/SpotX

Blocking ads and updates for the desktop version of Spotify, disabling podcasts and something else.

Primary LanguagePowerShellMIT LicenseMIT

Modified Spotify Client for Windows

System requirements:

  • OS: Windows 7-11
  • Spotify: Recommended official version 1.1.84.716
  • For Windows Desktop only (Microsoft store version is not suitable).
  • Free Account
  • 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
  • Podcasts disabled (optional)
  • Blocks automatic updates (optional)
  • Automatic cache clearing (optional)
  • Enabled Enhance playlist
  • Enabled the new Search with chips experience
  • Enabled a condensed discography shelf on artist pages
  • 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:

or

  • Run The following command in PowerShell:
[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12; Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/amd64fox/SpotX/main/Install.ps1' | Invoke-Expression

Uninstall:

or

  • Reinstall Spotify

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Outdated versions of PowerShell

If you are using Windows 7, there may be errors in the installation process due to an outdated version of NET Framework and PowerShell.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

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.

I want to return old icons

There is an answer here, if you do not like the new icons leave your comment there.

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.