Authentication failed: Bad credentials

[ManiArasteh]

Hi. I installed spotify-player but I get Bad credentials error. I entered the correct username and password and I have Premium account, too, but it failed. Can you help me fix this?

[GigaScratch]

Installed today (via aur/spotify-player-full-pipe 0.19.1-1) and am also getting this. Logs seem okay but also pretty empty aside from having a full config list.

2024-07-29T11:11:35.961162Z  INFO spotify_player: Configurations: Configs { app_config: AppConfig { theme: "dracula", client_id: "65b708073fc0480ea92a077233ca87bd", client_port: 8080, player_event_hook_command: None, playback_format: "{status} {track} • {artists}\n{album}\n{metadata}", notify_format: NotifyFormat { summary: "{track} • {artists}", body: "{album}" }, notify_timeout_in_secs: 0, tracks_playback_limit: 50, proxy: None, ap_port: None, app_refresh_duration_in_ms: 32, playback_refresh_duration_in_ms: 0, page_size_in_rows: 20, play_icon: "▶", pause_icon: "▌▌", liked_icon: "♥", border_type: Plain, progress_bar_type: Rectangle, playback_window_position: Top, cover_img_length: 9, cover_img_width: 5, cover_img_scale: 1.0, playback_window_width: 6, enable_media_control: true, enable_streaming: Always, enable_notify: true, enable_cover_image_cache: true, default_device: "spotify-player", device: DeviceConfig { name: "spotify-player", device_type: "speaker", volume: 70, bitrate: 320, audio_cache: false, normalization: false, autoplay: false }, notify_streaming_only: false, seek_duration_secs: 5 }, keymap_config: KeymapConfig { keymaps: [Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('n'))] }, command: NextTrack }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('p'))] }, command: PreviousTrack }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('.'))] }, command: PlayRandom }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char(' '))] }, command: ResumePause }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [Ctrl(Char('r'))] }, command: Repeat }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [Alt(Char('r'))] }, command: ToggleFakeTrackRepeatMode }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [Ctrl(Char('s'))] }, command: Shuffle }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('+'))] }, command: VolumeUp }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('-'))] }, command: VolumeDown }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('_'))] }, command: Mute }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('>'))] }, command: SeekForward }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('<'))] }, command: SeekBackward }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Enter)] }, command: ChooseSelected }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('r'))] }, command: RefreshPlayback }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('/'))] }, command: Search }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('z'))] }, command: Queue }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [Ctrl(Char('z'))] }, command: AddSelectedItemToQueue }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('Z'))] }, command: AddSelectedItemToQueue }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [Ctrl(Char(' '))] }, command: ShowActionsOnSelectedItem }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('g')), None(Char('a'))] }, command: ShowActionsOnSelectedItem }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('a'))] }, command: ShowActionsOnCurrentTrack }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('R'))] }, command: RestartIntegratedClient }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Tab)] }, command: FocusNextWindow }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(BackTab)] }, command: FocusPreviousWindow }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('T'))] }, command: SwitchTheme }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('D'))] }, command: SwitchDevice }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('u')), None(Char('p'))] }, command: BrowseUserPlaylists }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('u')), None(Char('a'))] }, command: BrowseUserFollowedArtists }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('u')), None(Char('A'))] }, command: BrowseUserSavedAlbums }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('g')), None(Char(' '))] }, command: CurrentlyPlayingContextPage }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('g')), None(Char('t'))] }, command: TopTrackPage }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('g')), None(Char('r'))] }, command: RecentlyPlayedTrackPage }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('g')), None(Char('y'))] }, command: LikedTrackPage }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('g')), None(Char('L'))] }, command: LyricPage }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('l'))] }, command: LyricPage }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('g')), None(Char('l'))] }, command: LibraryPage }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('g')), None(Char('s'))] }, command: SearchPage }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('g')), None(Char('b'))] }, command: BrowsePage }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Backspace)] }, command: PreviousPage }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [Ctrl(Char('q'))] }, command: PreviousPage }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('O'))] }, command: OpenSpotifyLinkFromClipboard }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('?'))] }, command: OpenCommandHelp }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [Ctrl(Char('h'))] }, command: OpenCommandHelp }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('q'))] }, command: Quit }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [Ctrl(Char('c'))] }, command: Quit }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Esc)] }, command: ClosePopup }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('j'))] }, command: SelectNextOrScrollDown }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [Ctrl(Char('n'))] }, command: SelectNextOrScrollDown }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Down)] }, command: SelectNextOrScrollDown }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('k'))] }, command: SelectPreviousOrScrollUp }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [Ctrl(Char('p'))] }, command: SelectPreviousOrScrollUp }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Up)] }, command: SelectPreviousOrScrollUp }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(PageUp)] }, command: PageSelectPreviousOrScrollUp }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [Ctrl(Char('b'))] }, command: PageSelectPreviousOrScrollUp }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(PageDown)] }, command: PageSelectNextOrScrollDown }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [Ctrl(Char('f'))] }, command: PageSelectNextOrScrollDown }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('g')), None(Char('g'))] }, command: SelectFirstOrScrollToTop }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Home)] }, command: SelectFirstOrScrollToTop }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('G'))] }, command: SelectLastOrScrollToBottom }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(End)] }, command: SelectLastOrScrollToBottom }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('s')), None(Char('t'))] }, command: SortTrackByTitle }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('s')), None(Char('a'))] }, command: SortTrackByArtists }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('s')), None(Char('A'))] }, command: SortTrackByAlbum }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('s')), None(Char('d'))] }, command: SortTrackByDuration }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('s')), None(Char('D'))] }, command: SortTrackByAddedDate }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('s')), None(Char('r'))] }, command: ReverseTrackOrder }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [Ctrl(Char('k'))] }, command: MovePlaylistItemUp }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [Ctrl(Char('j'))] }, command: MovePlaylistItemDown }, Keymap { key_sequence: KeySequence { keys: [None(Char('N'))] }, command: CreatePlaylist }], actions: [] }, theme_config: ThemeConfig { themes: [Theme { name: "default", palette: Palette { background: None, foreground: None, black: Color { color: Black }, blue: Color { color: Blue }, cyan: Color { color: Cyan }, green: Color { color: Green }, magenta: Color { color: Magenta }, red: Color { color: Red }, white: Color { color: Gray }, yellow: Color { color: Yellow }, bright_black: Color { color: DarkGray }, bright_white: Color { color: White }, bright_red: Color { color: LightRed }, bright_magenta: Color { color: LightMagenta }, bright_green: Color { color: LightGreen }, bright_cyan: Color { color: LightCyan }, bright_blue: Color { color: LightBlue }, bright_yellow: Color { color: LightYellow } }, component_style: ComponentStyle { block_title: None, border: None, playback_status: None, playback_track: None, playback_artists: None, playback_album: None, playback_metadata: None, playback_progress_bar: None, current_playing: None, page_desc: None, playlist_desc: None, table_header: None, selection: None, secondary_row: None } }] }, cache_folder: "/home/olivia/.cache/spotify-player" }
2024-07-29T11:11:35.962364Z  INFO spotify_player::auth: Creating a new session with new authentication credentials
2024-07-29T11:12:19.276628Z  WARN spotify_player::auth: Failed to authenticate: Login failed with reason: Bad credentials
2024-07-29T11:12:38.747635Z  WARN spotify_player::auth: Failed to authenticate: Login failed with reason: Bad credentials
2024-07-29T11:13:34.041577Z  WARN spotify_player::auth: Failed to authenticate: Login failed with reason: Bad credentials

