bside

Turn a song or album link into links for the other streaming apps. Supports Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music.

Install

brew install smithbr/tap/bs

Or with Go:

go install github.com/smithbr/bside/cmd/bs@latest

Usage

bs [-to spotify|apple|youtube] [-all] [link]
bs setup

Pasting links without quotes

zsh treats the ? in song links as a wildcard and stops with no matches found. Add this to ~/.zshrc to paste links as-is:

alias bs='noglob bs'

Or run bs with no link and paste it at the prompt.

Spotify credentials

Searching Spotify needs an app from the Spotify developer dashboard, and Spotify only lets an app use the Web API when the account that owns it has Premium. Run this once:

bs setup

It opens the dashboard, tells you what to put in each field, checks the Client ID and secret you paste back, and saves them in ~/.config/bside/bside.json (or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/bside/bside.json if set).

Or set SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID and SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET.

export SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID=your-client-id && \
export SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET=your-client-secret && \
bs https://open.spotify.com/tr...