Spotify
With Spotify, it’s easy to find the right music or podcast for every moment – on your phone, your computer, your tablet and more.
There are millions of tracks and episodes on Spotify. So whether you’re behind the wheel, working out, partying or relaxing, the right music or podcast is always at your fingertips. Choose what you want to listen to, or let Spotify surprise you.
You can also browse through the collections of friends, artists, and celebrities, or create a radio station and just sit back.
Installation
Get the installer [Official]
The Spotify installer can be found on Spotify.
Get the installer [SpotX]
The SpotX patcher used for patching the desktop version of Spotify installer can be found on Github.
About SpotX:
The script can be used to modify an existing spotify install but to avoid version conflicts or unsupported Installation present it is best to install spotify from it's official website or using the SpotX installer.
This following powershell command can directly be used to install the necesarry and supported version of Spotify:
# Available on SpotX Github
# Running this command invokes the install process for SpotX to install and patch spotify automatically
iex "& { $(iwr -useb 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SpotX-Official/spotx-official.github.io/main/run.ps1') } -confirm_uninstall_ms_spoti -confirm_spoti_recomended_over -podcasts_off -block_update_on -start_spoti -new_theme -adsections_off -lyrics_stat spotify"
Step 2: Setup & Login
If you used the SpotX install command then spotify should be install and ready to use else complete the setup process by running and following the spotify music installer & Login to sync it to your spotify account and follow the app instructions.
Step 3: To apply plugins and theming
Spicetify is by-far the best method to customize your spotify install, it uses a plugin marketplace inside the spotify application to install plugins and themes directly. Install spicetify by navigating to Spicetify.
This following powershell command can directly be used to install Spicetify:
#Available on spicetify website
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spicetify/cli/main/install.ps1 | iex
Features
- Blocks all banner, video and audio ads in the client
- Hiding podcasts, episodes and audiobooks from the homepage (optional)
- Block Spotify automatic updates (optional)
- Disabled sentry's console log/error/warning messages to Spotify developers, halted user interaction logging, eliminated right-to-left CSS rules for simplification, and performed code minification
Extensions
Spicetify allows us to import Javascript code to be executed along the main spotify code to interact with and enchance the functionality of the application. Extensions can be installed from the Spicetify website. The website includes a list for valid maintained extensions. Replace "file name" with the "extension_name".js without the quotation marks.
spicetify config extensions "file name".js
spicetify apply
Theming
We can apply themes using Spicetify through the marketplace or manually installing the theme files, spicetify uses CSS snippets to modify the web based UI of the spotify client. Themes can be installed from Spicetify Themes, Comfy and Catppuccin Theme.
Nuking / Deleting
Uninstall spotify using control panel.
Important:
To completely remove all spotify, spicetify and spotx config and their leftover files you can consider using the script which strips out all known install directories: Nuke Spotify
Support for SpotX & Spicetify
Visit their respective github repositories for any further inquires.