Spotify
Daemons
spotifyd
Spotifyd will only work with Spotify Premium
Config: ~/.config/spotifyd/spotifyd.conf
Build:
cd ~/projects/audio/spotify/spotifyd
cargo build --release --features "pulseaudio_backend"
Clients
Arch Wiki: third party clients
spotify-tui
- Client for i.e. spotifyd
- Outdated
- GitHub
- Limitations:
If you want to play tracks, Spotify requires that you have a Premium account.
- Config:
~/.config/spotify-tui/client.yml
spotify-qt
Etc
- spotify-backup saves a raw JSON list of all your saved tracks
- rofi-spotify python program to interact with Spotify via rofi
Downloaders
DownOnSpot
- Update: Shut down due to a cease and desist letter from Spotify.
- GitHub
- Used librespot
- Config at
~/.config/down_on_spot/settings.json
Note: librespot only works with Spotify Premium. This will remain the case. We will not support any features to make librespot compatible with free accounts, such as limited skips and adverts.
Setup:
- Create a new application on the Spotify developer dashboard
Clone:
git clone https://github.com/oSumAtrIX/DownOnSpot ~/projects/audio/spotify/DownOnSpot
sudo apt install libmp3lame-dev
cd ~/projects/audio/spotify/DownOnSpot
Edit Cargo.toml according to DownOnSpot#building,
then:
cargo build --release
ln -s ~/projects/audio/spotify/DownOnSpot/target/release/down_on_spot ~/bin/build/down_on_spot
Config
- Config:
~/.config/down_on_spot/settings.json
- Download dir:
~/down_on_spot
Variables example:
%0disc%:01%0track%:04%album%:Soundtrack of Movie XYZ%albumArtist%:Various Artists%albumArtists%:Various Artists%artist%:Some artist%disc%:1%id%: ?%title%:Title%track%:4
Examples of files created by following template:
%albumArtist% - %albumArtist% - %album% - %artist% - %disc% - %id% - %0track% - %title%
./Various Artists - Various Artists - Dein Song 2024 - Shayla Jolie -
1 - 0YmfW205qCCXmMf0DP8e4i - 03 - Let You Go - Final Version.mp3
./LINA - LINA - Official - LINA - 1 - 5SdlE4nVM3zXmV3B5mMbxc - 08 - Idiot.mp3
Usage
down_on_spot 'spotify:album:<SPOTIFY_ID>'
down_on_spot 'SPOTIFY_URL'
Issues
- Doesn't well support support playlists
- Doesn't support release year template variable
spotify-dl
spotify-dl doesn't download anything from Spotify. It picks up the metadata from Spotify API and then uses yt-dlp to download the song.
From this comment:
I tried spotify_dl without success. Downloading is working well, but the content is not what I initially selected. I loaded some audiobooks and the title/story was the same, but different version / reader. I then tried to load a single track, and it doesn't load the exact content but is just looking for the same title...
Stale: spotify-downloader
cmd: spotdl