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Spotify TUI

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Follow Alexander Keliris (Rigellute)

A Spotify client for the terminal written in Rust.

Demo

The terminal in the demo above is using the Rigel theme.

Installation

The binary executable is spt.

Homebrew

For both macOS and Linux

brew install spotify-tui

To update, run

brew upgrade spotify-tui

Snap

For a system with Snap installed, run

snap install spt

The stable version will be installed for you automatically.

If you want to install the nightly build, run

snap install spt --edge

AUR

For those on Arch Linux you can find the package on AUR here. If however you're using an AUR helper you can install directly from that, for example (in the case of yay), run

yay -S spotify-tui

Nix

Available as the package spotify-tui. To install run:

nix-env -iA nixpkgs.spotify-tui

Where nixpkgs is the channel name in your configuration. For a more up-to-date installation, use the unstable channel. It is also possible to add the package to environment.systemPackages (for NixOS), or home.packages when using home-manager.

Void Linux

Available on the official repositories. To install, run

sudo xbps-install -Su spotify-tui

Fedora/CentOS

Available on the Copr repositories. To install, run

sudo dnf copr enable atim/spotify-tui -y && sudo dnf install spotify-tui

Cargo

Use this option if your architecture is not supported by the pre-built binaries found on the releases page.

First, install Rust (using the recommended rustup installation method) and then

cargo install spotify-tui

This method will build the binary from source.

To update, run the same command again.

Note on Linux

For compilation on Linux the development packages for libssl are required. For basic installation instructions, see install OpenSSL. In order to locate dependencies, the compilation also requires pkg-config to be installed.

If you are using the Windows Subsystem for Linux, you'll need to install additional dependencies.

Windows 10

Scoop installer

First, make sure scoop installer is on your windows box, for instruction please visit scoop.sh

Then open powershell and run following two commands:

scoop bucket add scoop-bucket https://github.com/Rigellute/scoop-bucket
scoop install spotify-tui

After that program is available as: spt or spt.exe

Manual

  1. Download the latest binary for your OS.
  2. cd to the file you just downloaded and unzip
  3. cd to spotify-tui and run with ./spt

Connecting to Spotify’s API

spotify-tui needs to connect to Spotify’s API in order to find music by name, play tracks etc.

Instructions on how to set this up will be shown when you first run the app.

But here they are again:

  1. Go to the Spotify dashboard
  2. Click Create an app
    • You now can see your Client ID and Client Secret
  3. Now click Edit Settings
  4. Add http://localhost:8888/callback to the Redirect URIs
  5. Scroll down and click Save
  6. You are now ready to authenticate with Spotify!
  7. Go back to the terminal
  8. Run spt
  9. Enter your Client ID
  10. Enter your Client Secret
  11. Press enter to confirm the default port (8888) or enter a custom port
  12. You will be redirected to an official Spotify webpage to ask you for permissions.
  13. After accepting the permissions, you'll be redirected to localhost. If all goes well, the redirect URL will be parsed automatically and now you're done. If the local webserver fails for some reason you'll be redirected to a blank webpage that might say something like "Connection Refused" since no server is running. Regardless, copy the URL and paste into the prompt in the terminal.

And now you are ready to use the spotify-tui πŸŽ‰

You can edit the config at anytime at ${HOME}/.config/spotify-tui/client.yml. (for snap ${HOME}/snap/spt/current/.config/spotify-tui/client.yml)

Usage

The binary is named spt.

Running spt with no arguments will bring up the UI. Press ? to bring up a help menu that shows currently implemented key events and their actions. There is also a CLI that is able to do most of the stuff the UI does. Use spt --help to learn more.

Here are some example to get you excited.

spt --completions zsh # Prints shell completions for zsh to stdout (bash, power-shell and more are supported)

spt play --name "Your Playlist" --playlist --random # Plays a random song from "Your Playlist"
spt play --name "A cool song" --track # Plays 'A cool song'

spt playback --like --shuffle # Likes the current song and toggles shuffle mode
spt playback --toggle # Plays/pauses the current playback

spt list --liked --limit 50 # See your liked songs (50 is the max limit)

# Looks for 'An even cooler song' and gives you the '{name} from {album}' of up to 30 matches
spt search "An even cooler song" --tracks --format "%t from %b" --limit 30

Configuration

A configuration file is located at ${HOME}/.config/spotify-tui/config.yml, for snap ${HOME}/snap/spt/current/.config/spotify-tui/config.yml (not to be confused with client.yml which handles spotify authentication)

The following is a sample config.yml file:

