garo/remote-spotify repository overview

⁠remote-spotify

This container allows you to run spotify on a server and control it from external clients.

It makes spotify-connect unnecessary, without making it impossible. It can solve the following problems:

• You don't want to install a full spotify on clients just to play music on another device. Be warned: You will need to install xpra on those clients. This is a really light package available on pretty much all distributions.
• You want to stop and start spotify without having physical access to the server.
• You are afraid spotify-connect will become a feature only available for premium users.

⁠Remote Usage

Suppose you want to run spotify on a server called 'spot' listening on tcp/12345 for clients that want to control it:

• Run the container :

docker run -d --device /dev/snd:/dev/snd -p 12345:10000 \
-v /dev/shm:/dev/shm --name remote-spotify garo/remote-spotify

• Wait a couple of seconds for everything to start...

• You can now use xpra on a client to connect to it with: xpra attach tcp:spot:12345

Spotify will be visible on the client, but all audio will played on the server.

• If you detach the xpra connection from the client spotify will continue to play.
• Closing spotify will also stop the container.

The environment variable XPRA_PORT is 10000 by default but can be changed to make xpra listen to another port.

⁠Regular (local) usage

You can also use this to run spotify locally in a container:

docker run -d --net host -e DISPLAY=$DISPLAY --device /dev/snd \
-v /dev/shm:/dev/shm -v $HOME/.Xauthority:/root/.Xauthority \
--name local-spotify garo/remote-spotify spotify

⁠Development

Want to improve this (bugfixes, extra features, ...) ?

Fork this repository on GitHub instead of cloning it, I and other users might be interested in your changes !