They are two of people's favorite services for listening to music. like watching videos, at least in the second you will have the option to do so. The first has positioned itself as the leader in streaming songs by having large agreements with both music labels and artists, In addition, podcasts have gained a great position on the platform for a few years.
There are many sites and applications that have tried to compete against them, despite this, time continues to position them as the leaders in their sectors. The first of them is Spotify, it gains a great position in the world of albums and songs, with millions of them, while YouTube is the multiplatform of videos, with many millions of songs, all within reach of its audience.
El launch of SpoTube, a free application and alternative to Spotify and YouTube, has come to take hold, giving anyone two options in the same interface. After trying it for a few hours, it is undoubtedly a good app to take into account and to get the most out of due to the many features incorporated by the developer.
SpoTube is born, an application without advertising
Its birth is designed so that you can use the service without seeing any advertising, all from a developer who has worked on it throughout this year. Several things were debugged, asking to connect with Spotify, synchronizing the account is one of the things that it will initially ask you for, also from another such as Last.fm.
It incorporates the YouTube and Spotify API, being a playback of both audio and video on different platforms, It is not only available on Android, it comes to Windows, Mac OS, Linux and at the moment it has not made it to the App Store. iOS you have to wait a reasonable amount of time, not ruling out the incorporation a little later.
When viewing YouTube we will not need much, just open the URL of the clip, you just have a search engine and that's it, it is presented in a simple way. SpoTube has a clear interface, it will always show what is interesting, which are four tabs at the bottom, while at the top you can customize everything.
First of all, download SpoTube
Initially we will need to download the application, this is found both on GitHub and in the Aurora Store, throughout these days it could be seen on download sites. Its popularity is leading to it suppressing any advertising that either of the two services contains, including Last.fm.
It weighs around 53 megabytes, and you don't need a very fast connection to download it or later, although a 4G type will be enough and have some coverage to connect to the server. It is in Spanish, as well as in many other languages., released by the developer in question.
To download SpoTube you can download it from this link, you also have the different versions, all from its website, which is also already operational. It is always advisable to do this from reliable pages and never from an external one, nor from those suspicious ones that ask you for money in exchange for apps.
Using the app on the device
In the first initial test it asks you for different permissions, as well as battery optimization, in the last one click "Cancel" and go to what the specific application is. Among other things, it is more than advisable that you synchronize your Spotify account on it, if it is the free one it is valid, as well as the premium one, which is another option that you can consider in its use.
Once you have downloaded and installed it on your phone, the next step is for you to be able to use it after meeting the requirements, which at the moment are few or almost none. Will ask for a phone, Internet connection and have a registered account on the Spotify page/app, the latter is essential to say the least.
To configure it, you have to do the following:
- Start the application on your phone, you must have previously downloaded it from GitHub, its official page in this link or from the Aurora Store itself
- If you open it, discard the battery optimization, click "Cancel" and the utility itself will start
- Click on the bottom part, specifically on the magnifying glass and then Click the button that says “Sign in with your Spotify account”, it will send you to all the options, press again on the same term
- It will take you to the Spotify platform, log in, you can do this with your Google, Facebook or Apple ID account
- Once inside, it will show you everything related to Spotify, which is what it focuses on, despite this you have the YouTube API
- In the search engine, put the song you want from Spotify and wait for it to load, after that you have the player and you can create lists of your favorite artists
It is easy to use, so it will not be complex to have it installed and using it when you require it, regardless of the official client if you want. If you have done the above, you can start using this without having to depend heavily on the other app, which is the official client of Spotify, leader in streaming.
Now available in the Play Store
After having been outside the store, it is now possible to install the SpoTube client from the Play Store, all after being accepted by Google itself in the official store. It will be necessary to have a company account always linked to the phone and have an Internet connection with which to download the app.
In the short time it was uploaded there were more than 10.000 downloads, it has a rating of 3,7 stars out of a possible five and will be updated by the developer. With it we will be able to download any theme we want, although it is necessary to correct some detail, which is that some topic comes down that has no relation to what we are listening to.
