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Musique: The blazing-fast Spotify desktop client

Musique

⚠️ Unofficial. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Spotify.

Uses the reverse-engineered librespot protocol, which is against Spotify's Terms of Service. Provided as-is for educational purposes. Use at your own risk.

Requires a Spotify Premium account for playback.

Screenshots

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Features

  • Full playback - stream audio directly via a patched librespot core (Spotify Premium required)
  • Synced Lyrics - Line-by-line and word-by-word lyrics from LRCLIB, with romanization for Japanese and Chinese.
  • Share links - Cross-platform song link sharing via odesli (example: song.link, album.link)
  • Library Sync + offline cache - playlists, saved tracks, new releases (reads are cache-first for offline compatability)
  • Native window chrome/tint - Windows 11 Mica/Acrylic, and MacOS vibrancy.
  • Dynamic Accent Colors - Based on the album/playlist, your wallpaper, or your system accent color.
  • Customizable Transparency
  • OS media controls integration

⚠️ In progress:

  • Discord Rich Presence - Discord rich presence compatabilty, to show what you're listening to.
  • LastFM integration - Auto scrobbling, and statistics in-app.

Tech Stack

Frontend:

  • React 19
  • Typescript
  • Vite 7
  • Tailwind v4
  • Zustand
  • Tanstack Query
  • React Router

Backend:

  • Rust
  • Tauri 2
  • sqlx + SQLite
  • keyring (OS keychain)
  • reqwest
  • Vendored librespot

Prerequisites

  • A Spotify Premium account (required for playback)
  • A Spotify app in the Developer Dashboard , with valid client_id and client_secret
  • Rust toolchain
  • Node + pnpm v11
  • Platform build deps (see below)

Security

Tokens and the client secret live only in the OS keyring (Windows Credential Manager / MacOS Keychain / Secret Service)

Nothing sensitive crosses the IPC boundary to the frontend, and no credentials are committed to the repo

Acknowledgements

  • librespot: the open Spotify protocol client this is built on (MIT)
  • LRCLIB: synced lyrics
  • Cider: the inspiration

License

MIT: see the license file. Vendored librespot retains its own MIT license under src-tauri/vendor/

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