lustyn / librespot-golang

Go port of librespot, the Open Source Spotify client library

librespot-golang

Introduction

librespot-golang is an opensource Golang library based on the librespot project, allowing you to control Spotify Connect devices, get metadata, and play music. It has itself been based on SpotControl, and its main goal is to provide a suitable replacement for the defunct libspotify.

This is still highly experimental and in development. Do not use it in production projects yet, as the API is incomplete and subject to heavy changes.

Installation

This package can be installed using:

git clone github.com/librespot-org/librespot-golang

or by using it as a dependency in your godep vendor file.

Usage

To use the package look at the example micro-controller (for Spotify Connect), or micro-client (for audio playback).

Building for mobile

The package librespotmobile contains bindings suitable for use with Gomobile, which lets you use a subset of the librespot library on Android and iOS.

To get started, install gomobile, and simply run (for Android):

cd /path/to/librespot-golang
export GOPATH=$(pwd)
gomobile init -ndk /path/to/android-ndk
gomobile bind librespotmobile

This will build you a file called librespotmobile.aar which you can include in your Android Studio project.

To-Do's

• Handling disconnections, timeouts, etc (overall failure tolerance)
• Playlist management
• Spotify Radio support