Spot, a native Spotify client that will suit your GNOME very well, if you are Premium

I generally like PWA. So much so that I stopped looking for something to install web applications on my operating systems for a long time and I do almost everything from my web browser. But I have to admit that not all web applications seem perfect to me, and among them are the streaming music. For that reason, because it does not rain to everyone's liking, he was born Spot, and with its name and having mentioned streaming music, surely you know what service it was designed for.

Indeed, Spot is a native player to listen to music from Spotify. Before continuing, and in order not to waste anyone's time, I have to advise something important: to be able to use this app, we will need a Spotify Premium account; if we have a free account, it just won't be able to connect. Explained this, I think that the capture that we have heading this article, taken from the official project website, already gives us an idea of ​​why there is a spot.

Spot only works with Premium accounts

Spot is developed in Rust and GTK and has a design that it will look especially good in GNOME. Logically, and like practically everything that exists for Linux, it can be used in other desktops / graphical environments, but it will clash a bit if it is not installed in the one used by the main versions of systems such as Fedora or Ubuntu.

What Spot offers is the following:

• It is important to insist that works only with Premium accounts.
• Minimal playback control, with just the play / pause, previous / next song and forward / back buttons and a progress bar.
• Search for the library, for saved discs.
• Search for discs.
• Artist view.
• Credential management with Secret Service by DBus.

Spot requires Rust, GTK3 and a few more things so you have to build / install the dependencies as explained on their GitHub page (link above). If you do not want to install any of this, it is also available as flatpak package, so installing it is as simple as opening our software center, searching for "spot" and installing what appears with "Flathub" as the source.