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The sense of depth in the logo is pretty incredible. In other news, does anyone know if there is a terminal client for Spotify?

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http://despotify.sourceforge.net/

Not sure if it still works. If it does work it requires that your user is subscribed to Spotify Premium I believe.

For Spotify, there is also Artem Gordinsky's fabulous Spotifree:

https://github.com/ArtemGordinsky/SpotiFree

http://spotifree.gordinskiy.com/

DISCLAIMER: This has nothing to do with command-line anything, it's just a useful project I discovered and wanted to share.

You can use an MPD terminal client with Mopidy [1] (an MPD server). There are also graphical clients for both desktop and mobile. [2]

Mopidy supports local files, Spotify, Soundcloud and Google Play Music, all mixed in the same playlists.

1: http://www.mopidy.com/

2: http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Clients

Note that there is also Soundcloud support for mopidy, among other extensions:

http://docs.mopidy.com/en/latest/ext/external/#mopidy-soundc...

Considering how absolutely terrible the native client is for Spotify I'm assuming a terminal client would just run rm -rf / or some other joyful error. I wouldn't trust anyone at the Spotify team to code...well really any user interface, GUI or otherwise.

What don't you like about the native client for Spotify? I (on OS X) find it quite nice, actually. (Maybe you're speaking of the Linux client, which I haven't used in a while.)

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