Mopidy-Spotify

Mopidy extension for playing music from Spotify.

Status ⚠️

Mopidy-Spotify currently has no support for the following:

• Seeking
• Gapless playback
• Volume normalization
• Saving items to My Music (#108) - possible via web API
• Podcasts (#201) - unavailable
• Radio (#9) - unavailable
• Spotify Connect (#14) - unavailable

Working support for the following features is currently available:

• Playback
• Search
• Playlists (read-only)
• Top lists and Your Music (read-only)
• Lookup by URI

Maintainer wanted

Mopidy-Spotify is currently kept on life support by the Mopidy core developers. It is in need of a more dedicated maintainer.

If you want to be the maintainer of Mopidy-Spotify, please:

1. Make 2-3 good pull requests improving any part of the project.

2. Read and get familiar with all of the project's open issues.

3. Send a pull request removing this section and adding yourself as the "Current maintainer" in the "Credits" section below. In the pull request description, please refer to the previous pull requests and state that you've familiarized yourself with the open issues.

   As a maintainer, you'll be given push access to the repo and the authority to make releases to PyPI when you see fit.

Dependencies

• A Spotify Premium subscription. Mopidy-Spotify will not work with Spotify Free, just Spotify Premium.
• A non-Facebook Spotify username and password. If you created your account through Facebook you'll need to create a "device password" to be able to use Mopidy-Spotify. Go to http://www.spotify.com/account/set-device-password/, login with your Facebook account, and follow the instructions. However, sometimes that process can fail for users with Facebook logins, in which case you can create an app-specific password on Facebook by going to facebook.com > Settings > Security > App passwords > Generate app passwords, and generate one to use with Mopidy-Spotify.
• gst-plugins-spotify >= 0.10. The GStreamer Rust Plugin to stream Spotify audio, based on librespot. This plugin is not yet available from apt.mopidy.com and must be built from source (see below).
• Mopidy >= 3.4. The music server that Mopidy-Spotify extends.

Example build instructions for gst-plugins-spotify:

1. Install Rust:

   curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
   

2. Install the GStreamer Rust bindings dependencies:

   sudo apt install libgstreamer1.0-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev gcc pkg-config git
   

3. Download, build and install gst-plugins-spotify from source:

   git clone --depth 1 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-rs
   cd gst-plugins-rs
   cargo build --package gst-plugin-spotify --release
   sudo install -m 644 target/release/libgstspotify.so $(pkg-config --variable=pluginsdir gstreamer-1.0)/
   

4. Verify the spotify plugin is available:

   gst-inspect-1.0 spotify
   

Installation

Install by running:

sudo python3 -m pip install https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy-spotify/archive/master.zip

See https://mopidy.com/ext/spotify/ for alternative installation methods.

Configuration

Before starting Mopidy, you must add your Spotify Premium username and password to your Mopidy configuration file and also visit https://mopidy.com/ext/spotify/#authentication to authorize this extension against your Spotify account:

[spotify]
username = alice
password = secret
client_id = ... client_id value you got from mopidy.com ...
client_secret = ... client_secret value you got from mopidy.com ...

The following configuration values are available:

• spotify/enabled: If the Spotify extension should be enabled or not. Defaults to true.
• spotify/username: Your Spotify Premium username. You must provide this.
• spotify/password: Your Spotify Premium password. You must provide this.
• spotify/client_id: Your Spotify application client id. You must provide this.
• spotify/client_secret: Your Spotify application secret key. You must provide this.
• spotify/bitrate: Audio bitrate in kbps. 96, 160, or 320. Defaults to 160.
• spotify/volume_normalization: Whether volume normalization is active or not. Defaults to true.
• spotify/timeout: Seconds before giving up waiting for search results, etc. Defaults to 10.
• spotify/allow_cache: Whether to allow caching. The cache is stored in a "spotify" directory within Mopidy's core/cache_dir. Defaults to true.
• spotify/cache_size: Maximum cache size in MiB. Set to 0 for unlimited. Defaults to 8192.
• spotify/allow_playlists: Whether or not playlists should be exposed. Defaults to true.
• spotify/search_album_count: Maximum number of albums returned in search results. Number between 0 and 50. Defaults to 20.
• spotify/search_artist_count: Maximum number of artists returned in search results. Number between 0 and 50. Defaults to 10.
• spotify/search_track_count: Maximum number of tracks returned in search results. Number between 0 and 50. Defaults to 50.

Project resources

• Source code
• Issue tracker
• Changelog

Credits

• Original author: Stein Magnus Jodal
• Current maintainer: None. Maintainer wanted, see section above.
• Contributors