connectr connectr connectr is a Rust library and systray/menubar application for controlling and monitoring Spotify Connect devices.
Note: Spotify Premium is required to create an application. You must have Premium to use connectr.
As an application, connectr provides a minimal "systray" application to observe the currently playing track, control Spotify playback, switch playback devices, and start preset playlists. The goal is very low memory usage, so the basic Spotify functionality can always be available without keeping the massive Spotify desktop application resident in memory.
As a library, connectr exposes the official Spotify 'Player' Web API for controlling Spotify Connect devices.
Note: connectr is not an audio playback tool; it's just a remote control. Spotify has not publicly released a library for implementing audio playback with Spotify Connect support. There's a reverse engineering effort, coincidentally also in Rust, at librespot.
Beta / Hobby / Experimental
Sloppy; this is my first Rust.
The underlying library should be fully cross-platform, though I'm only testing x86_64 Windows and OS X.
Web API Library: Fully functional and pretty stable for the requirements of the connectr menu bar app. Error handling isn't extremely robust, and it doesn't implement retries or exponential backoff, which it should. The Spotify API can, of course, do plenty more than connectr exposes.
Systray/Menubar Application: * Mac OS X - Done * Windows - Done * Linux - Maybe someday
$ git clone https://github.com/mrmekon/connectr.git
$ cd connectr
$ cargo run
On first launch, Connectr will open your web browser to a self-configuration page, and save its configuration to your system home directory. The configuration page will walk you through creating the necessary Spotify developer application.
On the first launch, connectr will guide you through setting up a Spotify developer application. If you want to do it manually instead, or if something goes wrong, here are the instructions:
connectr.ini (see below).Note: connectr uses ~/.connectr.ini if it exists. If it does not exist, connectr will fallback to trying connectr.ini in the directory it is run from. A template is provided in connectr.ini.in.
connectr's configuration is read from a regular INI file with these sections:
ex: Bakesale = spotify:album:70XjdLKH7HHsFVWoQipP0T will show as 'Bakesale' in the menu, and will play the specified Sebadoh album when clicked.
note: this section is auto-generated and auto-updated at runtime
``` [connectr] port=5432
[application] secret=xxxxxyyyyyaaaaabbbbbcccccddddd client_id=xXxXxyYyYynNnNnNmMmMmMpPpPpP
[presets] Discover Weekly=spotify:user:spotify:playlist:37i9dQZEVXcOmDhsenkuCu Edge Detector=spotify:user:mrmekon:playlist:4SKkpDbZwNGklpIILmEZAg Play Today=spotify:user:mrmekon:playlist:4c8eKK6kKrcdt1HToEX7Jc
[tokens] access=this-is-autogenerated refresh=this-is-also-autogenerated expire=1492766270 ```
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