# Sample config file

# The theme colours can be an rgb string of the form "255, 255, 255" or a string that references the colours from your terminal theme: Reset, Black, Red, Green, Yellow, Blue, Magenta, Cyan, Gray, DarkGray, LightRed, LightGreen, LightYellow, LightBlue, LightMagenta, LightCyan, White.
theme:
  active: Cyan # current playing song in list
  banner: LightCyan # the "spotify-tui" banner on launch
  error_border: Red # error dialog border
  error_text: LightRed # error message text (e.g. "Spotify API reported error 404")
  hint: Yellow # hint text in errors
  hovered: Magenta # hovered pane border
  inactive: Gray # borders of inactive panes
  playbar_background: Black # background of progress bar
  playbar_progress: LightCyan # filled-in part of the progress bar
  playbar_progress_text: Cyan # song length and time played/left indicator in the progress bar
  playbar_text: White # artist name in player pane
  selected: LightCyan # a) selected pane border, b) hovered item in list, & c) track title in player
  text: "255, 255, 255" # text in panes
  header: White # header text in panes (e.g. 'Title', 'Artist', etc.)

behavior:
  seek_milliseconds: 5000
  volume_increment: 10
  # The lower the number the higher the "frames per second". You can decrease this number so that the audio visualisation is smoother but this can be expensive!
  tick_rate_milliseconds: 250
  # Enable text emphasis (typically italic/bold text styling). Disabling this might be important if the terminal config is otherwise restricted and rendering text escapes interferes with the UI.
  enable_text_emphasis: true
  # Controls whether to show a loading indicator in the top right of the UI whenever communicating with Spotify API
  show_loading_indicator: true
  # Disables the responsive layout that makes the search bar smaller on bigger
  # screens and enforces a wide search bar
  enforce_wide_search_bar: false
  # Determines the text icon to display next to "liked" Spotify items, such as
  # liked songs and albums, or followed artists. Can be any length string.
  # These icons require a patched nerd font.
  liked_icon: β™₯
  shuffle_icon: πŸ”€
  repeat_track_icon: πŸ”‚
  repeat_context_icon: πŸ”
  playing_icon: β–Ά
  paused_icon: ⏸
  # Sets the window title to "spt - Spotify TUI" via ANSI escape code.
  set_window_title: true

keybindings:
  # Key stroke can be used if it only uses two keys:
  # ctrl-q works,
  # ctrl-alt-q doesn't.
  back: "ctrl-q"

  jump_to_album: "a"

  # Shift modifiers use a capital letter (also applies with other modifier keys
  # like ctrl-A)
  jump_to_artist_album: "A"

  manage_devices: "d"
  decrease_volume: "-"
  increase_volume: "+"
  toggle_playback: " "
  seek_backwards: "<"
  seek_forwards: ">"
  next_track: "n"
  previous_track: "p"
  copy_song_url: "c"
  copy_album_url: "C"
  help: "?"
  shuffle: "ctrl-s"
  repeat: "r"
  search: "/"
  audio_analysis: "v"
  jump_to_context: "o"
  basic_view: "B"
  add_item_to_queue: "z"

Limitations

This app uses the Web API from Spotify, which doesn't handle streaming itself. So you'll need either an official Spotify client open or a lighter weight alternative such as spotifyd.

If you want to play tracks, Spotify requires that you have a Premium account.

Using with spotifyd

Follow the spotifyd documentation to get set up.

After that there is not much to it.

  1. Start running the spotifyd daemon.
  2. Start up spt
  3. Press d to go to the device selection menu and the spotifyd "device" should be there - if not check these docs

Libraries used

Development

  1. Install OpenSSL
  2. Install Rust
  3. Install xorg-dev (required for clipboard support)
  4. Clone or fork this repo and cd to it
  5. And then cargo run

Windows Subsystem for Linux

You might get a linking error. If so, you'll probably need to install additional dependencies required by the clipboard package

sudo apt-get install -y -qq pkg-config libssl-dev libxcb1-dev libxcb-render0-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev

Contributors

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):


Alexander Keliris

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Mickael Marques

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Grzegorz Koperwas

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Austin Gassert

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Calen Robinette

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Andrew Chin

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Sam Naser

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Timon

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D-Nice

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Peter K. Moss

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Geoff Shannon

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Zachary Mayhew

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Marcel Schramm

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Fangyi Zhou

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Max

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Sven van der Vlist

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Nils Rauch

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Nick Stockton

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Stuart Hinson

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Sam Calvert

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Kimberley Cook

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Audrey Baxter

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Peter Maatman

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Matthew Cobbing

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This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!

Roadmap

The goal is to eventually implement almost every Spotify feature.

High-level requirements yet to be implemented

  • Add songs to a playlist
  • Be able to scroll through result pages in every view

This table shows all that is possible with the Spotify API, what is implemented already, and whether that is essential.

