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librespot
librespot is an open source client library for Spotify. It enables applications to use Spotify's service, without using the official but closed-source libspotify. Additionally, it provides extra features which are not available in the official library.
Status
librespot is currently under development and is not fully functional yet. You are however welcome to experiment with it.
Building
Building librespot requires rust nightly. It will not work on rust stable or beta.
You will also need the protobuf compiler, and the
rust-protobuf plugin.
protoc-gen-rust must be in your $PATH.
Also required is an installation of portaudio, which
can be installed via brew install portaudio for an OS X machine.
Once you've cloned this repository you can build librespot using cargo.
cargo build
Usage
A sample program implementing a headless Spotify Connect receiver is provided. Once you've built librespot, run it using :
target/debug/main -a APPKEY -u USERNAME -c CACHEDIR -n DEVICENAME
where APPKEY is the path to a Spotify application key file, USERNAME is your
Spotify username, CACHEDIR is the path to directory where data will be cached,
and DEVICENAME is the name that will appear in the Spotify Connect menu.
Troubleshooting
If you connect using a facebook account, librespot will not show up among the devices in the Spotify app. What you need to do is apply for a device password and use that to sign in instead.
Disclaimer
Using this code to connect to Spotify's API is probably forbidden by them, and might result in you application key getting banned. Use at you own risk
Contact
Come and hang out on gitter if you need help or want to offer some. https://gitter.im/sashahilton00/spotify-connect-resources
License
Everything in this repository is licensed under the MIT license.