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# Spotifyd
An open source Spotify client running as a UNIX daemon. Spotifyd is more
lightweight than the official client, and is available on more platforms.
An open source Spotify client running as a UNIX daemon. Spotifyd streams music
just like the official client, but is more lightweight, and supports more
platforms. Spotifyd also supports the Spotify Connect protocol, which makes it
show up as a device that can be controlled from the official clients.

Spotifyd requires a Spotify Premium account.

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controlled from the official Spotify client on Android/iOS/Desktop.

For a more lightweight, and scriptable alternative, there is
[spotifyd-http](https://github.com/Spotifyd/spotifyd-http), which is a work in
progress but already supports basic tasks.
the [Spotify Connect
API](https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/web-api-connect-endpoint-reference/).

## D-Bus MPRIS
Spotifyd implements [D-Bus
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systemd-based systems. The file `contrib/spotifyd.service` should be copied to
either:

cd /etc/systemd/user/
cd ~/.config/systemd/user/
/etc/systemd/user/
~/.config/systemd/user/

Packagers of systemd-based distributions are encouraged to include the file in
the former location. End-user should prefer the latter.
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