Raspotify

This software is a Spotify Connect receiver. It is meant for a “headless” Linux system, meaning no keyboard/mouse/monitor attached. You need a Spotify Premium account to use this.

Website of the software: https://github.com/dtcooper/raspotify

What you can do in practice:

• You can run the Spotify app on e.g. your TV, laptop or phone
• Connect to the Raspberry Pi as playback device in the app
• Your Raspberry Pi streams music directly from Spotify (as requested via the app)

sudo apt-get -y install curl
curl -sL https://dtcooper.github.io/raspotify/install.sh | sh

This executes an installation script that also adds a Debian package repository for the software. That way you can update it with apt afterwards. (See also Linux: software packages.)

In my use case I don't want Raspotify to directly output the audio to a playback device. Instead I want to connect it to an ALSA loopback device. See page Linux: audio about what it is.

This allows me to select either the music from Spotify or my TV as input in CamillaDSP. With the configuration below I can use dsnoop:Loopback,1,0 to get the sound from Raspotify. The sound from Raspotify is always 16 bit (format S16LE) with sample rate 44.1 kHz.

Edit the following lines in /etc/raspotify/conf:

BITRATE=320                               # Highest possible quality
LIBRESPOT_ENABLE_VOLUME_NORMALISATION=off # Set to your preference
LIBRESPOT_NAME="Raspberry Pi Jarkko"      # Change to what you want
LIBRESPOT_DEVICE="hw:Loopback,0,0"        # Send audio to ALSA loopback

Then restart the Raspotify service:

sudo systemctl restart raspotify