• I've tried with both my own Client ID and the Default one.
• This page shows "Premium Individual" as the account type.
  • https://www.spotify.com/nz/account/overview
• I have tried with both my account in "correct" case and lowercase, as well as my email for good measure.
• I also tried changing ports for both client and ap to 443 like that person a year or so ago in #201 had success with, but didn't see any change.

[elipp]

New user here - I also can't seem to be able to login.

Version: 0.19.1, installed via cargo install spotify_player.

Does this require a "Premium Individual" account? I have "Premium Family"

[aome510]

can reproduce by deleting my cached credentials. Not sure what has been changed recently. I will take a look later today.

[aome510]

It seems Spotify changed the authentication workflow that breaks the library spotify_player is using: https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot/issues/1308. Let's monitor that thread to see how they gonna fix it.

[C4theBomb]

Hi, I'm here from NixOS where its also broken and I'm also looking for a fix. Read the above thread, its made some progress and they have a new method.

Just a summary of the associated conversation from the above thread. Cause: Spotify completely removed username&password authentication from the API through Hermes/Mercury.

Associated fix: They have a proposed solution, and someone there has a working fix. They new fix switches to OAuth2 as their method of authentication.

Here is the new workflow that they are using: https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot/issues/1308#issuecomment-2258478905

Associated changes to the librespot client: https://github.com/devgianlu/go-librespot/commit/1e82a276812d5ef5ca0a52fe7d993ea549667a17

[Onotate]

Somehow it is working again..

