Spotifyd

#1

Post by fahrradflucht » Mon, Dec 19, 2022, 6:56 PM UTC

Spotifyd
github.com

Re: Spotifyd

#2

Post by jamespullar » Mon, Dec 19, 2022, 7:51 PM UTC

Original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16603886

Re: Spotifyd

#3

Post by bentt » Mon, Dec 19, 2022, 7:54 PM UTC

I thought this died with Spotify’s nerfing/killing of API access. I had a project going with Mopidy which relied on it that I just dusted off the other night after a year and it wouldn’t authenticate. Kept saying “requires Premium account” despite my account being Premium.

Re: Spotifyd

#4

Post by MrGilbert » Mon, Dec 19, 2022, 7:56 PM UTC

I‘m kind of amazed that this is still working. I would have thought that Spotify is rather strict with their eco system.

I was always interested in their techstack, and how everything works on their end, but unfortunately I'm not into Java, which is the reason I never applied for a job there.

Re: Spotifyd

#5

Post by Daunk » Mon, Dec 19, 2022, 8:01 PM UTC

Has anyone ever gotten this to work?

I must have tried it a dozen times by now, but never once gotten it to work.

Re: Spotifyd

#6

Post by vehemenz » Mon, Dec 19, 2022, 8:06 PM UTC

Daunk wrote: post #5

Has anyone ever gotten this to work? I must have tried it a dozen times by now, but never once gotten it to work.

Yep. I just installed it on macOS via Homebrew. Took about 5 minutes to get set up.

Re: Spotifyd

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Post by dropofwill » Mon, Dec 19, 2022, 8:07 PM UTC

bentt wrote: post #3

I thought this died with Spotify’s nerfing/killing of API access. I had a project going with Mopidy which relied on it that I just dusted off the other night after a year and it wouldn’t authenticate. Kept saying “requires Premium account” despite my account being Premium.

This uses librespot, not the original library that Spotify published and recently killed. Mopidy is also moving to librespot, but it's complicated with their gstreamer architecture (though I believe its mostly functional at this point).

Re: Spotifyd

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Post by kitsunesoba » Mon, Dec 19, 2022, 8:17 PM UTC

I'm glad this exists, but it's unfortunate that the reverse-engineered librespot that this depends on is necessary, thanks to Spotify backpedaling on their promises of a streaming-capable replacement for libspotify.

Re: Spotifyd

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Dec 19, 2022, 8:20 PM UTC

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Re: Spotifyd

#10

Post by jez » Mon, Dec 19, 2022, 8:24 PM UTC

In the past, another tool I’ve used is this bash script that interacts with Spotify over dbus:

https://gist.github.com/wandernauta/6800547

It’s nowhere near a fully featured Spotify client, but for little scripts or UI things where I just want to see the current song it’s pretty lightweight and already works with the Spotify app I have installed (obviously this means it has a different end goal in mind than Spotifyd).