics/osdlyrics) ([see #226](https://github.com/xou816/spot/issues/226)).



### Gtk theme



Spot uses the dark theme variant by default; this can be changed in the settings.



If you are using the flatpak version, don't forget to install your theme with flatpak as well. See [this comment](https://github.com/xou816/spot/issues/209#issuecomment-860180537) for details.



Similarly, snap also requires that you install the corresponding snap for your theme. See [this comment](https://github.com/xou816/spot/issues/338#issuecomment-975543476) for details.



## Features



**Only works with premium accounts!**



- playback control (play/pause, prev/next, seeking, shuffle, repeat (none, all, song))

- selection mode: easily browse and select mutliple tracks to queue them

- browse your saved albums and playlists

- search albums and artists

- view an artist's releases

- view users' playlists

- view album info

- credentials management with Secret Service

- MPRIS integration

- playlist management (creation and edition)

- liked tracks



### Planned



- GNOME search provider?

- improved search? (track results)

- recommendations?



## Contributing



Contributions are welcome! If you wish, add yourself to the `AUTHORS` files when submitting your contribution.



For any large feature/change, **please** open an issue first to discuss implementation and design decisions.



### Translating



Translations are managed using `gettext` and are available in the `po/` subdirectory.



**Please use [POEditor](https://poeditor.com/join/project?hash=xfVrpQfRBM) to submit translations.**



If you feel like it, you are welcome to open a PR to be added to the `TRANSLATORS` file!



## 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.



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



### Manually



Requires Rust (stable), **GTK4**, and a couple other things. Also requires **libadwaita** and **blueprint-compiler**: they are not packaged on all distros at the moment, you might have to build them yourself!



With meson:



```

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

ninja install -C target

# to run test/linter/etc

meson test -C target  --verbose

```



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).



To build an optimized release build, use `-Dbuildtype=release` instead.



### Regenerating potfiles



When adding new `msgids`, don't forget to regenerate/update the potfiles.



```

ninja spot-pot -C target

ninja spot-update-po -C target

```



### Pulling updated strings from POEditor



We are now using POEditor and the wonderful [`poeditor-sync`](https://github.com/mick88/poeditor-sync) tool.



```

poeditor pull

```



### Regenerating sources for flatpak



Using [flatpak-cargo-generator.py](https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak-builder-tools/tree/master/cargo):



```

ninja cargo-sources.json -C target

```



### Debugging



Set the `RUST_LOG` env variable to the appropriate level.



Debug builds (flatpak) are available from the master branch on Github (see the `spot-snaphots` action).



Spot caches images and HTTP responses in `~/.cache/spot`.



Spot uses [isahc](https://github.com/sagebind/isahc), which uses libcurl, therefore you can set the `https_proxy` env variable to help with debugging. In debug mode, Spot skips SSL certificate verification.