Ncspot Guide - hrkfdn/ncspot GitHub Wiki

ncspot is a ncurses Spotify client written in Rust using librespot. It is heavily inspired in ncurses MPD clients, such as ncmpc. The motivation for ncspot was to provide a simple and friendly alternative with the same features as the official client and that supported platforms that currently do not have a Spotify client, such as BSD distributions.

ncspot offers features that are legally incompatible with the Spotify free tier. Check account plans and user guidelines. You should have an existing premium Spotify subscription to use ncspot.

ps_mem was used to analyze the performance when playing back the same song on Linux:

ncspot is available on the Homebrew package manager.

brew install ncspot

ncspot is available on the Scoop package manager.

scoop install ncspot

Install it with your distributions' package manager.

The key combinations listed below are configured by default. In addition, if you compiled ncspot with [MPRIS] support, you may be able to use media keys to control playback.

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