raspotify VS spotifyd

The last.fm site will work independently from airplay, so it will display whatever is playing, even if you are not using airplay to stream to your pi. Because it is just a standard Raspberry Pi OS running, you could also set it up as a MPD client https://linuxhint.com/raspberry-pi-music-station-mpd/ or https://github.com/dtcooper/raspotify. As long as you are submitting music to last.fm the song will display.

For Spotify Connect on a Pi I can recommend Raspotify:

https://github.com/dtcooper/raspotify

https://github.com/dtcooper/raspotify allows you to use Spotify connect on Raspberry Pi's, so you can manually move your music using the Spotify app.

It creates pulseaudio sinks for every dlna compatible device in the network. I then use this repo: https://github.com/dtcooper/raspotify

make sure to get a a config file going

then ran sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y and followed with the instructions from raspotify. make sure to get a a config file going I also used this troubleshooting page to tweak my pi's setting to "optimize" the audio quality as much as I could.

I don't have any control or library software built into my setup. I'm only running https://github.com/dtcooper/raspotify for Spotify Connect and https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync for AirPlay streaming, so I have no need to interact directly with the Pi during normal usage. It's all controlled from my phone or PC natively.

If you want to run Spotify on a Raspberry (or PinePhone or some other device), there’s Spot, which is great, but kinda heavy and slow. There’s Spotify-qt which is faster, requires messing with Spotify developer dashboard, and UI doesn’t fit on small screens. Spotify-qt is itself based on Spotify-tui which runs in the terminal (pretty cool IMO). And a bare client/daemon is spotifyd. So you have quite a few choices there.

Spotifyd runs on Linux, can also be recognized by Spotify app as an output requires premium, not sure about touch screen compatability

None of the maintainer staff use Windows, but a working PR that doesn’t cause any regressions would likely be accepted.

[1] https://github.com/Spotifyd/spotifyd/pull/602

Spotify https://github.com/Spotifyd/spotifyd

https://github.com/Spotifyd/spotifyd/blob/master/contrib/spotifyd.service and the service file, see how it has WantedBy=default.target under [Install]? pretty sure it starts/enables when that target is reached during the init process of the system.

Better yet would be to use spotifyd[0] for this. I tried to set this up with my RPi a while ago but was defeated by Linux audio. Instead I just bought a Sonos. Oh, well.

[0]: https://github.com/Spotifyd/spotifyd

I'm trying to cross-compile Spotifyd for a 64-bit Raspberry Pi. But whatever I try, I end up with an error at the final linking step: