spotifile

Spotifile

A fuse filesystem interface to your spotify playlists

To run

Add your username and password to conf.py. Register for a spotify API key at https://devaccount.spotify.com/my-account/keys/ and download the binary key file into this directory.

Python dependencies are in requirements

Run it like this:

python spotifile.py -d -s <mountpoint>

Stop it by unmounting first:

fusermount -u <mountpoint>

and then ^C the process.

Issues

Currently the contents of a playlist is loaded on readdir. This means that you must run ls on a directory before you can load a file from it.

The exact size of the file may be wrong (within about 44100 samples, based on the duration of the file as reported by spotify). As a result, you may get a deadlock at the end of the file because it doesn't check for the end of the audio.

^C is not passed to the fuse thread so the script will stop when you quit it. Make sure you run fusermount -u to unmount the fs too.

You need to specify some fuse options on the commandline (-s and -d), which should probably be fixed

Audio data is sent via a callback in libspotify at about playback rate, so you may get buffer underruns in your player occasionally. A fix to this would be to return as much audio as is available in the buffer instead of waiting for it to fill to the requested size

Seek doesn't work

It would be nice to encode to mp3 on the fly

Because libspotify only lets you stream one file you can only read from one song at a time. The behaviour if you try and read from more than one is unknown. It's likely that all streams will get the same audio content