An open source, cross-platform music client
utilizing selected music provider API and YouTube, Piped.video or JioSaavn as an audio source Btw it's not just another Electron app 😉

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--- ![Spotube Desktop](assets/spotube-screenshot.png) ![Spotube Mobile](assets/mobile-screenshots/combined.png)

## 🌃 Features - 🚫 No ads, thanks to the use of public & free music metadata providers and YT Music APIs¹ - ⬇️ Freely downloadable tracks - 🖥️ 📱 Cross-platform support - 🪶 Small size & less data usage - 🕵️ Anonymous/guest login - 🕒 Time synced lyrics - ✋ No telemetry, diagnostics or user data collection - 🚀 Native performance - 📖 Open source/libre software - 🔉 Playback control is done locally, not on the server **¹** It is still **recommended** to support creators by engaging with their YouTube channels/tracks in music platforms (or preferably by buying their merch/concert tickets/physical media). ### ❌ Unsupported features - 🗣️ **Shows & Podcasts:** Shows and Podcasts will **never be supported** because the audio tracks are _only_ available on music providers and accessing them would require premium. - 🎧 **Listen Along:** [Coming soon!](https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/issues/8) ## 📜 ⬇️ Installation guide New versions usually release every 3-4 months.
This handy table lists all the methods you can use to install Spotube:

Platform	Package/Installation Method
Windows
MacOS
Android
iOS	*iPA file only. Requires sideloading with AltStore or similar tools.
Flatpak	`flatpak install com.github.KRTirtho.Spotube`
AppImage	AppImage's lacking stability led to it's temporary removal. More information at https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/issues/1082
Debian/Ubuntu	Then run: `sudo apt install ./Spotube-linux-x86_64.deb`
Arch/Manjaro	With pamac: `sudo pamac install spotube-bin` With yay: `yay -Sy spotube-bin`
Fedora/OpenSuse	For Fedora: `sudo dnf install ./Spotube-linux-x86_64.rpm` For OpenSuse: `sudo zypper in ./Spotube-linux-x86_64.rpm`
Linux (tarball)
Macos - Homebrew	brew tap krtirtho/apps brew install --cask spotube
Windows - Chocolatey	`choco install spotube`
Windows - Scoop	`scoop bucket add extras` `scoop install spotube`
Windows - WinGet	`winget install --id KRTirtho.Spotube`

### 🔄 Nightly Builds Grab the latest nightly builds of Spotube [from the GitHub Releases](https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/releases/tag/nightly). ## 🕳️ Building from source

You can compile Spotube's source code by [following these instructions](CONTRIBUTION.md#your-first-code-contribution). ## 👥 The Spotube team - [Kingkor Roy Tirtho](https://github.com/KRTirtho) - The Founder, Maintainer and Lead Developer - [RaptaG](https://github.com/RaptaG) - The GitHub Moderator and Community Manager - [Owen Connor](https://github.com/owencz1998) - The Cool Discord Moderator - [Meenbeese](https://github.com/meenbeese) - The Android Developer - [Piotr Rogowski](https://github.com/karniv00l) - The MacOS Developer - [Rusty Apple](https://github.com/RustyApple) - The Mysterious Unknown Guy ## 💼 License Spotube is open source and licensed under the [BSD-4-Clause](/LICENSE) License. If you are concerned, you can [read the reason of choosing this license](https://dev.to/krtirtho/choosing-open-source-license-wisely-1m3p).