[C4theBomb]

Same here. I'd keep watching for another 24 hours but if not this should be resolved @aome510. Spotify rolled back the code, though librespot is still planning on trying to switch to OAuth2 based auth.

[GigaScratch]

Working now for me as well.

Super nice they're prioritizing OAuth though, I am not keen on entering my login details directly, even if open source.

[elipp]

Works for me too!

[ManiArasteh]

I still have the same problem. Can you login?

[aome510]

works for me today too

[ManiArasteh]

Not for me. I still having the problem. Did you do something?

[aome510]

no I didn't. Maybe Spotify rolled back the changes region by region, so it might take a while for your to be updated

[ManiArasteh]

Ok. Waiting to apply the changes

[ManiArasteh]

It's not working. But anyway, I close this issue.

[ManiArasteh]

Still not working. I reopen this issue until the problem will be fixed.

[ManiArasteh]

Read this :point_down:

Developer of librespot got an email that the login method the library uses will not supported anymore in a few days. Shared in issue that @aome510 referenced.

[ecabigting]

can reproduce by deleting my cached credentials. Not sure what has been changed recently. I will take a look later today.

having the same issue, it was working this morning, but when I accidentally cleared my cached credentials, i cannot seem to login. Do we have any work arounds?

[luinbytes]

Can confirm still an issue also, worked fine yesterday and now auth is failing.

[ManiArasteh]

Spotify removed authentication workflow completely. Now, what should we do? :sob:

[casualNavigator]

Can confirm I have the same problem just today,

I'm on a Spotify Premium account, the credentials are correct --tested logging in using the official client and the web player.

I was using spotify-player cli as the controller and spotifyd as the device to stream to, but today both stopped working (I'm still on a Spotify Premium plan).

First I tried to resolve the issue with spotifyd:

I use the keyring option in the spotifyd config file spotifyd.conf, -so spotifyd gets the password from the keyring- which had no issue until today. So then tried setting the Spotify credentials manually for spotifyd, which also didn't work.

Ran spotfyd withspotifyd --no-daemon --debug-credentials,

I can see the output:

...
...
failed to connect to spotify: Login failed with reason: Bad credentials

Even though the credentials is indeed correct.

What worked for spotifyd was:

I had to remove all password entries from the spotifyd config file, which makes spotifyd use zeroconf authentification. This enabled the spotifyd device to be recognized from the official Spotify client and able to stream to it. (spotfyd is needed to run alongside the official Spotify client on the same machine -just for once for zeroconf authentification).

Now that spotifyd is being recognized by the official Spotify client, I deleted the spotify-player cli cache files in ~/.config/cache/spotify-player for a fresh slate, and ran spotify-player again, but got:

Failed to authenticate, 2 tries left

even through the credentials is correct.

Summary:

After setting spotifyd to use zerconf authentification, the spotifyd device is recognized on the official Spotify client and web player and is able be streamed to. But, spotify-player cli can't be run, as it is not able to authenticate even though the credentials are correct.

[ManiArasteh]

Maybe we can use another library or create an app called "applemusic-player" for using Apple Music in Terminal :joy:

[repparw]

I have the same problem after formatting my pc. Is this affecting all new installs right now? Did spotify provide a new auth method at least or something? Maybe something with client/secret keys?

[ManiArasteh]

IIs this affecting all new installs right now?

Yes. This affecting all new installs.

[norbeyandresg]

Same error here. Is there any workaround to authenticate while they fix the issue?

[ManiArasteh]

Someone opened a PR for librespot. I wanna test it now.

[ManiArasteh]

I can't work with librespot

[norbeyandresg]

@ManiArasteh no luck trying to authenticate with the changes of the pr you mention for librespot?

[ManiArasteh]

no luck trying to authenticate with the changes of the pr you mention for librespot?

No! I can't work with librespot. I'm new to Rust, and even I use ChatGPT for creating Rust application. I work with Python (Sometimes with C#, HTML, CSS and JavaScript). You can see in my repositories.

Go to BeagleEditor repository. I created with Python.

