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Hello everyone,

As I mentioned earlier on this thread, I have been working on an alternative Spotify client based on Qt (4.6) and the libopenspotify lib. Now, as the PR1.2 has been released with official Qt support, I have decided to release an initial alpha version of the client (called QSpot). The client is now available from the extras-devel repo (standard disclaimers apply), as well as from the project garage page (qspot.garage.maemo.org). There are still quite a few issues with the current release, which is to be expected from such an early version (such as e.g., problem with initiating playback from time to time on slower connections in particular, cpu usage etc.). Some of these issues are also related to the use of libopenspotify. Libopenspotify is however api-compatible with the official Spotify library, which at some point potentially could prove useful. That was one of the reason why I selected it instead of despotify (which e.g., Yaspot relies on). Feel free to try it out, any feedback is greatly appreciated! Find attached some screenshots from the QSpot client.

looks great. I think you should create a new thread for this one. Looking forward to test it.

we now have Qtify, yaspot, footify and the newerst member...Qspot.

thx

... and qtspotify.

With so many developers working on different Spotify clients, and considering that a few now appear to have been abandoned, maybe it could be a good idea to create a Maemo-Spotify team? It seems like a waste to redo everything for each client, rather than working together on a supported and stable one.

I think competition is healthy in terms of choice, but having 5 clients doing (or partially doing) the same thing seems a bit of an overkill to me

Maybe one of you who are working actively on one of the clients could initiate such a team/project?

Do all these clients need premium account?

Yes there are quite a few Spotify clients available at the moment.. But I think that also can be a good thing to some extent, however I think the suggestion of a Maemo-Spotify team sounds like a really good idea! The best features from all clients could be combined, and more focus could be spent on stability issues etc.

At the moment all N900 Spotify clients require a premium subscription, and I think this is a restriction that we will have to live with. Spotify has also restricted use of their official mobile clients to premium subscribers only, and e.g., the despotify team has decided not to circumvent this restriction. Also the offline functionality is something that probably will not show up in the unofficial clients in the near future (even if its implementation should be quite straightforward), as this would easily enable to download music directly from Spotify.

Spotify has nowadays 3 different subscription possibilities:

Premium - 9,99
Unlimited - 4,99
Open - Free

I have the premium. Has anyone tested if unlimited is enough to work with despotify based players? I bet it isn't enough for the libopenspotify based? It's annoying to pay 9,99 when I can't get the full use for the price, eg. "offline mode" isn't available for us N900 users.

Unlimited doesn't work with despotify, unfortunately. I've not heard of any plans to open up third-party client access to Unlimited subscribers.

As far as I know, new solutions most often appear when someone isn't satisfied with what is available. That was the case for me.

It's a fun hack too, and not only because people seem to want a better client.

Such a team might be a very good idea if there was a good way to find the parts to take from the different clients and stitch together into something new. Add to this that libdespoify and libopenspotify work differently in some ways which would make it necessary to pick one of the two.

On top of this, you need to decide on what kind of client to aim for. I like minimalism, with small binaries that are fast and good at what they do. Saying that I'm "anti bling" might be too harsh but it's pretty close to the truth and it's the reason footify looks like it does. I would have a hard time compromising performance and maintainability for animations or "fancy looking" widgets.

i'm having the same "client upgrade required" issue once again... is anybody able to update the despotify library by any chance?

thanks...

Thanks for the effort of building a new Spotify client - this one shows quite nice potential. And it works - sort of. My playlists show up but the appear to be empty, and searching for music and playing it works - as long as the screen stays lit, as soon as the device hits power save mode the music start to stutter. I understand that this is most likely a problem in the underlying spotify-library but I'm still back to Symbian where in the same WLAN the device manages to actually play music...