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### Services 1. [Flutter](https://flutter.dev) - Flutter transforms the app development process. Build, test, and deploy beautiful mobile, web, desktop, and embedded apps from a single codebase 1. [MPV](https://mpv.io) - mpv is a free (as in freedom) media player for the command line. It supports a wide variety of media file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types. 1. [Piped](https://piped-docs.kavin.rocks/) - Piped is a privacy friendly alternative YouTube frontend, which is efficient and scalable by design. 1. [Invidious](https://invidious.io/) - Invidious is an open source alternative front-end to YouTube. 1. [YouTube](https://youtube.com/) - YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005 1. [yt-dlp](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp) - A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader 1. [NewPipeExtractor](https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor) - NewPipe's core library for extracting data from streaming sites 1. [JioSaavn](https://www.jiosaavn.com) - JioSaavn is an Indian online music streaming service and a digital distributor of Bollywood, English and other regional Indian music across the world. Since it was founded in 2007 as Saavn, the company has acquired rights to over 5 crore (50 million) music tracks in 15 languages 1. [SongLink](https://song.link) - SongLink is a free smart link service that helps you share music with your audience. It's a one-stop-shop for creating smart links for music, podcasts, and other audio content 1. [LRCLib](https://lrclib.net/) - A public synced lyric API 1. [Linux](https://www.linux.org) - Linux is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution 1. [AUR](https://aur.archlinux.org) - AUR stands for Arch User Repository. It is a community-driven repository for Arch-based Linux distributions users 1. [Flatpak](https://flatpak.org) - Flatpak is a utility for software deployment and package management for Linux 1. [SponsorBlock](https://sponsor.ajay.app) - SponsorBlock is an open-source crowdsourced browser extension and open API for skipping sponsor segments in YouTube videos. 1. [Inno Setup](https://jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php) - Inno Setup is a free installer for Windows programs by Jordan Russell and Martijn Laan 1. [F-Droid](https://f-droid.org) - F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device 1. [LastFM](https://last.fm) - Last.fm is a music streaming and discovery platform that helps users discover and share new music. It tracks users' music listening habits across many devices and platforms. ### Dependencies 1. [app_links](https://github.com/llfbandit/app_links) - Android App Links, Deep Links, iOs Universal Links and Custom URL schemes handler for Flutter (desktop included). 1. [args](https://pub.dev/packages/args) - Library for defining parsers for parsing raw command-line arguments into a set of options and values using GNU and POSIX style options. 1. [async](https://pub.dev/packages/async) - Utility functions and classes related to the 'dart:async' library. 1. [audio_service](https://pub.dev/packages/audio_service) - Flutter plugin to play audio in the background while the screen is off. 1. [audio_service_mpris](https://github.com/bdrazhzhov/audio-service-mpris) - audio_service platform interface supporting Media Player Remote Interfacing Specification. 1. [audio_session](https://github.com/ryanheise/audio_session) - Sets the iOS audio session category and Android audio attributes for your app, and manages your app's audio focus, mixing and ducking behaviour. 1. [auto_route](https://github.com/Milad-Akarie/auto_route_library) - AutoRoute is a declarative routing solution, where everything needed for navigation is automatically generated for you. 1. [auto_size_text](https://github.com/leisim/auto_size_text) - Flutter widget that automatically resizes text to fit perfectly within its bounds. 1. [bonsoir](https://bonsoir.skyost.eu) - A Zeroconf library that allows you to discover network services and to broadcast your own. Based on Apple Bonjour and Android NSD. 1. [cached_network_image](https://github.com/Baseflow/flutter_cached_network_image) - Flutter library to load and cache network images. Can also be used with placeholder and error widgets. 1. 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[freezed_annotation](https://pub.dev/packages/freezed_annotation) - Annotations for the freezed code-generator. This package does nothing without freezed too. 1. [fuzzywuzzy](https://github.com/sphericalkat/dart-fuzzywuzzy) - An implementation of the popular fuzzywuzzy package in Dart, to suit all your fuzzy string matching/searching needs! 1. [gap](https://github.com/letsar/gap) - Flutter widgets for easily adding gaps inside Flex widgets such as Columns and Rows or scrolling views. 