Spotify

Skill

Install the regular Spotify skill from the skill marketplace (or get it from ​https://github.com/forslund/spotify-skill)

raspotify

To have a local spotify device on the Mark II install raspotify

• sudo apt-get install raspotify

make raspotify use pulseaudio

raspotify can not use pulseaudio by default as it does not have a pulseaudio audio device module. To make it work with pulseaudio it has to be run as a user service and not a system service. See ​https://github.com/dtcooper/raspotify/issues/78 for details. Disable the system service:

• sudo systemctl disable raspotify

Create a user service file:

• nano ~/.config/systemd/user/myraspotify.service

  [Unit]
  Description=myraspotify
  After=network.target
  
  [Service]
  Restart=always
  RestartSec=10
  PermissionsStartOnly=true
  Environment="DEVICE_NAME=raspotify (%H)"
  Environment="BITRATE=160"
  Environment="CACHE_ARGS=--disable-audio-cache"
  Environment="VOLUME_ARGS=--enable-volume-normalisation --linear-volume --initial-volume=100"
  Environment="BACKEND_ARGS=--backend alsa"
  EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/raspotify
  ExecStart=/usr/bin/librespot --name ${DEVICE_NAME} $BACKEND_ARGS --bitrate ${BITRATE} $CACHE_ARGS $VOLUME_ARGS $OPTIONS
  
  [Install]
  WantedBy=default.target
  

Enable and start service:

• systemctl --user daemon-reload
• systemctl --user enable myraspotify
• systemctl --user start myraspotify