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Re: Show HN: Spotifyd – A spotify daemon

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Post by tiernano »

If this works as expected (and i plan on trying it out this weekend) it would lead the way to being able to add Spotify Connect devices to existing Stereo systems cheaply (a Raspberry Pi and possibly an external sound card)... Do the Pis still have crappy Stereo Audio? i remember the first (and possible second) gen ones being bad... not sure about the newer ones...

Re: Show HN: Spotifyd – A spotify daemon

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Post by aaachilless »

I think I think this is pretty cool, but I'm not sure if the reasons I think it's cool are valid. For example, I can imagine a jukebox app for parties or bars accessible via SMS, but I can't tell if Spotifyd actually enables such an app. Furthermore, if Spotifyd does enable such an app, would that app be impossible without Spotifyd?

I glanced at the readme, but it looks like it's written for someone who already knows why they wanted an open source Spotify client.

Regardless of all the above, good work!

Re: Show HN: Spotifyd – A spotify daemon

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Post by dfgldjglj »

tiernano wrote: post #2

If this works as expected (and i plan on trying it out this weekend) it would lead the way to being able to add Spotify Connect devices to existing Stereo systems cheaply (a Raspberry Pi and possibly an external sound card)... Do the Pis still have crappy Stereo Audio? i remember the first (and possible second) gen ones being bad... not sure about the newer ones...

To repurpose your old stereo with a raspberry today, just run https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync on it :-)

This way you can send any audio from laptop/phone to the stereo over lan.

Not sure why you would want to limit yourself to the service of a single provider. (What value does Spotify Connect add, if any?)

Re: Show HN: Spotifyd – A spotify daemon

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Post by rahimnathwani »

dfgldjglj wrote: post #4
tiernano wrote: post #2

If this works as expected (and i plan on trying it out this weekend) it would lead the way to being able to add Spotify Connect devices to existing Stereo systems cheaply (a Raspberry Pi and possibly an external sound card)... Do the Pis still have crappy Stereo Audio? i remember the first (and possible second) gen ones being bad... not sure about the newer ones...

To repurpose your old stereo with a raspberry today, just run https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync on it :-) This way you can send any audio from laptop/phone to the stereo over lan. Not sure why you would want to limit yourself to the service of a single provider. (What value does Spotify Connect add, if any?)

Shairport-sync is great for iOS clients, but I know of no way to stream the audio from my Pixel to my Pi.

Re: Show HN: Spotifyd – A spotify daemon

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Post by izacus »

tiernano wrote: post #2

If this works as expected (and i plan on trying it out this weekend) it would lead the way to being able to add Spotify Connect devices to existing Stereo systems cheaply (a Raspberry Pi and possibly an external sound card)... Do the Pis still have crappy Stereo Audio? i remember the first (and possible second) gen ones being bad... not sure about the newer ones...

Unless you already own a RPi (or enjoy building your own), getting Chromecast audio is going to be the better option for this use case.

Re: Show HN: Spotifyd – A spotify daemon

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Post by Nullabillity »

aaachilless wrote: post #3

I think I think this is pretty cool, but I'm not sure if the reasons I think it's cool are valid. For example, I can imagine a jukebox app for parties or bars accessible via SMS, but I can't tell if Spotifyd actually enables such an app. Furthermore, if Spotifyd does enable such an app, would that app be impossible without Spotifyd? I glanced at the readme, but it looks like it's written for someone who already knows…

Seems like sp[0] (from the README) could be a pretty decent basis for what you want.

That said, AFAIK it's not technically legal to use regular Spotify in a public space. Spotify Business[1] seems to use a separate client, no idea whether that's instead of or in addition to the consumer ones.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/wandernauta/6800547 [1]: https://www.soundtrackyourbrand.com/spotify-business

Re: Show HN: Spotifyd – A spotify daemon

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Post by adyus »

tiernano wrote: post #2

If this works as expected (and i plan on trying it out this weekend) it would lead the way to being able to add Spotify Connect devices to existing Stereo systems cheaply (a Raspberry Pi and possibly an external sound card)... Do the Pis still have crappy Stereo Audio? i remember the first (and possible second) gen ones being bad... not sure about the newer ones...

It's still buggy, but it mostly works as intended. I've been using it together with https://github.com/badaix/snapcast/ for whole-house multi-room audio.

Re: Show HN: Spotifyd – A spotify daemon

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Post by d76d673dsysuy »

rahimnathwani wrote: post #5
dfgldjglj wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To repurpose your old stereo with a raspberry today, just run https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync on it :-) This way you can send any audio from laptop/phone to the stereo over lan. Not sure why you would want to limit yourself to the service of a single provider. (What value does Spotify Connect add, if any?)

Shairport-sync is great for iOS clients, but I know of no way to stream the audio from my Pixel to my Pi.

For Android, or any other Linux based situation, you can just use PulseAudio for this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5-phFVfZnQ

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