SpotCommander

SpotCommander is a remote control for Spotify for Linux, optimized for mobile devices. It's based on HTML5 & PHP, works on any device with a modern browser, and it's free and open source.

SpotCommander is the most elegant, intuitive, feature-rich & universal remote control for Spotify, exclusive for Linux users!

Features

• Reponsive & intuitive user interface
• Launch/quit Spotify
• Now playing
• Control playback
• Adjust volume
• Toggle shuffle & repeat
• Playlists
• Starred items
• Search
• Browse playlists
• Browse albums
• Recently played
• Queue
• Lyrics
• Start track radio
• Play artists
• Top lists
• Popular playlists
• New albums
• Genres
• Share to social networks
• Gestures
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Android app
• Fullscreen on iOS
• Automatic update checking

Option 1: Install from AUR

SpotCommander is available in AUR, and can be installed like any other package from AUR. The PKGBUILD automates the manual installation process described below.

Note: If you have any kind of web server software installed on your system already, you should install manually instead to avoid touching your current configuration.

Option 2: Install manually

Note: This must be done as root.

Install & configure required packages

• Install required packages:

 $ pacman -S apache php php-apache php-sqlite qt4 inotify-tools xautomation wmctrl wget

• Enable PHP as described in the LAMP article

• Enable required PHP modules. In /etc/php/php.ini, uncomment these:

 extension=curl.so
 ...
 extension=pdo_sqlite.so
 ...
 extension=posix.so
 ...
 extension=sqlite3.so

• As root, create the file /etc/httpd/conf/extra/spotcommander.conf and add:

AddType text/cache-manifest .appcache

<Directory "/srv/http/spotcommander">
AllowOverride All
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType text/cache-manifest "access plus 0 seconds"
</Directory>

Note: If you are going to install in another directory than /srv/http/spotcommander, make sure you use the correct directory above.

• In /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, add to bottom:

Include conf/extra/spotcommander.conf

• Make Apache start when system boots:

 $ systemctl enable httpd.service

Give Apache access to /tmp

• Open /usr/lib/systemd/system/httpd.service and set:

 PrivateTmp=false

Reboot

• Some of the actions above require a reboot to take effect, so you must reboot your system now before continuing

Install SpotCommander

• Go into the web server root directory:

 $ cd /srv/http/

• Download the tar.bz2 file:

 $ wget -N http://www.olejon.net/code/spotcommander/files/spotcommander-8.7.tar.bz2

• Extract the tar.bz2 file:

 $ tar -jxvf spotcommander-8.7.tar.bz2

• Remove the tar.bz2 file:

 $ rm spotcommander-8.7.tar.bz2

• Go into the spotcommander folder:

 $ cd spotcommander

• Set the correct permissions:

 $ chmod 755 . && chmod 755 bin/* && chmod 777 cache/* && chmod -R 777 db/ && chmod 666 run/*

• Create symlink:

 $ ln -fs $(pwd)/bin/spotcommander /usr/local/bin/spotcommander

• You must now start the daemon. Open up a desktop terminal (not SSH) as the desktop user running Spotify (not root), and run this command:

 $ spotcommander start

By running it in the terminal the first time, you will be able to see if there are any errors.

• You should add the daemon to your startup applications. As root, create the file /etc/xdg/autostart/spotcommander.desktop and add:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=SpotCommander
Exec=spotcommander start

Try it

• You should now be able to control Spotify by going to:

 http://your.computers.ip.address.or.hostname/spotcommander

• To find out your current IP address, run this command:

 $ ip addr

• Android users should download the Android app, which can find your computer automatically

Configuration

It is not necessary to configure anything, but in the config.php file there are some options you can change.

See also

• Official website