Despot

A Redis-backed Spotify jukebox, in pure C. Bring tyranny to your office stereo.

Dependencies

• OpenAL
• Hiredis
• libspotify (tested on v10)

Despot should build on any POSIX-compliant system supported by libspotify. Sorry, Windows.

Despot expects to find libspotify in the lib subdirectory. You can get a copy for your operating system from developer.spotify.com.

You'll also need to put a copy of api.h in include/libspotify. This file ships with the libspotify distribution.

Licensing prohibits distributing these files with Despot, sorry.

Install

Despot has been built and tested on:

• Mac OS X 10.7
• Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Configuring your API key

Save a 'c-code' API key from developer.spotify.com into key.h in the project root directory. (It should compile fine as-is, but you really only need the g_appkey variable. You can delete the #include lines and g_appkey_size.)

Building Despot

make

Usage

Despot and despot-web are like Bonnie and Clyde. If you are looking for a despot frontend, you really ought to try despot-web.

Redis Interface

Despot talks to you via Redis:

• despot:now_playing: the current track's Spotify URL
• despot:queue: the playlist; despot reads the next track using BLPOP
• despot:commands: the command queue; see Commands

Commands

Despot currently supports two commands. You can issue them by pushing them onto the despot:commands list.

• NEXT: skip to the next track
• VOLUME [0-100]: set the volume

License

The MIT License

Copyright (c) Paul Rosania, http://paul.rosania.org

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.