[GH-ISSUE #592] Make this work with non-premium accounts #354

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opened 2026-02-28 14:32:24 +03:00 by kerem · 3 comments

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2026-02-28 14:32:24 +03:00

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Originally created by @Defirence on GitHub (Apr 3, 2025).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/jpochyla/psst/issues/592

I don't see why this can't work with free accounts, why is it locked to premium? What is the point of using an alternative GUI and maintaining it when it's practically worthless?

You could have implemented this code from the beginning.

Originally created by @Defirence on GitHub (Apr 3, 2025). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/jpochyla/psst/issues/592 I don't see why this can't work with free accounts, why is it locked to premium? What is the point of using an alternative GUI and maintaining it when it's practically worthless? You could have implemented this code from the beginning.

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2026-02-28 14:32:25 +03:00

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@jacksongoode commented on GitHub (Apr 3, 2025):

@Defirence This would break Spotify TOS.

@jacksongoode commented on GitHub (Apr 3, 2025): @Defirence This would break Spotify TOS.

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@SO9010 commented on GitHub (Apr 3, 2025):

Thank you @jacksongoode I was about to say, I will give a more detailed explanation in a bit :)

@SO9010 commented on GitHub (Apr 3, 2025): Thank you @jacksongoode I was about to say, I will give a more detailed explanation in a bit :)

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@SO9010 commented on GitHub (Apr 3, 2025):

Ok, so @Defirence, this is what FOSS software is like; if you look at projects like GIMP, sometimes it takes a very long time to develop a new feature. Some of the issues in the repo are ones that we can't solve as they are upstream issues, or they will take a while to develop. There arent many developers for this project, but there are some. But we are all contributing in our free time so please be patient.

I think you are just annoyed at the fact that you can't use a non-premium account do use this. I'm pretty sure this uses youtube piped to play the music and just uses the spotify API to find the music which is associated to the users account. This is why you don't need a premium account as we are streaming the data from spotify and are nearly only using spotify apis.

@SO9010 commented on GitHub (Apr 3, 2025): Ok, so @Defirence, this is what FOSS software is like; if you look at projects like GIMP, sometimes it takes a very long time to develop a new feature. Some of the issues in the repo are ones that we can't solve as they are upstream issues, or they will take a while to develop. There arent many developers for this project, but there are some. But we are all contributing in our free time so please be patient. I think you are just annoyed at the fact that you can't use a non-premium account do use [this](https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube). I'm pretty sure this uses youtube piped to play the music and just uses the spotify API to find the music which is associated to the users account. This is why you don't need a premium account as we are streaming the data from spotify and are nearly only using spotify apis.