flaviostutz/rpi-spotify repository overview

This container runs a headless Spotify⁠ player that can be remote-controlled by any Spotify app. Audio is output to /dev/snd, so you need to make sure the docker container has access to it (see examples). This allows the host system to play back the audio using alsa⁠, pulseaudio⁠, forked-daapd⁠ (to Airplay), snapserver⁠, etc.

This requires a Spotify premium account, but does not require a Spotify developer key or libspotify binary.

The process run is librespot⁠, an open source client library for Spotify. This docker container image leverages the work from David Cooper⁠.

Dockerhub⁠:

⁠Prerequisites

• A Raspberry Pi (tested on RPi2/3)
• Docker
• docker-compose

⁠Usage

• Create file docker-compose.yml

version: "3.7"
services:
  rpi-spotify:
    image: flaviostutz/rpi-spotify
    network: host
    restart: always
    environment:
      - SPOTIFY_NAME=MySpeaker
      - DEVICE_NAME=/dev/snd  

• Run docker-compose up -d

• Open Spotify App and click on a speaker icon (Connect to a device)

• If you are on the same network as this container, select the speaker "MySpeaker"

• Enjoy!

⁠ENVs

• SPOTIFY_NAME: Specifies the name of this speaker (shown in Spotify client)
• DEVICE_NAME: Output io device to which the sound will be output. Defaults to "/dev/snd"

⁠Development

Auto build doesn't work on Docker Hub because it is a cross compilation on RPI. You have to build the image locally and push it manually

docker-compose build
docker login 
docker push flaviostutz/rpi-spotify

⁠Screenshots