Spot

Simple Spotify-powered tunes for your office.

Origins

This project is heavily inspired by Play. Which is an awesome iTunes-based solution.

Requirements

• OS X
• Spotify = 0.8 <--See Setup below
• (Slack, Campfire, or HipChat) with Hubot (optional but recommended)

Setup

You'll need an AppleScript'able version of Spotify. See this gist.

Clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/minton/Spot.git && cd Spot

Install gems:

bundle install

Set Up Environment Variables:

Optional: To provide a link to your audio stream in the web interface, define an environment variable SPOT_FEED_URL

```
export SPOT_FEED_URL="//your/audio/feed/listen.m3u"
```

Start Spot:

rake start

The server will start up here: localhost:5051.

Spotify will open and Repeat and Shuffle will be turned on.

You should now open your favorite playlist or radio station.

Airplay Support

You'll need to Enable access for assistive devices in System Preferences for this to work.

Usage

Spot can technically be used by any client capable of GET/PUT/POST requests as described below but it was really designed to be controlled via Hubot in Campfire. You can find the latest Spot Hubot script here: Spot.coffee.

Hubot

hubot play! - Plays current playlist or song.
hubot pause - Pause the music.
hubot next - Plays the next song.
hubot back - Plays the previous song.
hubot playing? - Returns the currently-played song.
hubot play <song> - Play a particular song. This plays the first most popular result.
hubot volume? - Returns the current volume level.
hubot volume [0-100] - Sets the volume.
hubot volume+ - Bumps the volume.
hubot volume- - Bumps the volume down.
hubot mute - Sets the volume to 0.
hubot [name here] says turn it down - Sets the volume to 15 and blames [name here].
hubot say <message> - Tells hubot to read a message aloud.
hubot find <song> - See if Spotify knows about a song without attempting to play it.
hubot airplay <Apple TV> - Tell Spot to broadcast to the specified Apple TV.
hubot spot - Restart Spot
hubot respot - Restart Spotify

Clients

Window Spot for Windows

iSpot for iOS

API

What song is playing:

~$ curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" -X GET http://localhost:5051/playing

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 50
Now playing “Raise Your Weapon” by Deadmau5...

Album art for current song:

~$ wget http://localhost:5051/playing.png

100%[======================================>] 87,510      --.-K/s   in 0s
2012-12-21 21:20:38 (518 MB/s) - ‘playing.png’ saved [87510/87510]

Play a specific song:

~$ curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" -X POST -d "q=Raise your weapon" http://localhost:5051/find

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 50
Now playing “Raise Your Weapon” by Deadmau5...

Play the music:

~$ curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" -X PUT http://localhost:5051/play

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 50
Now playing “Raise Your Weapon” by Deadmau5...

Pause the music:

~$ curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" -X PUT http://localhost:5051/pause

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 21
Everything is paused.

Mute the music:

~$ curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" -X PUT http://localhost:5051/mute

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 7
Shhh...

What's the volume set at:

~$ curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" -X  GET http://localhost:5051/volume

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 2
42

Set the volume:

~$ curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" -X PUT -d "volume=42" http://localhost:5051/volume

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 2
41 <--Close enough :)

Skip to the next track:

~$ curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" -X PUT http://localhost:5051/next

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 56
Onwards! Now playing “Ghosts N Stuff” by Deadmau5...

Play the previous track:

~$ curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" -X PUT http://localhost:5051/back

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 71
Let's hear it again! Now playing “Raise Your Weapon” by Deadmau5...

Author

Spot was lovingly crafted by @minton. You should follow me for good karma!

Art

Hubot image from Cameron McEfee found here: http://octodex.github.com/hubot/

Campfire image from 37signals.

Spotify image from Spotify.