Spotifar - listening to your Spotify collection

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Spotifar - listening to your Spotify collection

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Discussing plugin Spotifar – a front-end client for accessing and listening to your music collection on Spotify (R) service.

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Why you might like the plugin
  • everything follows Far’s standard panel behavior:
    • artists, albums, and playlists are implemented as regular directories on the panels
    • Ctrl+1…9 are redefined for panel view modes; Ctrl+F1…F12 for sorting
    • filtering with Ctrl+I and search with Alt+F7
  • added support for global hotkeys for core needs: play/pause, seek, volume, etc.
  • added WinToastLib to show Windows pop-ups for track changes
  • added several custom views:
    • new releases (last 4 weeks) from artists you follow
    • recently added to your collection: tracks/albums/playlists
    • recently played tracks/albums/playlists
    • your top artists and tracks (Spotify’s algorithm)
  • added lyrics in QuickView for tracks
Why you might NOT like the plugin
  • the plugin is a facade: it gives access to your music, but it can’t play it by itself—you still need a registered Spotify device: the official desktop client, a client on your TV, or something else
  • from the start, the goal was to avoid dependencies entirely, so the plugin integrates the open-source Librespot library, which can register as a proper device; in practice, there are several serious shortcomings that significantly reduce usability; you can enable the library in the settings window without issues
  • you need a Spotify account and subscription
  • Spotify’s internal algorithms (i.e., recommendations) are closed to the public API, so there’s no access to the auto-generated “for you” playlists; however, such playlists will appear in the “recently played” list, and you can even save them locally under any name and launch them later; you just won’t be able to view their contents
Backlog
  • add playlist management: adding and removing tracks; currently you can browse and play them; tracks can only be added to your collection (liked)
  • add podcast support (currently not supported at all)
  • add artist recommendations based on who you listen to
  • Download music for offline use via your favorite panels
  • add support for artist Tours
  • add a dialog to filter artists by genre
  • console commands

Awaiting your comments and ideas. Reply here or directly on GitHub.
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Spotifar - listening to your Spotify collection

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great!
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