This is based off of the example code from https://github.com/plietar/spotify-connect
If you just want to get running, you can use a pre-built chroot with the latest version installed.
curl -O http://spotify-connect-web.s3-website.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/spotify-connect-web.sh
chmod u+x spotify-connect-web.sh
# Download the current chroot (~ 180 MB)
./spotify-connect-web.sh install
# Copy your `spotify_appkey.key` into the app directory. (See below for information on how to get that file.)
sudo cp spotify_appkey.key spotify-connect-web-chroot/usr/src/app/
# Run using normal cmdline options
./spotify-connect-web.sh --username 12345678 --password xyz123 --bitrate 320
(Btw, the chroot is built nightly from master using Docker on a C1. See the Makefile for details.)
(You will have to use sudo if not logged in as root.)
- Get Docker running on your machine. (See this preliminary documentation for advice.)
- Get your
spotify_appkey.keyand put it into the base directory. (See below for details.) - Build the container via
docker build -t spotify-connect-web . - Run it via
~/run-with-docker.
Run pip install -r requirements.txt and also apt-get install python-gevent (Can't be installed from pip (on debian based systems) because of a bug) (Other distributions can just run pip install gevent)
Can either be installed via pip (requires the ALSA headers (libasound2-dev package on Debian/Ubuntu)) or the python-alsaaudio package on Debian/Ubuntu
Tested against the rocki libspotify_embedded_shared.so
usage: main.py [-h] [--device DEVICE] [--mixer MIXER] [--debug] [--key KEY]
[--username USERNAME] [--password PASSWORD] [--name NAME]
[--bitrate {90,160,320}] [--credentials CREDENTIALS]
Web interface for Spotify Connect
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--device DEVICE, -D DEVICE
alsa output device
--mixer MIXER, -m MIXER
alsa mixer name for volume control
--debug, -d enable libspotify_embedded/flask debug output
--key KEY, -k KEY path to spotify_appkey.key
--username USERNAME, -u USERNAME
your spotify username
--password PASSWORD, -p PASSWORD
your spotify password
--name NAME, -n NAME name that shows up in the spotify client
--bitrate {90,160,320}, -b {90,160,320}
Sets bitrate of audio stream (may not actually work)
--credentials CREDENTIALS, -c CREDENTIALS
File to load and save credentials from/to
libspotify_embedded_shared.so must be in the same directory as the python scripts.
Also requires a spotify premium account, and the spotify_appkey.key (the binary version) file needs to be obtained from https://developer.spotify.com/my-account/keys , and needs to placed in the python scripts directory, or have the path specified with the -k parameter
- Running without debug output
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PWD python main.py - Running with debug output
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PWD python main.py -d - Run with only flask debug output (flask debug output allows you to see the python exceptions that are thrown)
DEBUG=true LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PWD python main.py - Can also be run without the web server (Requires username and password to be passed in as parameters)
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PWD python connect.py -u username -p password
Generated with cpp spotify.h > spotify.processed.h && sed -i 's/__extension__//g' spotify.processed.h
spotify.h was taken from from https://github.com/plietar/spotify-connect
Server runs on port 4000
There's a login button on the webpage to enter a username and password, or zeroconf (avahi) login can be used after executing the command avahi-publish-service TestConnect _spotify-connect._tcp 4000 VERSION=1.0 CPath=/login/_zeroconf (avahi-publish-service is in the avahi-utils package).
After logging in successfully, a blob is sent by Spotify and saved to disk (to credentials.json by default), and is use to login automatically on next startup.