To be honest, I used it for a bit, and then decided that I didn’t really like text-mode interfaces all that much. If you’ve set everything up correctly you should see the text interface pop up like so:

You are now ready to authenticate with Spotify!

Click `Create a Client ID` and create an appĥ. I’ve added it to Homebrew already, so if you need to get that set up first, go ahead. This is an always-on service (hence the d in its name, for daemon) that will wait in the background and play music requested by whatever Spotify client we choose in this case, spotify-tui.įirst, get spotifyd installed. The wood chipper that is modern society can’t operate without sacrificing a few limbs! Installing and configuring spotifyd You’ll also need a Spotify Premium account for any of this to work. I assume basic familiarity with managing your machine via Terminal.

In this blog post, I’ll show you how to set up these on your macOS machine. After switching software, I have an extra half-gig of memory that isn’t being wasted running yet another instance of Chromium. I decided to look for non-Electron alternative clients for all of those. Lately I’ve gotten especially annoyed at all of the Electron-based junk running on my machine, since I have to work from home, which means needing to use Docker to run or test out various Linux things, which is another 2 gigs of my laptop’s precious memory eaten away. We can only speculate why all these large companies with enormous engineering resources cannot use the money that I pay them for their services to make software that doesn’t suck, but that’s for another blog post. I’m writing this blog post on a maxed-out 2016 13” MacBook Pro, and it can barely keep up with all these Electron apps I need to keep running. Then it’s likely that Electron is to blame. the typing shortcuts you’re used to in macOS Just Don’t Work.scrolling, or playing a GIF or whatever in those apps, is incredibly laggy.your computer chugs to a halt once more than two of are open on the same machine.Free yourself from the Spotify desktop client with spotifyd Įlectron apps are a plague.

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