install_spotifyd.md

Install spotifyd as daemon on Rasbian

• Create a new user:
  sudo adduser --no-create-home --disabled-login --system --group spotifyd

• Allow audio access:
  sudo usermod -a -G audio spotifyd

• Get the spotifyd.
  Either the binary or build it yourself.

• Put the spotifyd binary in place: sudo mv spotifyd /opt/bin/.
  Adjust permissions: sudo chown -R spotifyd:spotifyd /opt/bin && sudo chmod 755 /opt/bin/spotifyd

• Adjust your settings in spotifyd.conf.

• Get your settings in place:
  sudo cp spotifyd.conf /etc/
  Adjust permissions: sudo chown spotifyd:spotifyd && sudo chmod 700 /etc/spotifyd.conf.
  It's not to cool to store the credentials in that file but that's the way it is, when you don't want to start the daemon manually...

• Setup the init.d script:
  sudo cp spotifyd /etc/init.d/
  Adjust permissions: sudo chown root:root /etc/init.d/spotifyd && sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/spotifyd

• Install with sudo update-rc.d spotifyd defaults

• Move all spotifyd log messages to its own file:
   cp spotifyd_rsyslog.conf /etc/rsyslog.d/spotifyd.conf

• Start with sudo service spotifyd start

rsyslogd_spotifyd.conf

# Move spotifyd log to it's own logfile

# $syslogseverity == 7 is DEBUG, we don't want this

if tolower($programname) == "spotifyd" \
   and $syslogseverity < 7 \
   and not ($msg == "Load Done" or $msg startswith "Loading track " ) \
then /var/log/spotifyd.log

spotifyd

#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          spotifyd
# Required-Start:    $local_fs $network $named $time $syslog alsa-utils
# Required-Stop:     $local_fs $network $named $time $syslog alsa-utils
# Should-Start:      avahi avahi-daemon
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Spotify Connect Daemon
# Description:       Start Spotify Connect Daemon on boot.
### END INIT INFO

set -e

NAME="spotifyd"

PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid

DAEMON="/opt/bin/$NAME"
DAEMON_PARAMETER="--pid /var/run/$NAME.pid"
RUNAS=$NAME


# Gracefully exit if the package has been removed.
test -x $DAEMON || exit 0


# remove pid file if it's empty or the process is not running anymore
if [ -f "$PIDFILE" ]; then
  if [ -s "$PIDFILE" ] || ! kill -0 $(cat "$PIDFILE"); then
    rm -f "$PIDFILE"
  fi
fi


start() {
  echo -n "Starting $NAME..."
  touch "$PIDFILE"
  chown $RUNAS:$RUNAS "$PIDFILE"
  start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --chuid $RUNAS --exec "$DAEMON" -- $DAEMON_PARAMETER
  echo " Done!"
}


stop() {
  echo -n "Stopping $NAME..."
  start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --retry 30/TERM/forever/KILL --oknodo --user $RUNAS
  echo " Done!"
}


restart() {
  echo "Restarting $NAME..."
  stop
  start
  echo "$NAME restarted!"
}


uninstall() {
  read -r -p "Are you sure you want to remove $NAME? This cannot be undone. [yes|NO] " response
  case "$response" in
    [yY][eE][sS]|[yY])
        stop
        rm -f "$PIDFILE"
        # echo "Notice: The log file is not removed: '$LOGFILE'"
        update-rc.d -f $NAME remove
        rm -fv "$0"
        ;;
    *)
      exit 3
      ;;
  esac
}


case "$1" in
  start)
    start
    ;;
  stop)
    stop
    ;;
  uninstall)
    uninstall
    ;;
  restart)
    restart
    ;;
  *)
    echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status|uninstall}"
esac

spotifyd.conf

    [global]
    username = 
    password = 
    backend = alsa
    device_name = Spotify on Raspi
    bitrate = 320