Playdar resolver for Spotify, using LibSpotify and LibSpotify-Sharp.

Copyright (c) 2011 Steven Robertson, steverobertson@gmail.com

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This resolver can only be used with a Spotify Premium accounts. You will need also need a Spotify API key, which is available from the Spotify Developers site.

Pre-requisites:

• Common Language Runtime: Mono 2 on Mac & Linux, or .NET 2 on Windows.
• IDE: MonoDevelop on Mac & Linux, or Visual Studio 2005 or newer on Windows.
• libspotify for your platform, downloaded from the Spotify Developers site.
• lame encoder for your platform.

This resolver is compiled using MonoDevelop on Mac and Linux, and Visual Studio 2005 or newer on Windows.

You need your own API key for this resolver to work. The API key should be copied into "#region Key" in the Spotify.cs source file.

It's a good idea to obfuscate the build product, if you are distributing the resolver, to avoid anyone easily obtaining your API key using a disassembler.

First check you have mono on the path:

mono --version

This should give you version information for the Mono compiler. Otherwise you need to fix that first.

The resolver will look for a configuration file called spotify.conf using the path defined by PLAYDAR_ETC and containing the following:

[spotify]
username=your_username
password=your_password

The bin folder contains scripts that can be copied into the build output dir to wrap the resolver and provide the PLAYDAR_ETC environment variable.

Test the resolver on the command-line to check it gives JSON resolver info, something like the following:

a{"_msgtype":"settings","name":"Spotify Resolver","weight":90,"targettime":15000,"localonly":true}

If it doesn't provide this then either the login failed or there is another issue preventing it from starting. Check the log file (written when using the debug build) which is written to SpotifyResolver.log.

If you do get the JSON resolver info above it's ready to test using Playdar.

Check that you also get info from running lame which is also required.

Finally, the following files are typical in the product for each platform. You might compile a release build and remove log4net.dll, log and debug files.

Mac OS

• Newtonsoft.Json.Net20.dll
• SpotifyResolver.exe*
• SpotifyResolver.exe.config
• SpotifyResolver.exe.mdb
• SpotifyResolver.log
• SpotifyResolver.sh*
• lame*
• libspotify
• log4net.dll

Linux

• Newtonsoft.Json.Net20.dll
• SpotifyResolver.exe*
• SpotifyResolver.exe.config
• SpotifyResolver.exe.mdb
• SpotifyResolver.log
• SpotifyResolver.sh*
• libspotify.so -> libspotify.so.4
• libspotify.so.4 -> libspotify.so.4.0.400076
• libspotify.so.4.0.400076
• log4net.dll

Assuming here that lame is already available somewhere on the system path.

Windows

• Newtonsoft.Json.Net20.dll*
• SpotifyResolver.exe*
• SpotifyResolver.exe.config*
• SpotifyResolver.log*
• SpotifyResolver.pdb*
• lame.exe*
• libspotify.dll*
• log4net.dll*

In all of the above, filenames appended with * are executable. Those with -> are symbolic links.

Hopefully that helps get you up & running.