Spotify App Raspberry Pi

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The Raspberry Pi has been very popular as a streaming music player. Sure, the only audio out option on the board is an analog stereo jack, but you can use a USB audio device to improve upon that if you wish. [Wouter van Wijk] wanted to use his RPi as a Spotify server. It’s a bit tricky to get everything configured for this, so he decided to give back by publishing a ready to use Spotify server image for the Raspberry Pi.

Raspberry Pi Spotify Player

The project is call the Pi MusicBox. Like some of the RPi Pandora setups we’ve seen he included the ability to use the hardware as an AirPlay device too. To connect to the Spotify service he uses the Mopidy package. It can also play tracks from local storage (including the home network). It’s even capable of mixing the two sources in the same queue. Possibly the best part is that it can be controlled with any Music Player Daemon (MPD) client like the smart phone screenshots seen above.

If you’re interested, check out his GitHub repo for the project.

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Connecting to Spotify’s API

spotify-tui needs to connect to Spotify’s API in order to find music byname, play tracks etc.

Instructions on how to set this up will be shown when you first run the app.

But here they are again:

Spotify
  1. Go to the Spotify dashboard https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard/applications
  2. Click Create a Client ID and create an app
  3. Now click Edit Settings
  4. Add http://localhost:8888/callback to the Redirect URIs - you don't need anything running on localhost, it will still work
  5. You are now ready to authenticate with Spotify!
  6. Go back to the terminal
  7. Run spt
  8. Enter your Client ID
  9. Enter your Client Secret
  10. You will be redirected to an official Spotify webpage to ask you for permissions.
  11. After accepting the permissions, you'll be redirected to localhost (blank webpage, might say something like 'Connection Refused' since no server is running), copy the URL and paste into the prompt in the terminal.
Spotify app raspberry pi

And now you are ready to use the spotify-tui 🎉

You can edit the config at anytime at ${HOME}/snap/spt/current/.config/spotify-tui/client.yml.

Usage

Raspberry Pi Spotify Box

The binary is named spt.

Raspberry Pi Music Player App

When running spotify-tui press ? to bring up a help menu that shows currently implemented key events and their actions.

Raspberry Pi Spotify Touch Screen

Limitations

This app uses the Web API from Spotify, which doesn't handle streaming itself. So you'll need either an official Spotify client open or a lighter weight alternative such as spotifyd - https://github.com/Spotifyd/spotifyd

If you want to play tracks, Spotify requires that you have a Premium account.

Spotify App Raspberry Pi

Built with ♥️ from the Spotify TUI upstream source at https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui