When using Plucky, there are several options for listening to streaming music while excluding album cover art.

Windows

Spotify app

Spotify’s desktop app can be neutralized so that songs are playable but all images/videos are gutted. Here’s how:

  1. Log in your account in the desktop app. This requires allow spotify.com to be in your config. Once you are logged in, delete the rule allowing spotify.com.

  2. Add the following rules to your config:

    allow audio-ak-spotify-com.akamaized.net
allow audio4-ak-spotify-com.akamaized.net
allow apresolve.spotify.com
allow gue1-spclient.spotify.com
feature system

    At this point music can be listened to because of the allowed hosts rules, but feature system guts everything else. Unfortunately, this includes the search functionality as well. It can be restored but will come with a small amount of album art for some reason.

    If you want to be able to search at the risk of some album art being visible, add this:

    allow gue1-dealer.spotify.com

  3. Finally, delete the cache to remove images that were downloaded from before. You can do this either of two ways:

    • In the Spotify app, go to your User in the top right and from the dropdown menu Settings > Storage > Clear Cache
    • In File Explorer go to %localappdata%/Spotify/Storage and delete everything in this folder

macOS

Spotify app

Follow instructions from Windows | Desktop Spotify The only difference is the location of the cache, which can be found in ~/Library/Application Support/Spotify/PersistentCache/Storage

Linux

Spotify app

Follow instructions from Windows | Spotify app The only difference is the location of the cache, which can be found in ~/.cache/spotify/Storage

Android

Streaming music services that work with Pluckeye on Android

Streaming music services that do not work with Pluckeye on Android

Unknown, other services

  • siriusxm
Last updated: 2024-09-27