xforce said:
is there any way to use Spotify on FreeBSD 11.1?
yes as
lebarondemerde pointed out, the only current solution for Spotify Streaming on FreeBSD is running Linux as VM, which can be comfortable enough, especially provided you already did it for other purpose, like Netflix.
lebarondemerde said:
... or run it in a VM on top of Linux/Windows etc...
Sure, I use OpenSuSE Leap on QEMU with Google-Chrome-Stable, for both Spotify and Netflix, and it never gives problems
Until recently
emulators/playonbsd's pre-packaged wine port for Firefox was a good way of streaming Spotify.
Unfortunately the Firefox version PlayonBSD used for its port is no longer able to display spotify.com, due to incompatibility of latest Adobe Flash Player version with legacy Firefox.
On the other hand I do not know of anyone who reportedly ran a recent version of Firefox on wine.
There are however several worth ways of streaming music on FreeBSD:
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multimedia/minitube
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audio/mps
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multimedia/livestreamer (I love this one)
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www/get_flash_videos,
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multimedia/mps-youtube (love this one too)
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multimedia/mplayer.
There are also some other good lightweight streaming utilities, available on github, which compile without problem on FreeBSD:
1) streamlink also officially available on OpenBSD repositories, as ported by
Ibara
2) pyradio, just build it with
devel/py3-pip
3) pms (Poor Man's Spotify), yes you heard right, it's an amazing streamer. You can easily build this as well with pip
4) Finally, I have never tried this, even on Linux (as there wasn't an official Slack package), but there's been a lot of rumor around
Tizonia. I've grown curious about compiling it since
it officially supports Spotify streaming, and was thinking of giving it a try, just a couple of days ago, like the silly music addict I am