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Hutspot

Welcome to the Hutspot Documentation

Hutspot is a Spotify controller for Sailfish-OS. It uses the Spotify web-api. Playing is done on an ‘connect’ device. It requires a premium Spotify account.

Main features:

  • Browse Albums/Artists/Playlists
  • Search Albums/Artists/Playlists/Tracks
  • Support for Genres & Moods, New Releases, Featured Playlists and Recommendations
  • Follow/Unfollow, Save/Unsave
  • Discover and control Connect Devices
  • Control Play/Pause/Next/Previous/Volume/Shuffle/Replay/Seek
  • Create and Edit Playlists
  • Supports local Librespot service
  • Supports Mpris and Media Keys

It does not support saving tracks nor offline playing

Librespot on Sailfish

Playing music on your phone can be done using Librespot, an open source Spotify player. Hutspot has some options in it’s Settings page to integrate the Librespot service. For example Start/Stop and Register Credentials.

Development

Sources of Hutspot can be found on github. Development is done using the Sailfish OS IDE. Most sources are QML and Javascript. Some part is done in C++.

Please report any problems or requests in the Github Issue Tracker

Translations

Translations are welcome. Either through a Pull-Request or using Transifex.

Current translations:

  • Chinese (zh)
  • Finnish (fi)
  • German (de)
  • Italian (it)
  • Swedish (sv)

Thanks

  • Spotify for web api
  • JMPerez for spotify-web-api-js
  • pipacs for O2
  • Nathan Osman: qmdnsengine
  • kimmoli: IconProvider & MultiItemPicker
  • leszek: DevicePixelRatioHack
  • librespot-org for Librespot
  • dtcooper for raspotify
  • sfietkonstantin for rust and cargo on OBS

License

O2 and spotify-web-api-js have their own license. For Hutspot it is MIT.

Hutspot is being built on OBS. See Installation on how to install it.

Due to the issues with detecting Spotify capable players this app is not ‘plug and play’. Don’t use it unless you are willing to mess around.

Donations

Sorry but we do not accept any donations. We do appreciate the gesture but it is a hobby that we are able to do because others are investing their time as well.

If someone wants to show appreciation for our work by a donation then we suggest to help support openrepos.net.