Simple guide to install raspotify to Pi v1 and zero v1.x

[bluesmaz]

Would there be any guide how to install raspotify 0.31.8.1 versio to headless PI v1 and zero v.1.x as they are not anymore officially supported? I really well understand why this is, and it is very much ok.

I would assume that there is also others that are interested of this kind of alternative guide. :)

[JasonLG1979]

Think about what you're asking for, a guide to something that's unsupported. Right now the process is very similar to installing the current release but that could very well change at anytime.

[JasonLG1979]

It's just like installing any other random .deb. download the .deb and run apt install ./random.deb.

[JasonLG1979]

Right now configuration is the same as far as I can remember.

[bluesmaz]

Excellent! This is helpfull.

[JasonLG1979]

Now that I'm home at my computer..

Specifically:

curl https://github.com/dtcooper/raspotify/releases/download/0.31.8.1/raspotify_0.31.8.1.librespot.v0.3.1-54-gf4be9bb_armhf.deb

sudo apt install ./raspotify_0.31.8.1.librespot.v0.3.1-54-gf4be9bb_armhf.deb

[JasonLG1979]

@bluesmaz I've added the instructions to the README.

[bluesmaz]

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[Sshellcommando]

So I am stuck with a raspberry pi zero w until the prices come down. I used it as a wireless spotify connect point to play music from an older Home Theater receiver. I'd really like to get this working again somehow. I went to download the older version listed in this thread and couldn't get my raspberry pi to read a .deb file. I did some research and know the ARM6v is no longer supported by Debian (I think?) Would this old version of raspotify work if I flashed an older version of the Raspberry Pi operating system to the pi zero w? What can I do to get this working again?

[JasonLG1979]

I mean install the latest stable Raspberry Pi OS. It's best to keep things as up to date as you can otherwise you'll end up with situations like this one where software passes you by.

[JasonLG1979]

To be clear 2 versions are currently offered. "Legacy" which is Old Stable in Debian speak and Stable. You want Stable. You're a version behind so you're running "Legacy" currently.

[vcenteary]

@Sshellcommando Im in Raspbian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye), and had the same error as you when trying to install it with the prompts of Jason. The solution is using:

wget https://github.com/dtcooper/raspotify/releases/download/0.31.8.1/raspotify_0.31.8.1.librespot.v0.3.1-54-gf4be9bb_armhf.deb

and then

sudo apt install ./raspotify_0.31.8.1.librespot.v0.3.1-54-gf4be9bb_armhf.deb

Hope it works for you!

[Sshellcommando]

so does that allow the install of raspotify that works for the legacy 32 bit OS?

[vcenteary]

Very much so, I'm currently using raspotify in a Raspi 1 model b+, fully working and sounding great!

[victorclaessen]

For anyone stumbling onto this topic. The librespot version in the deb file mentioned above no longer works on my Pi 1/bookworm due to a missing library. I recompiled using cargo. This took forever, so in case anyone needs a working librespot binary, you can find it here. https://github.com/victorclaessen/librespot-pi1 . Hope that helps someone eventually. It's great that we can still use this old hardware in a useful way!

[PJBrs]

Hi, that sounds great! I assume this version will also work on the first raspberry pi zero? And what version of raspberry os? I think I'm still on bullseye...

[omarsayan]

Were you able to successfully run in on the zero? I can’t get it to work on the rpi zero w. I just put the librespot binary file from victorclaessen to /usr/bin. After which raspotify seemed to run and I got the device visible as a Spotify connect device in the iOS app. But when I try connect and play no sound comes out. Bluetooth speakers are connected to rpi

[victorclaessen]

At first glance that sounds maybe like a problem between librespot and your bluetooth speakers, so your ALSA configuration? Can you play anything else on your bluetooth speakers from the command line?

[omarsayan]

Thanks for replying! Yes I can play a simple wav file with “aplay -D file.wav”

[victorclaessen]

I, myself, have since moved on to the Home Assistant Snapcast-server Add-on, and now run only the snapclient on the raspberry Pi, so I'm having a hard time duplicating your setup.

I would suggest running the librespot binary just from the command line (you may need to look up the exact command line options but it may look something like this librespot --backend alsa --device my_bluetooth.

You should then get the output of librespot in your terminal and may be able to use that to determine what's wrong when you play something. You can also add --verbose to get even more info.
Hope that helps.

If not, then look into snapserver/snapclient. I like it. Also gives you multiroom audio.

[victorclaessen]

I would imagine so. I ran it on (a fresh install of) the latest raspbian raspberry os bookworm.