Spotipi Currently Playing

Introduction

This web application displays the album art for your currently played song on spotify. There are basic playback controls that are shown when the album cover is pressed.

I wrote this project so that I could have the music that I am listening to displayed on a raspberry pi display. This will work on any device that can run python 3 - not just a raspberry pi.

This project uses python's Flask web framework and queries the Spotipi API.

Screenshots

New features

There is now a new variable called "experimental_pi_display_mode". When this is set to true, the server's HDMI display will be disabled if there are no tracking currently playing (and enabled when a track is playing). This has been implemented so that a Raspberry Pi can always be connected to a monitor and only display information when it needs to. LEAVE THIS AS FALSE IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND IT.

Setup

Prerequisites

• You must have a spotify dev account (this is free for non comercial projects)
• Make a new project in the spotify dev online dashboard
• Flask python package should be installed using pip: pip install flask
• Create an envrionment variables (as shown below)

Environment

• Create a file called load_dotenv.py
• Inside this file include the following (be sure to replace the values in capital letters):

import os

def load_dotenv():
    os.environ['FLASK_APP'] = 'app'
    os.environ['FLASK_ENV'] = 'development'  # This is only while debugging as developing
    os.environ['SPOTIPY_CLIENT_ID'] = CLIENT_ID  # This can be found on the spotify dev dashboard
    os.environ['SPOTIPY_CLIENT_SECRET'] = CLIENT_SECRET  # This can be found on the spotify dev dashboard
    os.environ['SPOTIPY_REDIRECT_URI'] = 'http://localhost:5000'  # This MUST be added to the spotify dev dashboard in the project settings