Selfhostable (website) version of spotube

[Robin-Sch]

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Pain

Not really a "pain", but I'd be nice if there was a web version of the app. This way I don't have to download spotube to multiple devices, I can just have one selfhosted version and all my settings, preferences, and everything else is "synced" between devices.

Suggested solution

A docker container maybe? Or else just something which you can install and it will listen on a specific port and you can then visit it using a web browser

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[MerkomassDev]

That would involve rewriting the entire app all over again (completely new app). From what I can tell, flutter is not compatible with web in any useful way.

[KRTirtho]

This is possible as Flutter supports web. But the problem is with CORS. YouTube API and some of the Spotify API simply won't work in the browser.

[timkgh]

If you make a self-hosted server, you could proxy requests to the YT and Spotify APIs via the server so it's the same domain, no CORS issues.

A web app would be nice and it would complete the offering.

[KRTirtho]

In that case, what will be the point of making this app if everything will be handled by a central server?
The benefit of using a binary app instead of client-server based app is it can do all the operations in real-time without facing any CORS errors with minimal resource usage.
If there's a client-server based config, we've to reimplement the entire logic in server-side dart and call from Spotube flutter web. What's really the point in that case? You get double the overhead and double resource usage. Btw, flutter web is not as smooth as native apps.

[timkgh]

You would not implement the entire logic, just a light (almost) pass-through proxy for the YT and Spotify API requests.

Btw, flutter web is not as smooth as native apps.

This probably kills the idea, though I think it would be nice to have something similar to https://spotfy.one or https://beatbump.io/ or https://hyperpipe.surge.sh/

[P6g9YHK6]

linuxserver released an image for this:
https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-spotube

[KRTirtho]

That's great 🚀 . But I wonder how that works through Web. Because analyzing the Dockerfile, it seems to only install the .deb package of Spotube. How's that gonna be accessible through PORT 3000?
My guess is probably somekind of automated VNC?

[Robin-Sch]

It's based on kasmvnc, so yeah