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Cross-platform ncurses Spotify client written in Rust, inspired by ncmpc and the likes.

15 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 2 stories, 13 comments · first 2019-12-24 · latest 2026-09-01

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  1. …with windows was less convenient to navigate, and some of them try to do too much. I wound up using https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot because it specifically does not attempt to be a character mode GUI. Almost like a ViMusic.
    comment by kermatt · 2026-09-01 · in Fastpotify
  2. Also see ncspot, which is something similar with batteries-included: https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot
    comment by talldayo · 2024-06-30 · in Spotify TUI: Spotify for the Terminal
  3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28203654#28207594 > https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui https://github.com/xou816/spot https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28203654&p=2#28206619 > macOs ……
    comment by password4321 · 2023-03-09 · in Show HN: Lofi, a Tiny Spotify Player
  4. …a remote play device to other clients. Otherwise I found ncspot to be more reliable than spotifyd: https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot/
    comment by suprjami · 2022-12-19 · in Spotifyd
  5. https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot#on-windows
    comment by asdfqwertzxcv · 2022-05-27 · in Spotify-TUI: Spotify for the terminal written in Rust
  6. I like Spotify-TUI, but I love ncspot. Give it a try, if you haven't. It's excellent: https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot
    comment by smoldesu · 2022-05-27 · in Spotify-TUI: Spotify for the terminal written in Rust
  7. …it a try. Any feedbacks are highly appreciated! [1]: https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui [2]: https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot
    comment by aome510 · 2021-11-04 · in Show HN: spotify-player, a command driven music player on the terminal
  8. …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.
    comment by skyfaller · 2021-08-30 · in Writing Programs with Ncurses
  9. …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
    comment by jpochyla · 2021-08-17 · in Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust
  10. And for those wanting a ncurse client, there is ncspot [0] which is quite stable and complete. [0] https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot
    comment by boudin · 2021-08-17 · in Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust
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    Ncspot: Ncurses Spotify client written in Rust
    story by giansegato · 2021-02-11 · 0 comments
  12. …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…
    comment by 29athrowaway · 2021-01-30 · in A few HiDPI tricks for Linux
  13. …party low-resource clients / integrations for spotify; despotify, mopidy, recently this thing: https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot Unfortunately iirc the neat dynamically generated playlist stuff isn't supported because it's not exposed…
    comment by erinaceousjones · 2020-05-13 · in Sciter – Multiplatform HTML/CSS UI Engine for Desktop and Mobile Applications
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    Ncspot – cross-platform ncurses spotify client written in rust
    story by d99kris · 2020-02-17 · 0 comments
  15. Also https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot and https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot
    comment by snek · 2019-12-24 · in Open-Source Spotify App