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Despotify - the open source Spotify client http://despotify.se/

Accounts

Despotify can only be utilized with "Premium" Spotify accounts. 

Source code

The latest version of the source code can be checked out from our Subversion repository $ svn checkout https://despotify.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/despotify despotify

Directories

The checked out source code contains a number of directories
  java/     This is where one of the available Java implementations go
  src/      This is where the C based client, library and Python bindings go
  web/      This is where the source code for our web site goes (http://despotify.se)

Build instructions for the simple client and library

You'll need a few libraries to be able to build despotify If you're running Debian/Ubuntu they can be installed with the following commands

aptitude install libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libvorbis-dev libtool

aptitude install libpulse-dev # For pulseaudio backend

aptitude install libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 libgstreamer0.10-dev # For GStreamer backend

aptitude install libao-dev # For libao backend

If you encounter any problems, ask a friend or ask in the channel

despotify on EFNet (example EFNet servers: irc.swepipe.se, efnet.xs4all.nl)

1. Goto the directory src/ where the despotify library and client is located $ cd src

2. Optionial (..because just running make will do this for you otherwise)

   • 2.1 Copy Makefile.local.mk.dist to Makefile.local.mk $ cp Makefile.local.mk.dist Makefile.local.mk

   • 2.2 Make local adjustments such as specifying additional path for where the compiler's linker should look for libraries (modify LDFLAGS) or install to a different prefix (i.e. /usr/local instead of /usr) $ nano Makefile.local.mk

3. Run make $ make

4. Install $ sudo make install

5. You'll now have a client called 'despotify-simple' and a gateway called 'gateway' installed under ${INSTALL_PREFIX}/bin (usually this will be /usr/bin)

Also checkout

http://jotify.felixbruns.de/
- Felix Bruns' Java implementation of a Spotify compatible library and GUI client

http://github.com/nevyn/spot
- Nevyn's Spotify compatible client for the iPhone/iPod platform

http://www.spotify.com/
- Home of Spotify 

Final notes

This project is neither endorsed by nor associated with Spotify :-)