[ManiArasteh]

Someone having same problem. #547

[repparw]

Can someone who still has their cached credentials share what the file location and syntax is? So I can look for a workaround authenticating with client/secret or something

[casualNavigator]

@ManiArasteh @repparw @norbeyandresg @ecabigting @luinbytes

Was able to regenerate my credentials.json with this: https://github.com/dspearson/librespot-auth

[ManiArasteh]

I deleted MSVC. I must reinstall it

[ManiArasteh]

Wow! It worked with repository that @casualNavigator mentioned! But I won't close this issue

[aome510]

Hey guys, I'm keeping my eyes on the librespot issue to see when they implement a patch and will update spotify_player accordingly. This is very unfortunate 😞 but it's great to hear that there is a workaround (https://github.com/dspearson/librespot-auth)

[ManiArasteh]

Yeah, you can use... Aha you wrote that repository link. OK, I'm really sad, too. But I logged in to Spotify player with app that dspearson wrote

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Hey guys, I'm keeping my eyes on the librespot issue to see when they implement a patch and will update spotify_player accordingly. This is very unfortunate 😞 but it's great to hear that there is a workaround ( https://github.com/dspearson/librespot-auth)

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[streof]

Unfortunately, the workaround does not work for me on macOS running the latest version of the Spotify app. I don't see any connected device(s). When I open Spotify on my phone, my phone does appear in the list as expected.

[repparw]

Unfortunately, the workaround does not work for me on macOS running the latest version of the Spotify app. I don't see any connected device(s). When I open Spotify on my phone, my phone does appear in the list as expected.

You built and ran librespot-auth to get the credentials? If so it could be firewall blocking the discovery port. Don't know what firewall macos has. Also try from spotify web in the same device if phone doesn't show it

[streof]

Turning off the firewall did the trick. Thanks a lot!

I do get this error message for some playlists: [

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Any idea why?

[juliusdelta]

Took me a minute to find exactly how to implement the work around so here's a set of instructions that worked for me since this is the issue linked in the README:

1. Install Rust tool chain following the Rust Documentation instructions
2. Clone https://github.com/dspearson/librespot-auth
3. cd into librespot-auth
4. cargo build --release to build the project
5. Run the binary ./target/release/librespot-auth --name "Example Speaker"
6. Open the Spotify client and select "Example Speaker" as the output device
7. librespot-auth will then create a new credentials.json file in the librespot-auth directory and kill it's own process
8. Copy that credentials.json file to the spotify_player cache directory (overwriting the one that's already there)
   • On MacOS this is ~/.cache/spotify-player
9. spotify_player should now work.

[kbomb69]

Quick note for anyone not wanting / unable to disable their firewall: Spotify uses mDNS for discovery, so port 5353 UDP. Opening that allowed me to see the virtual device created by librespot-auth.

[khaosdoctor]

Took me a minute to find exactly how to implement the work around so here's a set of instructions that worked for me since this is the issue linked in the README:

1. Install Rust tool chain following the Rust Documentation instructions
2. Clone dspearson/librespot-auth
3. cd into librespot-auth
4. cargo build --release to build the project
5. Run the binary ./target/release/librespot-auth --name "Example Speaker"
6. Open the Spotify client and select "Example Speaker" as the output device
7. librespot-auth will then create a new credentials.json file in the librespot-auth directory and kill it's own process

8. Copy that credentials.json file to the spotify_player cache directory (overwriting the one that's already there)

   • On MacOS this is ~/.cache/spotify-player
9. spotify_player should now work.

Please mark this as the resolution (at least for now), it works on Mac flawlessly

[ManiArasteh]

Please don't repeat instructions or giving a review. It will make this issue crowded.

[ManiArasteh]

Hey @aome510, You can switch to rspotify. Because rspotify supports OAuth2, when I wanted to test spotify-tui, I saw that it uses OAuth2, with rspotify module

[aome510]

Hey @aome510, You can switch to rspotify. Because rspotify supports OAuth2, when I wanted to test spotify-tui, I saw that it uses OAuth2, with rspotify module

I do use rspotify in the app. librespot is used for bunch of different things, one of which is streaming. spotify-tui doesn't support streaming, so they can use rspotify exclusively.

[ManiArasteh]

Hmm, OK

[brokoli18]

I did this, obtained the credentials file and put it into ~/.config/spotify-player. However when I start up spotify-client it still says: No cached credentials found, please authenticate the application first. I started the client specifically setting the cache directory with -c but it still didnt work. Am I missing something?

[chrisgrieser]

Open the Spotify client and select "Example Speaker" as the output device

Tried to follow the instructions, but hit a roadblock with this step. Neither in the spotify web player, nor in the spotify app, does an Example Speaker ever show up for me. 🤔

guess it's back to spotify_tui for me until this issue resolved.

[ManiArasteh]

I did this, obtained the credentials file and put it into ~/.config/spotify-player. However when I start up spotify-client it still says: No cached credentials found, please authenticate the application first. I started the client specifically setting the cache directory with -c but it still didnt work. Am I missing something?

spotify-client or spotify_player?

[brokoli18]

spotify-client or spotify_player?

Pardon, I start up spotify_player

❯ spotify_player
No cached credentials found, please authenticate the application first.
Username: