This is based off of the example code from https://github.com/plietar/spotify-connect
This is a version of spotify-connect-web with all dependencies bundled (about 7MB compressed, 13MB extracted)
For armv7+ (Rpi 2, Rpi 3, etc, but not Rpi 1/Rpi Zero) devices only for now
Grab the latest release from Releases
wget https://github.com/Fornoth/spotify-connect-web/releases/download/0.0.3-alpha/spotify-connect-web_0.0.3-alpha.tar.gz
tar zxvf spotify-connect-web_0.0.3-alpha.tar.gz
A spotify-connect-web directory will be created, and you'll need to put your spotify_appkey.key in that directory
Just run ./spotify-connect-web in the extracted directory
Supports the same options as the regular version
Grab the latest release from Releases
If you just want to get running, you can use a pre-built chroot with the latest version installed.
curl -O curl -OL https://github.com/Fornoth/spotify-connect-web/releases/download/0.0.3-alpha/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. Manually built for now. 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.
Requires development packages for Python, FFI, and Alsa
- For Debian/Ubuntu:
apt-get install python-dev libffi-dev libasound2-dev
To install the other requirements: pip install -r requirements.txt
usage: main.py [-h] [--device DEVICE | --playback_device PLAYBACK_DEVICE]
[--mixer_device_index MIXER_DEVICE_INDEX] [--mixer MIXER]
[--dbrange DBRANGE] [--cors CORS] [--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 (deprecated, use --playback_device)
--playback_device PLAYBACK_DEVICE, -o PLAYBACK_DEVICE
alsa output device (get name from aplay -L)
--mixer_device_index MIXER_DEVICE_INDEX
alsa card index of the mixer device
--mixer MIXER, -m MIXER
alsa mixer name for volume control
--dbrange DBRANGE, -r DBRANGE
alsa mixer volume range in Db
--lastfm_username LASTFM_USERNAME
your Last.fm username
--lastfm_password LASTFM_PASSWORD
your Last.fm password
--lastfm_api_key LASTFM_API_KEY
your Last.fm API key
--lastfm_api_secret LASTFM_API_SECRET
your Last.fm API secret
--lastfm_credentials LASTFM_CREDENTIALS
file to load Last.fm credentials from
--cors CORS enable CORS support for this host (for the web api).
Must be in the format <protocol>://<hostname>:<port>.
Port can be excluded if its 80 (http) or 443 (https).
Can be specified multiple times
--debug, -d enable libspotify_embedded/flask debug output
--key KEY, -k KEY path to spotify_appkey.key (can be obtained from
https://developer.spotify.com/my-account/keys )
--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
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.
There's a login button on the webpage to enter a username and password, or you can pass the --username and --password arguments
If you want to enable Last.fm scrobbling, you should first obtain API key at http://www.last.fm/api/account/create. You can pass your --lastfm_username, --lastfm_password, --lastfm_api_key and --lastfm_api_secret on the command line. You can also use lastfm_credentials.json and pass --lastfm_credentials lastfm_credentials.json to the command line. You can find an example of the file format in lastfm_credentials.json.dist. You need to explicitly pass the credentials file, otherwise the Last.fm module will not launch.
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).
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