API method Implemented yet? Explanation Essential?
track No returns a single track given the track's ID, URI or URL No
tracks No returns a list of tracks given a list of track IDs, URIs, or URLs No
artist No returns a single artist given the artist's ID, URI or URL Yes
artists No returns a list of artists given the artist IDs, URIs, or URLs No
artist_albums Yes Get Spotify catalog information about an artist's albums Yes
artist_top_tracks Yes Get Spotify catalog information about an artist's top 10 tracks by country. Yes
artist_related_artists Yes Get Spotify catalog information about artists similar to an identified artist. Similarity is based on analysis of the Spotify community's listening history. Yes
album Yes returns a single album given the album's ID, URIs or URL Yes
albums No returns a list of albums given the album IDs, URIs, or URLs No
search_album Yes Search album based on query Yes
search_artist Yes Search artist based on query Yes
search_track Yes Search track based on query Yes
search_playlist Yes Search playlist based on query Yes
album_track Yes Get Spotify catalog information about an album's tracks Yes
user No Gets basic profile information about a Spotify User No
playlist Yes Get full details about Spotify playlist Yes
current_user_playlists Yes Get current user playlists without required getting his profile Yes
user_playlists No Gets playlists of a user No
user_playlist No Gets playlist of a user No
user_playlist_tracks Yes Get full details of the tracks of a playlist owned by a user Yes
user_playlist_create No Creates a playlist for a user Yes
user_playlist_change_detail No Changes a playlist's name and/or public/private state Yes
user_playlist_unfollow Yes Unfollows (deletes) a playlist for a user Yes
user_playlist_add_track No Adds tracks to a playlist Yes
user_playlist_replace_track No Replace all tracks in a playlist No
user_playlist_recorder_tracks No Reorder tracks in a playlist No
user_playlist_remove_all_occurrences_of_track No Removes all occurrences of the given tracks from the given playlist No
user_playlist_remove_specific_occurrenes_of_track No Removes all occurrences of the given tracks from the given playlist No
user_playlist_follow_playlist Yes Add the current authenticated user as a follower of a playlist. Yes
user_playlist_check_follow No Check to see if the given users are following the given playlist Yes
me No Get detailed profile information about the current user. Yes
current_user No Alias for me Yes
current_user_playing_track Yes Get information about the current users currently playing track. Yes
current_user_saved_albums Yes Gets a list of the albums saved in the current authorized user's "Your Music" library Yes
current_user_saved_tracks Yes Gets the user's saved tracks or "Liked Songs" Yes
current_user_followed_artists Yes Gets a list of the artists followed by the current authorized user Yes
current_user_saved_tracks_delete Yes Remove one or more tracks from the current user's "Your Music" library. Yes
current_user_saved_tracks_contain No Check if one or more tracks is already saved in the current Spotify user’s β€œYour Music” library. Yes
current_user_saved_tracks_add Yes Save one or more tracks to the current user's "Your Music" library. Yes
current_user_top_artists No Get the current user's top artists Yes
current_user_top_tracks No Get the current user's top tracks Yes
current_user_recently_played Yes Get the current user's recently played tracks Yes
current_user_saved_albums_add Yes Add one or more albums to the current user's "Your Music" library. Yes
current_user_saved_albums_delete Yes Remove one or more albums from the current user's "Your Music" library. Yes
user_follow_artists Yes Follow one or more artists Yes
user_unfollow_artists Yes Unfollow one or more artists Yes
user_follow_users No Follow one or more users No
user_unfollow_users No Unfollow one or more users No
featured_playlists No Get a list of Spotify featured playlists Yes
new_releases No Get a list of new album releases featured in Spotify Yes
categories No Get a list of categories used to tag items in Spotify Yes
recommendations Yes Get Recommendations Based on Seeds Yes
audio_features No Get audio features for a track No
audios_features No Get Audio Features for Several Tracks No
audio_analysis Yes Get Audio Analysis for a Track Yes
device Yes Get a User’s Available Devices Yes
current_playback Yes Get Information About The User’s Current Playback Yes
current_playing No Get the User’s Currently Playing Track No
transfer_playback Yes Transfer a User’s Playback Yes
start_playback Yes Start/Resume a User’s Playback Yes
pause_playback Yes Pause a User’s Playback Yes
next_track Yes Skip User’s Playback To Next Track Yes
previous_track Yes Skip User’s Playback To Previous Track Yes
seek_track Yes Seek To Position In Currently Playing Track Yes
repeat Yes Set Repeat Mode On User’s Playback Yes
volume Yes Set Volume For User’s Playback Yes
shuffle Yes Toggle Shuffle For User’s Playback Yes