Modified Spotify Client for Windows

System requirements

• OS: Windows 7-11
• Spotify: Recommended official version 1.1.96.785
• For Windows Desktop only (Microsoft store version is not suitable).
• PowerShell: 3 or higher

Features

• Blocks all banner, video and audio ads in the client
• Unlocks the skip function of any track
• Hiding podcasts, episodes and audiobooks from the homepage (optional)
• Block Spotify automatic updates (optional)
• Automatic clearing of audio cache (optional)
• More experimental features have been activated (see the full list)
• Disabled Sentry (Prevented Sentry from sending console log/error/warning to Spotify developers)
• Disabled logging (Stopped various elements to log user interaction)
• Removed RTL rules (Removed all right-to-left CSS rules to simplify CSS files)
• Code minification

Fast installation / Update

Choose installation type:

Usual installation

During installation, you need to confirm some actions, also contains:

• All experimental features included

Just download and run Install.bat

or

Run The following command in PowerShell:

[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12; (iwr -useb 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SpotX-CLI/SpotX-Win/main/Install.ps1').Content | iex

Automatic full installation

Automatic installation without confirmation, what does it do?

• Automatic removal of Spotify MS if it was found
• Automatic installation of the recommended version of Spotify (if another client has already been found, it will be installed over)
• Hiding podcasts/episodes/audiobooks from the homepage
• Automatic blocking of Spotify updates
• All experimental features included
• After the installation is completed, the client will autorun.

Just download and run Install_Auto.bat

or

Run The following command in PowerShell:

[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12; iex "& { $((iwr -useb 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SpotX-CLI/SpotX-Win/main/Install.ps1').Content) } -confirm_uninstall_ms_spoti -confirm_spoti_recomended_over -podcasts_off -cache_off -block_update_on -start_spoti"

Other types of installations

Automatic basic installation

Automatic basic installation without confirmation, what does it do?

• Automatic removal of Spotify MS if it was found
• Automatic installation of the recommended version of Spotify (if another client has already been found, it will be installed over)
• After the installation is completed, the client will autorun

Just download and run Install_Basic.bat

or

Run The following command in PowerShell:

[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12; iex "& { $((iwr -useb 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SpotX-CLI/SpotX-Win/main/Install.ps1').Content) } -confirm_uninstall_ms_spoti -confirm_spoti_recomended_over -podcasts_on -cache_off -block_update_off -exp_standart -hide_col_icon_off -start_spoti"

Installation for premium

Usual installation only without ad blocking, for those who have a premium account, also contains:

• All experimental features included

Just download and run Install_Prem.bat

or

Run The following command in PowerShell:

[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12; iex "& { $((iwr -useb 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SpotX-CLI/SpotX-Win/main/Install.ps1').Content) } -premium"

Installing with Scoop

Installing SpotX via the Scoop package manager includes:

• Automatic removal of Spotify MS if it was found
• Automatic installation of the recommended version of Spotify (if another client has already been found, it will be installed over)
• Hiding podcasts/episodes/audiobooks from the homepage
• Automatic blocking of Spotify updates
• All experimental features included

Installing SpotX with Scoop

Just run these commands in the command prompt or powershell:

scoop bucket add nonportable
scoop install spotx-np

Updating SpotX with Scoop

To update SpotX or check for updates run this command in the command prompt or powershell:

scoop update spotx-np

Uninstalling SpotX with Scoop

To fully uninstall SpotX and Spotify run this command in the command prompt or powershell:

scoop uninstall spotx-np

Installing with parameters

You can specify various parameters for a more flexible installation, more details here

Uninstall

• Just run Uninstall.bat

or

• Reinstall Spotify (Full uninstall Spotify recommended)

FAQ

• Read FAQ

Credits

• This repository partially uses BlockTheSpot, and also some tricks were taken from spicetify-cli, many thanks to the contributors