aria.fm
Finally, Spotify on Linux doesn't suck. (now on Windows too 💖)
$ yay -S aria-fm-bin
Arch Linux, via the AUR. Elsewhere: the AppImage, tarball, or Windows installer. Spotify Premium required.
Controls that keep up
Play, pause, and seek happen on your machine, not on a server. There's no gap between the click and the sound.
Volume that reacts
Drag the slider and the loudness changes right then — not half a second later.
Synced lyrics
The same lyrics the official app shows, scrolling in time with the song.
Works with your desktop
Media keys, the lockscreen, and your desktop's volume controls all drive playback, wherever the app is.
Replays start instantly
Songs you've played are cached on disk, so hearing them again doesn't wait on the network — even after a restart.
Everything is a keystroke away
Ctrl K opens a palette that searches everything: play a song, jump to an artist, or change a setting from any screen.
Nothing phones home. No telemetry, no analytics, no accounts of its own — everything aria.fm stores stays on your machine.
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