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)
Pyalsaaudio has been modified to use the same volume mapping as alsamixer. Change to the source directory cd pyalsaaudio then build python setup.py build (requires the ALSA headers (libasound2-dev package on Debian/Ubuntu)) and install python setup.py install
Tested against the rocki libspotify_embedded_shared.so
usage: main.py [-h] [--device DEVICE] [--mixer MIXER] [--volmin {0-99}]
[--volmax {1-100}] [--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
--volmin {0-99}, -v {0-99}
minimum mixer volume (percentage)
--volmax {1-100}, -V {1-100}
maximum mixer volume (percentage)
--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.