1. [google_fonts](https://pub.dev/packages/google_fonts) - A Flutter package to use fonts from fonts.google.com. Supports HTTP fetching, caching, and asset bundling. 1. [home_widget](https://pub.dev/packages/home_widget) - A plugin to provide a common interface for creating HomeScreen Widgets for Android and iOS. 1. [hooks_riverpod](https://riverpod.dev) - A reactive caching and data-binding framework. Riverpod makes working with asynchronous code a breeze. 1. [html](https://pub.dev/packages/html) - APIs for parsing and manipulating HTML content outside the browser. 1. [html_unescape](https://github.com/filiph/html_unescape) - A small library for un-escaping HTML. Supports all Named Character References, Decimal Character References and Hexadecimal Character References. 1. [http](https://pub.dev/packages/http) - A composable, multi-platform, Future-based API for HTTP requests. 1. [image_picker](https://pub.dev/packages/image_picker) - Flutter plugin for selecting images from the Android and iOS image library, and taking new pictures with the camera. 1. [intl](https://pub.dev/packages/intl) - Contains code to deal with internationalized/localized messages, date and number formatting and parsing, bi-directional text, and other internationalization issues. 1. [invidious](https://pub.dev/packages/invidious) - Invidious API client for Dart and Flutter. 1. [jiosaavn](https://github.com/KRTirtho/jiosaavn) - Unofficial API client for jiosaavn.com 1. [json_annotation](https://pub.dev/packages/json_annotation) - Classes and helper functions that support JSON code generation via the `json_serializable` package. 1. [local_notifier](https://github.com/leanflutter/local_notifier) - This plugin allows Flutter desktop apps to displaying local notifications. 1. [logger](https://pub.dev/packages/logger) - Small, easy to use and extensible logger which prints beautiful logs. 1. [logging](https://pub.dev/packages/logging) - Provides APIs for debugging and error logging, similar to loggers in other languages, such as the Closure JS Logger and java.util.logging.Logger. 1. [lrc](https://pub.dev/packages/lrc) - A Dart-only package that creates, parses, and handles LRC, which is a format that stores song lyrics. 1. [media_kit](https://github.com/media-kit/media-kit) - A cross-platform video player & audio player for Flutter & Dart. Performant, stable, feature-proof & modular. 1. [media_kit_libs_audio](https://github.com/media-kit/media-kit.git) - package:media_kit audio (only) playback native libraries for all platforms. 1. [metadata_god](https://pub.dev/packages/metadata_god) - Plugin for retrieving and writing audio tags/metadata from audio files 1. [mime](https://pub.dev/packages/mime) - Utilities for handling media (MIME) types, including determining a type from a file extension and file contents. 1. [open_file](https://pub.dev/packages/open_file) - A plug-in that can call native APP to open files with string result in flutter, support iOS(UTI) / android(intent) / PC(ffi) / web(dart:html) 1. [package_info_plus](https://github.com/fluttercommunity/plus_plugins) - Flutter plugin for querying information about the application package, such as CFBundleVersion on iOS or versionCode on Android. 1. [palette_generator](https://pub.dev/packages/palette_generator) - Flutter package for generating palette colors from a source image. 1. [path](https://pub.dev/packages/path) - A string-based path manipulation library. All of the path operations you know and love, with solid support for Windows, POSIX (Linux and Mac OS X), and the web. 1. [path_provider](https://pub.dev/packages/path_provider) - Flutter plugin for getting commonly used locations on host platform file systems, such as the temp and app data directories. 1. [permission_handler](https://pub.dev/packages/permission_handler) - Permission plugin for Flutter. This plugin provides a cross-platform (iOS, Android) API to request and check permissions. 1. [piped_client](https://github.com/KRTirtho/piped_client) - API Client for piped.video 1. [riverpod](https://riverpod.dev) - A reactive caching and data-binding framework. Riverpod makes working with asynchronous code a breeze. 1. [scroll_to_index](https://github.com/quire-io/scroll-to-index) - Scroll to a specific child of any scrollable widget in Flutter 1. [shadcn_flutter](https://github.com/sunarya-thito/shadcn_flutter) - Beautifully designed components from Shadcn/UI is now available for Flutter 1. [shared_preferences](https://pub.dev/packages/shared_preferences) - Flutter plugin for reading and writing simple key-value pairs. Wraps NSUserDefaults on iOS and SharedPreferences on Android. 1. [shelf](https://pub.dev/packages/shelf) - A model for web server middleware that encourages composition and easy reuse. 1. [shelf_router](https://pub.dev/packages/shelf_router) - A convenient request router for the shelf web-framework, with support for URL-parameters, nested routers and routers generated from source annotations. 