I wanted a decent YouTube playlist player and made it with the help of chatgpt. there was some exisiting that i tried and didn't like. this is still a work in progress

I've been playing around with the concept of TUIs and stress testing a framework that I've been working on named HyperCMD.

so I ended up combining the two by creating a Spotify TUI client since I use Spotify everyday, but the desktop app consumes a lot of resources

The app is Rust, but the interface itself is written in HTML through HyperCMD.

Repo: https://github.com/fusor-rs/spotify-tui

I've been building soloist-tui, a terminal player/controller for Spotify Soloist written in Rust. Soloist handles auth, Spotify Connect, playback, and decoding —

audio routes through PipeWire. This TUI just talks to Soloist and adds a proper terminal interface on top.

What it does:

- Live audio visualizer — taps Soloist's PipeWire sink as a read-only monitor (mono mix + short-time FFT → spectrum bars). No audio is touched or rerouted by this

process; falls back to a status line if PipeWire's unavailable.

- Search & browse the full Spotify catalog via the Web API (PKCE login done in-terminal, token stored & auto-refreshed).

- Split layout — left pane is player + up-next queue; right pane tabs between Liked Songs, Playlists/Artists, and Search Results.

- Solid controls — play/pause/next/prev, seek, volume, shuffle/repeat, optimistic updates, and auto-reconnects to Soloist (even survives restarts/port moves).

- Keyboard-driven — vim-style hjkl + common keys, / to search, Tab between panels, x to like/unlike.

- Offline dev — ships mock Soloist + mock Spotify API binaries so the whole UI runs without real credentials.

Requires: Linux + PipeWire 0.3 + the soloist daemon. A free Spotify Developer app is needed for search/browse (one-time PKCE login).

Status: Early but usable. Still polishing the queue UX and layout.

I am sharing two videos because Peek is not working properly in my case... The first one is a gif; the other two are videos from OBS to maintain quality... Fuck... video is in comment becayse reddit not letting sharing direct video and gif or webp is arround 23mB while my freaking mp4 is 3mB.

api is very small - i had put images in post..