SpotX/README.md

Modified Spotify Client for Windows

System requirements:

• OS: Windows 7-11
• Spotify: Recommended official version 1.1.88.612
• 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 (temporarily disabled)
• Enabled new lyrics
• Enabled new search with chips experience
• Enabled a condensed discography shelf on artist pages
• Enabled Ignore In Recommendations
• 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:

Usual installation

During installation, you need to confirm some actions

• 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' | iex

Automatic installation

Automatic installation without confirmation (remove Spotify MS, install over recommended version, remove podcasts from homepage, block updates, no cache clear installation)

• Just download and run Install_Auto.bat

or

  [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12; iex "& { $(iwr -useb 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/amd64fox/SpotX/main/Install.ps1') } -confirm_uninstall_ms_spoti -confirm_spoti_recomended_over -podcasts_off -cache_off -block_update_on"

Installation for premium

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

• 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') } -premium"

Русский установщик

Обычный установщик с подтверждениями на русском языке

• Скачайте и запустите Install_Rus.bat

или

• Запустите следующую строку напрямую в терминале PowerShell:

  [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12; iwr -useb 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/amd64fox/SpotX/main/scripts/Install_Rus.ps1' | iex

Uninstall:

• Just run Uninstall.bat

or

• Reinstall Spotify (Full uninstall recommended)

Possible problems:

Outdated versions of PowerShell

If you are using Windows 7, there may be errors in the installation process due to an outdated version of NET Framework and PowerShell. Do the following:

• Upgrade to NET Framework 4.8
• Upgrade to WMF 5.1
• Reboot your PC

After running Install.bat, the message "Curl command line utility not found" appeared

The curl command was not found in the system (in windows 10 and above it comes out of the box), you need to install it manually:

• Follow the link and download the installation file, depending on the bitness of the OS.
• We start the installation process, at the end we must restart the PC.

How do I go back to the previous version of the client ?

If you have problems with the patch after upgrading the client version, then use this tool to revert back to the working version.

Additional Notes:

• The repository is based on BlockTheSpot, and also some tricks were taken from spicetify-cli, many thanks to the contributors
• SpotX will only work correctly on the latest versions of Spotify, please make sure of this before asking a question.
• The modifiable files are replaced by the Spotify installer every time it is updated, so you will need to apply the patch again when this happens.
• SpotX will be installed even if you are using Spicetify, but you may need to run Install.bat again after running the spicetify apply or other commands.