What does HackerNews think of ncspot?

Have tried this several times but I find it drops off the network as a remote play device.

If you have a PC with the Spotify app running, that appears as a remote play device to other clients.

Otherwise I found ncspot to be more reliable than spotifyd: https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot/

I like Spotify-TUI, but I love ncspot. Give it a try, if you haven't. It's excellent: https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot

Hi everyone, this is my second "Show HN" submission posted in Hacker News. The first one was https://github.com/aome510/hackernews-TUI. I received a lot of good feedbacks and suggestions from the community back then. For the second one, I also look forward to hearing the community's opinions.

A bit background on the project: I started `hackernews-tui` and after that `spotify-player` (both are terminal application) because I want to learn Rust and build applications with Rust which I'm able to use daily.

`spotify-player` is a terminal application that can be used as either a remote player to control another Spotify client or a local player with an integrated Spotify client. So if you already know spotify-tui[1] or ncspot[2], `spotify-player` is kinda a simplified combination of both =).

I have made two demo videos for the application, one in youtube (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Jbfe9GLNWbA) and the another in asciicast (https://asciinema.org/a/446913).

Hope you guys give it a try. Any feedbacks are highly appreciated!

[1]: https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui

[2]: https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot

My personal favorite is musikcube: https://musikcube.com/

The mouse support is excellent, assuming your terminal emulator supports the features it needs. (Alacritty does, but iTerm2 doesn't seem to send right clicks to the program.) Pretty much everything can be clicked and right-clicked, you can even scroll (although I find it scrolls too fast to be useful).

I listen to most of my music through musikcube and ncspot https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot these days.

Hi, the author here. Psst is definitely in alpha, and the CLI is indeed just an example (it's what I was using to test the core mechanisms). I'm sorry the accessibility is so bad now, but Druid, the GUI library, takes it very seriously -- which is not very common in custom GUI frameworks. So, fingers crossed, it should get better soon.

Re. command-line Spotify clients, there is ncspot[1] and spotify-tui[2], and if you use Linux, Spot[3] looks like a nice GTK experience.

[1] https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot

[2] https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui

[3] https://github.com/xou816/spot

My settings are:

GTK2 apps do not support HiDPI correctly. oomox (and similar) can be used to generate a scaled GTK2 theme, but it won't solve all your problems.

GTK3 supports HiDPI well. If you use Gnome, Xfce and others, you can configure this via the preferences UI. Otherwise, add this to your .profile file:

    export GDK_SCALE=2
    export GDK_DPI_SCALE=0.5

Many Java apps can be scaled by adding an argument...

    java -Dsun.java2d.uiScale=2

For Qt you can add this to your .profile file:

    export QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=0
    export QT_SCALE_FACTOR=2

    # For theming, requires qt5ct
    export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct

For Spotify... I use ncspot for listening, and the web version to manage my playlists (although you can also management with ncspot). ncspot is a keyboard friendly, lightweight terminal client.

    https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot

I use FreeOffice as office suite, you can configure HiDPI through the menus and works perfectly. Same with Steam.