1. [shelf_web_socket](https://pub.dev/packages/shelf_web_socket) - A shelf handler that wires up a listener for every connection. 1. [simple_icons](https://teavelopment.com/) - The Simple Icon pack available as Flutter Icons. Provides over 1500 Free SVG icons for popular brands. 1. [skeletonizer](https://github.com/Milad-Akarie/skeletonizer) - Converts already built widgets into skeleton loaders with no extra effort. 1. [sliding_up_panel](https://github.com/akshathjain/sliding_up_panel) - A draggable Flutter widget that makes implementing a SlidingUpPanel much easier! 1. [sliver_tools](https://github.com/Kavantix) - A set of useful sliver tools that are missing from the flutter framework 1. [smtc_windows](https://pub.dev/packages/smtc_windows) - Windows `SystemMediaTransportControls` implementation for Flutter giving access to Windows OS Media Control applet. 1. [sqlite3](https://github.com/simolus3/sqlite3.dart/tree/main/sqlite3) - Provides lightweight yet convenient bindings to SQLite by using dart:ffi 1. [sqlite3_flutter_libs](https://github.com/simolus3/sqlite3.dart/tree/main/sqlite3_flutter_libs) - Flutter plugin to include native sqlite3 libraries with your app 1. [stroke_text](https://github.com/MohamedAbd0/stroke_text) - A Simple Flutter plugin for applying stroke (border) style to a text widget 1. [system_theme](https://github.com/bdlukaa/system_theme/tree/master/system_theme) - A plugin to get the current system theme info. Supports Android, Web, Windows, Linux and macOS 1. [test](https://pub.dev/packages/test) - A full featured library for writing and running Dart tests across platforms. 1. [timezone](https://pub.dev/packages/timezone) - Time zone database and time zone aware DateTime. 1. [titlebar_buttons](https://github.com/gtk-flutter/titlebar_buttons) - A package which provides most of the titlebar buttons from windows, linux and macos. 1. [tray_manager](https://github.com/leanflutter/tray_manager) - This plugin allows Flutter desktop apps to defines system tray. 1. [url_launcher](https://pub.dev/packages/url_launcher) - Flutter plugin for launching a URL. Supports web, phone, SMS, and email schemes. 1. [uuid](https://pub.dev/packages/uuid) - RFC4122 (v1, v4, v5, v6, v7, v8) UUID Generator and Parser for Dart 1. [version](https://github.com/dartninja/version) - Provides a simple class for parsing and comparing semantic versions as defined by http://semver.org/ 1. [very_good_infinite_list](https://github.com/VeryGoodOpenSource/very_good_infinite_list) - A library for easily displaying paginated data, created by Very Good Ventures. Great for activity feeds, news feeds, and more. 1. [visibility_detector](https://pub.dev/packages/visibility_detector) - A widget that detects the visibility of its child and notifies a callback. 1. [web_socket_channel](https://pub.dev/packages/web_socket_channel) - StreamChannel wrappers for WebSockets. Provides a cross-platform WebSocketChannel API, a cross-platform implementation of that API that communicates over an underlying StreamChannel. 1. [wikipedia_api](https://github.com/KRTirtho/wikipedia_api) - Wikipedia API for dart and flutter 1. [win32_registry](https://pub.dev/packages/win32_registry) - A package that provides a friendly Dart API for accessing the Windows Registry. 1. [window_manager](https://github.com/leanflutter/window_manager) - This plugin allows Flutter desktop apps to resizing and repositioning the window. 1. [youtube_explode_dart](https://github.com/Hexer10/youtube_explode_dart) - A port in dart of the youtube explode library. Supports several API functions without the need of Youtube API Key. 1. [http_parser](https://pub.dev/packages/http_parser) - A platform-independent package for parsing and serializing HTTP formats. 1. [collection](https://pub.dev/packages/collection) - Collections and utilities functions and classes related to collections. 1. [otp_util](https://github.com/dushiling) - otp_util is a dart package to generate and verify one-time passwords,it It provides two methods TOPT and HOTP.They are Time-based OTPs and Counter-based OTPs. 1. [dio_http2_adapter](https://github.com/cfug/dio) - An adapter that combines HTTP/2 and dio. Supports reusing connections, header compression, etc. 1. [build_runner](https://pub.dev/packages/build_runner) - A build system for Dart code generation and modular compilation. 1. [envied_generator](https://github.com/petercinibulk/envied) - Generator for the Envied package. See https://pub.dev/packages/envied. 1. [flutter_gen_runner](https://github.com/FlutterGen/flutter_gen) - The Flutter code generator for your assets, fonts, colors, … — Get rid of all String-based APIs. 1. [flutter_launcher_icons](https://github.com/fluttercommunity/flutter_launcher_icons) - A package which simplifies the task of updating your Flutter app's launcher icon. 1. 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