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How to play your Spotify music in Winamp and get Visualizatons
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play_spotify_via_winamp.md

Spotiamp features a builtin Shoutcast® server, so you can easily stream the music to any device supporting Shoutcast, such as Sonos.

Download and install Winamp

I've installed version 5.8

https://www.winamp.com/

Download and setup Spotiamp

I used the installed ver, but it shouldn't matter if you want to use the stand-alone ver. When it prompts you to allow network access, select public and private networks so the windows firewall doesn't block your server port.

http://web.archive.org/web/20141208232737/http://spotiamp.com/

To get the Shoutcast servers's codec to work properly in Windows 10, you need to enable the codec in the registry.

  1. Open a cmd.exe window as Administrator
  2. Run the following 2 commands
reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\drivers.desc" /v "%SYSTEMROOT%\SysWOW64\l3codecp.acm" /t REG_SZ /d "Fraunhofer IIS MPEG Audio Layer-3 Codec (professional)" /f

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32" /v "msacm.l3acm" /t REG_SZ /d "%SYSTEMROOT%\SysWOW64\l3codecp.acm" /f

Now you can stream your spotify playlists via shoutcast. Just enable the Shoutcast server in the settings menu and press play in Spotiamp.

Open winamp and go to File->Open URL. The URL to play is: http://127.0.0.1:5010/play.pls. Replace 127.0.0.1 with the IP of your computer.

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