Biking in the headwind was one of the most draining thing (physically/mentally) I did while in CPH

In retrospect, I should have bought an electric bike 😅

No way! (I will definitely get one when we move to the eternally windy Ørestad, though)

really cool shit, @U7PBP4UVA. I want one. What’s the hardware recipe? A raspberry Pi + an NFC reader?

Yes! The tags contain just a Spotify ID pointing to the album. I found the album art online.

Now you got me thinking that you could also repurpose an old Android phone…

The raspberry pi is running moode audio that acts also as a Spotify connect client, and outputs audio via the HDMI

Audio via HDMI? That’s new to me.

Well that’s how most DVD players and streaming boxes send audio to the TVs

ah of course

AFAIK it’s digital audio which bypasses the noisy Pi DAC - not that I could hear a difference between this and and headphone jack :)

How are you controlling Spotify?

https://support.spotify.com/us/article/spotify-connect/

But that's just supported by Spotify's own apps, right? Or is there an SDK?

Using the Spotify API, to start playback on a remote device.

SDK

e.g. https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/guides/using-connect-web-api/

Just an http request

Ah, nice 👍

At some point they even had an api that actually gave you access to the samples. Those were the days.

Original product owner of Spotify Connect here. 👋 This makes me so happy to see that I almost want to cry!

I once visited Bang & Olufsen's quite top-secret lab where they experimented with things not too far from this thing, @U7PBP4UVA. 😃 The NDA has probably expired, but I dare not detail this more anyway.

Heh, whoever has seen this in action wants me to make it commercial… but the album art is copyrighted and I think it’s quite the niche application anyway.

I think it would sell like crazy. Maybe some jukebox kinda UI? Or a wall jukebox. Like a clock with X slots, a very tangible playlist editor. It will advance at each song end, and you can spin it for a random song. 😃

I can put you in contact with a guy I used to work with at Spotify who might be able to reason a bit around the copyright issue. At least I think he's still working there.

Or make it CD size, so that people can use CD covers. And they can also just print stuff themselves. 😃

Heh, I don't think that the DJs will be happy to cede their position as mood makers. I've never been in bar that had a Jukebox, I think with today's breadth of music tastes, it's a bit impossible to please everyone even within the same niche. But for the home it allows me to build my own "collection" but I do have to print the stuff myself 😉

Well, I was certainly having the home in mind. I owned “Spotify in the home”, so that’s were I’m tuned. 😀

It would certainly be a premium product. Perhaps a subscription to send you the physical stuff at home every week?

Well, let’s move the discussion elsewhere and keep the thread on the DIY portion :)

On the DIY portion. Does Spotify Connect have an SDK/API these days?

Yes, you can list devices and control playback on them