Gtk/Rust native Spotify client for the GNOME desktop. Only works with premium accounts!
Based on librespot.
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
- playlist management (creation and edition)
- proper play queue implementation
- translate app
- liked tracks
- GNOME search provider?
- smarter search?
- recommendations?
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 :)
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).