ncurses Spotify client written in Rust using librespot. It is heavily inspired by ncurses MPD clients, such as ncmpc. My motivation was to provide a simple and resource friendly alternative to the official client as well as to support platforms that currently don't have a Spotify client, such as the *BSDs.

NOTE: ncspot is still in a very early development stage. Things will break and change. The feature set is still very limited.

Usage

Set your login credentials (see configuration)
Build using cargo build --release
Navigate through the screens using the F-keys:
- F1: Debug log
- F2: Queue
- F3: Search
Tracks can be played using Return and queued using Space

Requirements

Rust
libpulse-dev (or portaudio-dev, if you want to use the PortAudio backend)

Configuration

For now, a configuration file containing Spotify login data needs to be created manually, until a login-screen is implemented (https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot/issues/1).

The file needs to look like this:

username = "spotify_user"
password = "spotify_password"

Please save it to ~/.config/ncspot.

Audio backends

By default ncspot is built using the PulseAudio backend. To make it use the PortAudio backend (e.g. for macOS, *BSD, ..), you need to recompile ncspot with the portaudio_backend feature:

cargo run --no-default-features --features portaudio_backend