Show HN: Spotatui, a Spotify TUI/GUI without web API rate limits
Spotatui is a community-maintained, Rust-based terminal music player that supports multiple streaming sources including Spotify, YouTube, and local files. It offers advanced features like synced lyrics, audio visualization, and Lua plugin support without requiring the official Spotify app.
Why it matters
This tool represents the growing trend of open-source, privacy-focused, and highly customizable alternatives to proprietary media streaming platforms.
A terminal music player written in Rust, powered by Ratatui Native Spotify streaming, synced lyrics, a real-time audio visualizer, local file, Subsonic/Navidrome, Internet Radio, YouTube, and Qobuz sources, plus Apple Music on macOS. Spotify is optional.
About Features Installation Desktop app (preview) Quickstart Adding Spotify later Music Sources Local Files Subsonic / Navidrome Internet Radio YouTube Qobuz Apple Music AI DJ Native Streaming Configuration Discord Rich Presence Anonymous Song Counter GitHub Profile Widget Plugins Performance Playback Requirements Audio Visualizer Using with spotifyd Migrating from spotify-tui Song History Star History Libraries used Development Windows Subsystem for Linux Help Wanted Maintainer Code signing policy spotatui Contributors Upstream Contributors (spotify-tui) Roadmap About A community-maintained, actively developed fork of spotify-tui that has since diverged on multiple fronts.
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