Mopidy and Spotify

After a few months of belt tightening I allowed myself to restart my Spotify subscription. This meant I could finally see if I could get ncmpcpp (stupid name) to play music from spotify.

I’d already setup mopidy and configured the mpd and spotify plugins but hadn’t been able to test the connection.

It kind of just worked

So, although I did have issues getting mopidy set up originally (I think pulseaudio / permission issues). With this last step, after upgrading spotify, it all just worked.

Search and playback from ncmpcpp are both working fine. I was fully prepared for this to soak up hours of my evening and then maybe just not work and then writing a long post about all the faff.

But it was plain sailing, so there we are.