A spotify console app

A very early stage of a spotify console application.

Requirements: Libspotify SDK & PortAudio.

Installation

• Download current version 0.2.1

• Install dependencies:

Archlinux

$ pacman -S portaudio
$ yaourt -S libspotify

Ubuntu & debian

$ curl http://apt.mopidy.com/mopidy.gpg | apt-key add - && curl -o /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mopidy.list http://apt.mopidy.com/mopidy.list
$ apt-get update && apt-get install -y libportaudio2 libspotify12 --no-install-recommends 

OSX

Install brew, the missing package manager for OS X and

$ brew tap homebrew/binary
$ brew install portaudio
$ brew install libspotify
$ cd /usr/local/opt/libspotify/lib/
$ ln -s libspotify.dylib libspotify

• Run ./sconsify

Modes

There are 2 modes:

• Console user interface mode: it presents a text user interface with playlists and tracks.

• No user interface mode: it doesn't present user interface and just suffle tracks.

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

• ← ↓ ↑ → for navigation.

• space or enter: play selected track.

• >: play next track.

• p: pause.

• /: open a search field.

• 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.

• d: delete selected track from the queue or delete selected search.

• 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.

No UI mode keyboard

• >: play next track.

• Control C: exit.

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 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}

• glide install

• make build

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.