Raspotify – Turn your pi into a Spotify server

As some of you know I really like to use a raspberry pi as music server. Therefore I want to introduce a nice tool: Raspotify. This little program turns your raspberry pi into a Spotify server as you might also get it when listening on your computer or on other systems like Sonos. The really cool thing is: it just works out of the box and you can use your phone as a remote control. I actually prefer it right now over the usage of Mopidy-Spotify, which has some problems since Spotify is blocking the API more and more. For instance, it is not possible anymore to load playlists.

I do not know if this will improve in the future or if Spotify nudges us to use their service. I would prefer to have a system working directly together with mopidy, still bundles everything, but we will see.

The installation procedure of Raspotify is actually as easy as it can get: you only need to type one command and it does everything. But pay attention to change the settings (in the paragraph Configuration at the page) to get higher quality playback.