Spotify Connect Web

This is based on the implementation of Fornoth from https://github.com/Fornoth/spotify-connect-web modified so it uses the pyspotify-connect wrapper.

Installation

Copy libspotify_embedded_shared.so to \usr\lib. Run pip install -r requirements.txt.

Pyalsaaudio

Can either be installed via pip (requires the ALSA headers (libasound2-dev package on Debian/Ubuntu)) or the python-alsaaudio package on Debian/Ubuntu.

Usage

Tested against the rocki libspotify_embedded_shared.so

usage: main.py [-h] [--debug] [--key KEY] [--username USERNAME]
               [--password PASSWORD] [--name NAME] [--bitrate {90,160,320}]
               [--credentials CREDENTIALS] [--device DEVICE] [--mixer MIXER]
               [--volmin {0-99}] [--volmax {1-100}]

Web interface for Spotify Connect

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --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 alsa_sink stream (may not actually
                        work)
  --credentials CREDENTIALS, -c CREDENTIALS
                        File to load and save credentials from/to
  --device DEVICE, -D DEVICE
                        alsa output device
  --mixer MIXER, -m MIXER
                        alsa mixer name for volume control
  --volmin {0-99}, -v {0-99}
                        minimum mixer volume (percentage)
  --volmax {1-100}, -V {1-100}
                        maximum mixer volume (percentage)

The program 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.

###Device parameter

The alsa output device name should be as returned by the pyalsaaudio command pcms. In order to check the possible valid options please execute:

import alsaaudio
alsaaudio.pcms()

Launching

• Running with debug output python main.py -d
• Can also be run without the web server (Requires username and password to be passed in as parameters or enable zeroconf) python connect_console.py

Headers

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

Web server

Server runs on port 4000

Logging in

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).

If you want to execute the above command as a service do the following:

cp ./daemons/avahi_service/spotifyconnect.service to /etc/avahi/services/spotifyconnect.service

It will start to be working as soon the file is copied, there's no need to restart.

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.

Daemons

If you want to always run on startup follow this steps (for Raspeberry 1 with armel on chroot):

cp ./daemons/chroot_sysvinit/spotify-connect /etc/init.d/spotify-connect
chmod +x /etc/init.d/spotify-connect
update-rc.d spotify-connect defaults