Switching to and Using Open Authorization (OAuth).

[doris1347]

pi@sPoT:~$

Okay, a quick note for users who are feeling confused about this:
FYI dtcooper/raspotify#675

OAuth: Authorization

Password login has been deprecated and is no longer supported. Instead, OAuth Authorization must be used. Follow the steps below at START HERE to authenticate using OAuth:

To use Midori browser under vnc comment out #python3 spotifypod.py in sudo nano /etc/xdg/openbox/autostart
and save and reboot ...right click on the black openbox screen then open web browser (will take a while to load) Open the provided URL to complete the login process, you should see a hyperlink that says login to spotify, click it, you will be redirected to spotify login, just login and accept the terms then:-

[INFO librespot_oauth] OAuth server listening on 127.0.0.1:5588

The authentication token will be in the folder YOUR_CONFIGURATION_PATH called credentials.json. I copied that now to the raspotify folder cp credentials.json /var/cache/raspotify/

Updated the raspotify config file sudo nano /etc/raspotify/conf to comment out below items to enable 0Auth instead of username/password:

#LIBRESPOT_DISABLE_CREDENTIAL_CACHE=
#LIBRESPOT_DISABLE_DISCOVERY=
#LIBRESPOT_USERNAME="mysecretusername"
#LIBRESPOT_PASSWORD="mysecretpassword"

Restarted raspotify with systemctl restart raspotify and everything worked,

In sudo nano /etc/xdg/openbox/autostart un-comment python3 spotifypod.py save and reboot.

Good Luck.

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START HERE:

Password login has been deprecated and is no longer supported. Instead, OAuth Authorization must be used. Follow the steps below to authenticate using OAuth:

#Run the following command to initiate the OAuth process:

librespot --cache /var/cache/raspotify -j

Open the provided URL in a web browser (Midori) to complete the login process

Press Ctrl-C to quit. [2024-12-31T05:17:30Z INFO librespot] Gracefully shutting down.

pi@sPoT:$ cd /var/cache/raspotify/
-bash: cd: /var/cache/raspotify: Permission denied
pi@sPoT:$ sudo chmod -R a+rwX /var/cache/raspotify To obtain read/write permission to /var/cache/raspotify directory.

pi@sPoT:$ cd /var/cache/raspotify
pi@sPoT:/var/cache/raspotify$ ls -a
. .. credentials.json files volume
pi@sPoT:/var/cache/raspotify$ cd
pi@sPoT:$ systemctl daemon-reload && systemctl restart raspotify

==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.systemd1.reload-daemon ===
Authentication is required to reload the systemd state.
Authenticating as: ,,, (pi)
Password:
==== AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE ===
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.systemd1.manage-units ===
Authentication is required to restart 'raspotify.service'.
Authenticating as: ,,, (pi)
Password:

Update: the raspotify config file sudo nano /etc/raspotify/conf to comment out below items to enable 0Auth instead of username/password:

#LIBRESPOT_DISABLE_CREDENTIAL_CACHE=
#LIBRESPOT_DISABLE_DISCOVERY=
#LIBRESPOT_USERNAME="mysecretusername"
#LIBRESPOT_PASSWORD="mysecretpassword"

sudo reboot

note: However you may still need to select the device from the spotify-connect list (if you didn't do OAuth (Open Authorization) with your computer/phone first you may have to refresh the Spotify-Connect list a few times to be able to see your "sPoT" device on the list of available devices - you can close immediately after otherwise you will receive "error no devices".

pi@sPoT:~$