A spotify console app

Important notice: libspotify is no longer available for download. If you have installed, then sconsify should be working. Unfortunately, we don't know for how long.
A very early stage of a spotify console application.
Requirements: Libspotify SDK & PortAudio & Spotify user subscribed to the Premium tier of the Spotify Service (Libspotify SDK terms of use).
Installation
Archlinux
$ pacman -S portaudio
$ yaourt -S libspotify
Ubuntu
& debian
$ curl http://apt.mopidy.com/mopidy.gpg | sudo apt-key add - && sudo curl -o /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mopidy.list http://apt.mopidy.com/mopidy.list
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y libportaudio2 libspotify12 --no-install-recommends
Fedora Workstation
Install libspotify-devel from rpmfusion-nonfree. Install instructions
$ sudo dnf install libspotify portaudio
OSX
Install brew, the missing package manager for OS X and
$ brew tap homebrew/binary
$ brew install portaudio
Then, download libspotify
12.1.51 for Mac OS X/Darwin
Uncompress the file and copy libspotify.framework to /Library/Frameworks (optional)
$ wget https://developer.spotify.com/download/libspotify/libspotify-12.1.51-Darwin-universal.zip
$ sudo cp -R ./libspotify-12.1.51-Darwin-universal/libspotify.framework /Library/Frameworks
sconsify will load libspotify from /usr/local/opt/libspotify/lib/libspotify
. User should create a symbolic link to /usr/local/opt/libspotify/lib/libspotify
$ mkdir -p /usr/local/opt/libspotify/lib
$ ln -s /Library/Frameworks/libspotify.framework/libspotify /usr/local/opt/libspotify/lib

Modes
There are 2 modes:
Parameters
-
-username=""
: Spotify username. If not present username will be asked.
-
Password will be asked. To not be asked you can set an environment variable with your password export SCONSIFY_PASSWORD=password
. Be aware your password will be exposed as plain text.
-
-ui=true/false
: Run Sconsify with Console User Interface. If false then no User Interface will be presented and it'll only shuffle tracks.
-
-playlists=""
: Select just some playlists to play. Comma separated list.
No UI Parameters
-
-noui-repeat-on=true/false
: Play your playlist and repeat it after the last track.
-
-noui-silent=true/false
: Silent mode when no UI is used.
-
-noui-shuffle=true/false
: Shuffle tracks or follow playlist order.
UI mode keyboard
Search fields: album, artist or track
.
album:help
artist:the beatles
track:let it be
Aliases al
= album
, ar
= artist
, tr
= track
:
al:help
ar:the beatles
tr:let it be
-
s
: shuffle tracks from current playlist. Press again to go back to normal mode.
-
S
: shuffle tracks from all playlists. Press again to go back to normal mode.
-
u
: queue selected track to play next.
-
dd
: delete selected element (playlist, track) from the UI (it doesn't save the change to spotify playlist).
-
D
: delete all tracks from the queue if the focus is on the queue.
-
PageUp
PageDown
Home
End
.
-
Control C
or q
: exit.
Vi navigation style:
-
h
j
k
l
for navigation.
-
Nj
and Nk
where N is a number: repeat the command N times.
-
gg
: go to first element.
-
G
: go to last element.
-
Ngg
and NG
where N is a number: go to element at position N.
-
Temporary playlist. Type c
in the queue view, type a name and then a temporary playlist will appear containing all songs in the queue view.
No UI mode keyboard
-
>
: play next track.
-
Control C
: exit.
Interprocess commands
Sconsify starts a server for interprocess commands using sconsify -command <command>
. Available commands: replay, play_pause, next
.
i3 bindings for multimedia keys:
bindsym XF86AudioPrev exec sconsify -command replay
bindsym XF86AudioPlay exec sconsify -command play_pause
bindsym XF86AudioNext exec sconsify -command next
macOS
: create a new service in Automator
. Then pick Library > Utilities > Run Shell Script
. Drag it to the workflow. Pick no input
and then add to the script /path/to/sconsify -command replay
, save it. Go to Keyboard Shortcuts > Services
in System Settings, find the service you've just saved and type the desired shortcut. Repeat for each command (replay, play_pause, next
).
sconsifyrc
Similar to .ackrc you can define default parameters in ~/.sconsify/sconsifyrc
:
-username=your-username
-noui-silent=true
-noui-repeat-on=false
How to build
Install go (same version from Dockerfile), glide and get a Spotify application key and copy as a byte array to /sconsify/spotify/spotify_key_array.key
.
var key = []byte{
0x02, 0xA2, ...
...
0xA1}
When building for OSX you may face an issue where it doesn't get your application key. Just retry the build that eventually it will get the key.