A cross-platform extensible open-source music streaming platform.<br> Bring your own music metadata/playlist/audio-source with plugins created by community or by yourself. A small step towards the decentralized music streaming era!

Btw it's not just another Electron app 😉

Spotube Desktop

Spotube Mobile

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🌃 Features

🧩 Plugin powered, supports any platform or custom music service through plugins.
🗺️ Community driven plugins for popular platforms or create your own.
⬇️ Freely downloadable tracks with tagged metadata.
🖥️ 📱 Cross-platform support.
🪶 Small size & less data usage.
🕒 Time synced lyrics regardless of the plugin support.
✋ No telemetry, diagnostics or user data collection.
🚀 Native performance.
📖 Open source/libre software.
🔉 Playback control is done locally, not on the server.

📜 ⬇️ Installation guide

New versions usually release every 3-4 months.<br /> This handy table lists all the methods you can use to install Spotube:

<table> <tr> <th>Platform</th> <th>Package/Installation Method</th> </tr> <tr> <td>Windows</td> <td> <a href="https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/releases/latest/download/Spotube-windows-x86_64-setup.exe"> <img width="220" alt="Windows Download" src="https://get.todoist.help/hc/article_attachments/4403191721234/WindowsButton.svg"> </a> </tr> <tr> <td>MacOS</td> <td> <a href="https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/releases/latest/download/Spotube-macos-universal.dmg"> <img width="220" alt="MacOS Download" src="https://memory-map.com/wp-content/uploads/download-mac-OS-01.svg"> </a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Android</td> <td> <a href="https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/releases/latest/download/Spotube-android-all-arch.apk"> <img width="220" alt="APK download" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/114044633/223920025-83687de0-e463-4c5d-8122-e06e4bb7d40c.png"> </a> <br/> <a href="https://f-droid.org/packages/oss.krtirtho.spotube"> <img width="220" alt="Download from F-Droid" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/61944859/174589876-bace24c0-b3fd-4c4a-bdb4-6fa82b5853ec.png"> </a> </td> </tr> <tr> <tr> <td>iOS</td> <td> <a href="https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/releases/latest/download/Spotube-iOS.ipa"> <img width="220" alt="Download iOS IPA" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3e50d93d-fb39-435c-be6b-337745f7c423"> </a> <br/> <blockquote style="color:red"> *iPA file only. Requires sideloading with <a href="https://altstore.io/">AltStore</a> or similar tools. </blockquote> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Flatpak</td> <td> <p><code>flatpak install com.github.KRTirtho.Spotube</code></p> <a href="https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.github.KRTirtho.Spotube"> <img width="220" alt="Download on Flathub" src="https://flathub.org/assets/badges/flathub-badge-en.png"> </a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>AppImage</td> <td>AppImage's lacking stability led to it's temporary removal. More information at https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/issues/1082</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Debian/Ubuntu</td> <td> <a href="https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/releases/latest/download/Spotube-linux-x86_64.deb"> <img width="220" alt="Debian/Ubuntu Download" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/61944859/169097994-e92aff78-fd75-4c93-b6e4-f072a4b5a7ed.png"> </a> <p>Then run: <code>sudo apt install ./Spotube-linux-x86_64.deb</code></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Arch/Manjaro</td> <td> <p>With pamac: <code>sudo pamac install spotube-bin</code></p> <p>With yay: <code>yay -Sy spotube-bin</code></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Fedora/OpenSuse</td> <td> <a href="https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/releases/latest/download/Spotube-linux-x86_64.rpm"> <img width="220" alt="Fedora/OpenSuse Download" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/61944859/223638350-5926b9da-04d6-4edd-931d-ad533e4ff058.png"> </a> <p>For Fedora: <code>sudo dnf install ./Spotube-linux-x86_64.rpm</code></p> <p>For OpenSuse: <code>sudo zypper in ./Spotube-linux-x86_64.rpm</code></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Linux (tarball)</td> <td> <a href="https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/releases/latest"> <img width="220" alt="Tarball Download" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/61944859/169456985-e0ba1fd4-10e8-4cc0-ab94-337acc6e0295.png"> </a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Macos - <a href="https://brew.sh">Homebrew</a></td> <td> <pre lang="bash"> brew tap krtirtho/apps brew install --cask spotube </pre> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Windows - <a href="https://chocolatey.org">Chocolatey</a></td> <td> <p><code>choco install spotube</code></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Windows - <a href="https://scoop.sh">Scoop</a></td> <td> <p><code>scoop bucket add extras</code></p> <p><code>scoop install spotube</code></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Windows - <a href="https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli">WinGet</a></td> <td> <p><code>winget install --id KRTirtho.Spotube</code></p> </td> </tr> </table>

🔄 Nightly Builds

Grab the latest nightly builds of Spotube from the GitHub Releases.

🕳️ Building from source

You can compile Spotube's source code by following these instructions.

👥 The Spotube team

Kingkor Roy Tirtho - The Founder, Maintainer and Lead Developer
Owen Connor - The Cool Discord Moderator
Piotr Rogowski - The MacOS Developer
Rusty Apple - The Mysterious Unknown Guy

💼 License

Spotube is open source and licensed under the BSD-4-Clause License.

If you are curious, you can read the reason of choosing this license.

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