Mopidy-Spotify 1.0.1

Mopidy extension for playing music from Spotify

Mopidy extension for playing music from Spotify.

Dependencies

• A Spotify Premium subscription. Mopidy-Spotify will not work with Spotify Free or Spotify Unlimited, just Spotify Premium.

• libspotify >= 12, < 13. The official C library from the Spotify developer site. The package is available as libspotify12 from apt.mopidy.com.

• pyspotify >= 1.9, < 2. The libspotify python wrapper. The package is available as python-spotify from apt.mopidy.com or pyspotify on PyPI.

• Mopidy >= 0.16. The music server that Mopidy-Spotify extends.

If you install Mopidy-Spotify from apt.mopidy.com, these dependencies are installed automatically.

Installation

Install by running:

pip install Mopidy-Spotify

Or, if available, install the Debian/Ubuntu package from apt.mopidy.com.

Configuration

Before starting Mopidy, you must add your Spotify Premium username and password to your Mopidy configuration file:

[spotify]
username = alice
password = secret

The following configuration values are available:

• spotify/enabled: If the Spotify extension should be enabled or not.

• spotify/username: Your Spotify Premium username.

• spotify/password: Your Spotify Premium password.

• spotify/bitrate: Audio bitrate in kbps. 96, 160 or 320. Defaults to 160.

• spotify/timeout: Seconds before giving up waiting for search results, etc. Defaults to 10 seconds.

• spotify/cache_dir: The dir where the Spotify extension caches data. Defaults to $XDG_CACHE_DIR/mopidy/spotify, which usually means ~/.cache/mopidy/spotify.

Project resources

• Source code

• Issue tracker

• Download development snapshot

Changelog

v1.0.1 (2013-10-28)

• Support searches from Mopidy that are using the albumartist field type, added in Mopidy 0.16.

• Ignore the track_no field in search queries, added in Mopidy 0.16.

• Abort Spotify searches immediately if the search query is empty instead of waiting for the 10s timeout before returning an empty search result.

v1.0.0 (2013-10-08)

• Moved extension out of the main Mopidy project.