Installation

Install by running:

sudo python3 -m pip install Mopidy-Bandcamp

Authentication

If you wish to browse/play music in your collection, then you’ll need to authenticate to bandcamp.com.

Authentication is done by grabbing your identity token from the cookies of the bandcamp website. Point your browser at https://bandcamp.com and log in if you aren’t already.

For chrome you can simply go to chrome://settings/cookies/detail?site=bandcamp.com to see the cookies for bandcamp.com. Click on “identity” and copy the data listed under “Content”.

For Firefox and most other browsers, open up the browser’s developer tools (usually by pressing Ctrl-Shift-I or F12). When the tools pop up, navigate to the “Storage” tab, and then select “Cookies” to view the site’s cookies. Copy the value from the “identity” cookie.

It should look something like this:

7%09xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx%3D%09%7B%22ex%22%3Ax%2C%22id%22%3Axxxxxxxxxx%7D

Now add it to your Mopidy config file like so:

[bandcamp]
identity = 7%09xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx%3D%09%7B%22ex%22%3Ax%2C%22id%22%3Axxxxxxxxxx%7D

Usage

Albums and tracks can be searched for or browsed. Additionaly, you can force Mopidy-Bandcamp to scrape a bandcamp URL for you by just prepending the url with “bandcamp:” and adding it to Mopidy. For example, using mpc on the command line:

$ mpc add "bandcamp:https://louiezong.bandcamp.com/album/jazz"

Would add the bandcamp album to the queue.

Note: Adding an artist by clicking on the artist in a search result or by manually scraping an artist’s bandcamp page can take a long time depending on the artist. This is because Mopidy-Bandcamp tries to load the entirety of the artist’s discography.

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Configuration

example:

[bandcamp]
discover-tags = French House, Brit Pop, Tokyo, New Wave, Industrial

• identity - Identity token from your bandcamp cookies to authenticate with Bandcamp.

• collection_items - Number of items (per page) to fetch from your collection (if authenticated). Default: 50

• discover_tags - List of tags to discover. You’ll really want to change this to any tags that interest you.

• discover_genres - List of bandcamp’s genres to discover. You’ll only want to edit this to remove unwanted genres.

• discover_pages - Number of pages to load in the browse discover sections. Default: 1

• image_sizes - a list of ids for image sizes to return to mopidy for album art. Default: 10, 5, 2 (1200x1200, 700x700, 350x350)

Bandcamp image size ids:

Project resources

• Source code

• Issue tracker