Modified Spotify Client for Windows

System requirements

• OS: Windows 7-11
• Spotify: Recommended official version 1.1.91.824
• 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
• Full screen mode activated
• Hidden podcasts and episodes from the homepage (optional)
• Blocks automatic updates (optional)
• Automatic cache clearing (optional)
• Enabled enhance playlist
• Enabled enhance liked songs UI
• Enabled new lyrics
• Enabled a condensed discography shelf on artist pages
• Enabled Ignore In Recommendations
• Enabled Equalizer
• Enabled new device picker panel
• Activated Made For You" in the left sidebar
• 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/amd64fox/SpotX/main/Install.ps1').Content | iex

Automated basic installation

Automated 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/amd64fox/SpotX/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"

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)
• Removal of podcasts from the main page
• 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/amd64fox/SpotX/main/Install.ps1').Content) } -confirm_uninstall_ms_spoti -confirm_spoti_recomended_over -podcasts_off -cache_off -block_update_on -start_spoti"

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)
• Removal of podcasts from the main page
• 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

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/amd64fox/SpotX/main/Install.ps1').Content) } -premium"

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 recommended)

FAQ

• Read FAQ

Credits

• The repository is based on BlockTheSpot, and also some tricks were taken from spicetify-cli, many thanks to the contributors