Configuration

Raspotify works out of the box and should be discoverable by Spotify Connect on your local network, however you can configure it by editing Raspotify's config file. which passes arguments to librespot. See the librespot wiki for details and the Troubleshooting section of this wiki for troubleshooting and audio setup tips.

# /etc/raspotify/conf -- Arguments/configuration for librespot

# A non-exhaustive list of librespot options and flags.

# Please see https://github.com/dtcooper/raspotify/wiki &
# https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot/wiki/Options
# for configuration details and a full list of options and flags.

# You can also find a full list with `librespot -h`.

# To avoid name collisions environment variables must be prepended with
# `LIBRESPOT_`, so option/flag `foo-bar` becomes `LIBRESPOT_FOO_BAR`.

# Invalid environment variables will be ignored.

# Raspotify defaults may vary from librespot defaults.
# Commenting out the environment variable will fallback to librespot's default
# unless otherwise noted.

# Flags are either on (uncommented) or off (commented),
# their values are otherwise not evaluated (but the "=" is still needed).

# Only log warning and error messages.
LIBRESPOT_QUIET=

# Automatically play similar songs when your music ends.
LIBRESPOT_AUTOPLAY=

# Disable caching of the audio data.
# Enabling audio data caching can take up a lot of space
# if you don't limit the cache size with LIBRESPOT_CACHE_SIZE_LIMIT.
# It can also wear out your Micro SD card. You have been warned. 
LIBRESPOT_DISABLE_AUDIO_CACHE=

# Disable caching of credentials.
# Caching of credentials is not necessary so long as
# LIBRESPOT_DISABLE_DISCOVERY is not set.
LIBRESPOT_DISABLE_CREDENTIAL_CACHE=

# Play all tracks at approximately the same apparent volume.
LIBRESPOT_ENABLE_VOLUME_NORMALISATION=

# Enable verbose log output.
#LIBRESPOT_VERBOSE=

# Disable zeroconf discovery mode.
#LIBRESPOT_DISABLE_DISCOVERY=

# Options will fallback to their defaults if commented out,
# otherwise they must have a valid value.

# Device name.
# Raspotify defaults to "raspotify (*hostname)".
# Librespot defaults to "Librespot".
#LIBRESPOT_NAME="Librespot"

# Bitrate (kbps) {96|160|320}. Defaults to 160.
#LIBRESPOT_BITRATE="160"

# Output format {F64|F32|S32|S24|S24_3|S16}. Defaults to S16.
#LIBRESPOT_FORMAT="S16"

# Displayed device type. Defaults to speaker.
#LIBRESPOT_DEVICE_TYPE="speaker"

# Limits the size of the cache for audio files.
# It's possible to use suffixes like K, M or G, e.g. 16G for example.
# Highly advised if audio caching isn't disabled. Otherwise the cache
# size is only limited by disk space.
#LIBRESPOT_CACHE_SIZE_LIMIT=""

# Audio backend to use, alsa or pulseaudio. Defaults to alsa.
#LIBRESPOT_BACKEND="alsa"

# Username used to sign in with.
# Credentials are not required if LIBRESPOT_DISABLE_DISCOVERY is not set.
#LIBRESPOT_USERNAME=""

# Password used to sign in with.
#LIBRESPOT_PASSWORD=""

# Audio device to use, use `librespot --device ?` to list options.
# Defaults to the system's default.
#LIBRESPOT_DEVICE="default"

# Initial volume in % from 0 - 100.
# Defaults to 50 For the alsa mixer: the current volume.
#LIBRESPOT_INITIAL_VOLUME="50"

# Volume control scale type {cubic|fixed|linear|log}.
# Defaults to log.
#LIBRESPOT_VOLUME_CTRL="log"

# Range of the volume control (dB) from 0.0 to 100.0.
# Default for softvol: 60.0.
# For the alsa mixer: what the control supports.
#LIBRESPOT_VOLUME_RANGE="60.0"

# Pregain (dB) applied by volume normalisation from -10.0 to 10.0.
# Defaults to 0.0.
#LIBRESPOT_NORMALISATION_PREGAIN="0.0"

# Threshold (dBFS) at which point the dynamic limiter engages
# to prevent clipping from 0.0 to -10.0.
# Defaults to -2.0.
#LIBRESPOT_NORMALISATION_THRESHOLD="-2.0"

# The port the internal server advertises over zeroconf 1 - 65535.
# Ports <= 1024 may require root privileges.
#LIBRESPOT_ZEROCONF_PORT=""

# HTTP proxy to use when connecting.
#LIBRESPOT_PROXY=""

# ### This is NOT a librespot option or flag. ###
# This modifies the behavior of the Raspotify service.
# If you have issues with this option DO NOT file a bug with librespot.
# 
# By default librespot "download buffers" tracks, meaning that it downloads
# the tracks to disk and plays them from the disk and then deletes them when
# the track is over. This practice is very common, many other audio frameworks
# and players do the exact same thing as a disk based tmp cache is easy to use
# and very resilient. That being said there may be cases where a user may want
# to minimize disk read/writes.
#
# Commenting this out will cause librespot to use a tmpfs so that provided there
# is enough RAM to hold the track nothing is written to disk but instead to a tmpfs.
# See https://github.com/dtcooper/raspotify/discussions/567
# And https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/tmpfs.html
TMPDIR=/tmp

After editing restart the daemon by running: sudo systemctl restart raspotify

Please see the Configuration Migration Page to learn how to migrate your setting to version 0.31.4+ if upgrading from an older release.