Tuesday, December 26, 2023

Re: NEW: audio/spotify-qt

On Wed, Dec 27, 2023 at 01:41:04AM +0000, Klemens Nanni wrote:
> Qt6, search, playlists, album covers, synced lyrics, play/pause/seek,
> sharing links to artists/albums/songs, etc. is all working great for me.
>
> You can also see (librespot) logs and go into developer mode with more
> options and the ability to test arbitrary API requests -- in the GUI.
>
> Having librespot configured (instead of the unported spotifyd), there are
> plaintext credentials in the process list:
> 57711 /usr/local/bin/librespot --bitrate 320 --username [redacted] --password [redacted] --name spotify-qt (librespot) --initial-volume 100 --cache /home/kn/.cache/kraxarn/spotify-qt/librespot --autoplay

Using spotifyd avoid this.

> Alternatives are setting up spotifyd (WIP) or perhaps using the enabled
> GNOME/KDE/whatever keychain support (I don't have that under Xfce, apparently):
> [02:25:54] [wrn] Failed to get password: The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files
> [02:26:16] [wrn] Failed to set password: The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files

spotifyd works great and spotify-qt's GUI configuration is straight
forward enough to set this up without having to explain anything in the
package, imho, so new port attached that now RUN_DEPENDS on audio/spotifyd
instead of audio/librespot.

Feedback? OK?
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Information for inst:spotify-qt-3.10

Comment:
lightweight Spotify client using Qt

Description:
An unofficial Spotify client using Qt as a simpler, lighter alternative to the
official client.

Maintainer: Klemens Nanni <kn@openbsd.org>

WWW: https://github.com/kraxarn/spotify-qt

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