Building Despotify on Ubuntu

Despotify is out, here’s how to build and run it on Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libvorbis-dev libpulse-dev libexpat1-dev libncurses5-dev
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/despotify/despotify-r761.tar.gz?use_mirror=freefr
tar xvf despotify-r761.tar.gz
cd despotify-r761/
make
./despotify

Now enjoy your text based GUI

Despotify GUI

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Sam Says:
February 25th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Did you get it still working…
I changed revision number which it sends to spotify server to current revision used in Windows client to stop it sendint upgrade when logging in. I can now login and browse songs but when i try to play something it crashes..
Niklas Says:
February 25th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Same luck for me, I’m assuming they’ve made some changes to the protocol. I don’t have the cycles to fully debug it right now but I assume #hack.se will release a new version.
Despotify en Ubuntu | Netbur Says:
March 5th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
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jorgenpt Says:
March 22nd, 2009 at 5:14 pm
svn co https://despotify.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/despotify/src despotify && cd despotify
jorgenpt Says:
March 22nd, 2009 at 5:17 pm
This should say the following, to use the newest version of despotify.

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libvorbis-dev libexpat1-dev libncursesw5-dev gstreamer0.10-plugins-base libgstreamer0.10-dev libtool

svn co https://despotify.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/despotify/src despotify
cd despotify/
make && ./clients/despotify/despotify
jorgenpt Says:
March 22nd, 2009 at 5:23 pm
Very sorry about the doublepost, and there’s also a missing dependency on that list: gstreamer0.10-plugins-base SHOULD say libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 (see http://despotify.se for updated list)

Kindest regards, J�rgen.
cros13 Says:
March 23rd, 2009 at 12:59 am
I’ve been using despotify for quite a while. Nice to have a native client. Running Spotify in WINE is all well and good but native is better.

Access via despotify is for premium users only now.
I signed up just for despotify access.
Richard Cooke Says:
July 27th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
When trying to compile the despotify client using the latest version cecked out from SVN I get the following:

richard@ubuntu:~/despotify/src$ make -s -C clients/despotify -f local.mk
CC commands.c
commands.c: In function �command_process�:
commands.c:102: error: �for� loop initial declaration used outside C99 mode
make: *** [commands.o] Error 1
richard@ubuntu:~/despotify/src$ make -s -C clients/despotify -f local.mk
CC commands.c
commands.c: In function �command_process�:
commands.c:102: error: �for� loop initial declaration used outside C99 mode
make: *** [commands.o] Error 1
richard@ubuntu:~/despotify/src$

Does anyone have any idea what’s wrong?

Thanks,

Richard
Richard Cooke Says:
July 30th, 2009 at 9:09 am
I managed to fix this problem by adding -std=gnu99 to the CCFLAGS in local.mk in the clients/despotify directory.

However, I now have another problem:

../../lib/libdespotify.la: file not recognized: File format not recognized

I think this may be because I am building on 64 bit Ubuntu.

I added the -m32 flag which seemed to fix this problem to a point. The problem now is:

`aes.lo’ is not a valid libtool object

Any light that anyone can shed on this would be very much appreciated.

Thanks,

Richard
Staffan Jonsson Says:
August 1st, 2009 at 9:52 pm
@ Richard

I’m a newbie, so I really can’t help you.. But take a little chat with the people here:

http://chat.efnet.org/irc.cgi?chan=%23despotify

I’m sure they will sort things out.
Good luck
/ Staffan
oliver Says:
August 2nd, 2009 at 12:33 pm
i cant get despotify to work i get the following message – any thoughtss…
regards
oliver

oliver@ubuntu:/despotify-r761$ ./despotify xxxxxx xxxxxx

despotify by #hack.se (W0RLD D0M1N4T10N ’08/09 @!#$@!$)
— a free, open, crossplatform Spotify-compatible client

read_server_initial_packet(): Status was 0x01, substatus 0x01: Client upgrade required
read_server_initial_packet(): remote host is grace.lon.spotify.com:4070
read_server_initial_packet, upgrade packet:
4f1b4c50c3afcab4 719506dea02dbe59 6bc500f28899dfff 29ac550441435583 [O?LP????q????-?Yk???????)?U?ACU?]
8906489c1e365cb6 49f71ad329915b6f fa03fb30a3d265fc c84a181a098e223c [??H??6\?I???)?[o???0??e??J????”?o???`???]
d3ed2ffca4b186e7 bf1916538b3e513a 5514e5e14ec34e9a 890120c3d4fd92a3 [??/????????S?>Q:U???N?N??? ?????]
de8dc40a14c1806e 919b37e55d28dfb6 82d8fb43539813f8 c5b845cc59032b45 [???????n??7?](?????CS?????E?Y?+E]
95f3594c5c00ecc8 013fb9cd52e43b22 aadd1fee24eeb79a 13dd6afda917d24e [??YL\???????R?;”????$?????j????N]
e00f025a88b9bcfb cb9900af68747470 3a2f2f7570677261 64652e73706f7469 [???Z????????http://upgrade.spoti]
66792e6e65742f75 7067726164652f63 6c69656e742f7769 6e33322d7838362f [fy.net/upgrade/client/win32-x86/]
73706f746966792d 74657374696e672e 35303531322e6578 653f757365726e61 [spotify-testing.50512.exe?userna]
6d653d6f64616c74 6f6e266b65793d33 3936323433646530 3966353262643635 [me=xxxxxx&key=396243de09f52bd65]
6134323963366330 6333386466346439 3939396331646326 686f73743d677261 [a429c6c0c38df4d9999c1dc&host=gra]
63652e6c6f6e2e73 706f746966792e6e 6574267069643d33 383931 [ce.lon.spotify.net&pid=3891]
Upgrade URL:
http://upgrade.spotify.net/upgrade/client/win32-x86/spotify-testing.50512.exe?username=xxxxxxx&key=396243de09f52bd65a429c6c0c38df4d9999c1dc&host=grace.lon.spotify.net&pid=3891
* Shutting down gracefully
oliver@ubuntu:/despotify-r761$
oliver Says:
August 3rd, 2009 at 3:06 pm
I downloaded the new client from subversion and remade it – i get the client now but i am unable to search..

Username : xxxxxx
Country : GB
Account type : free
Account expiry : Thu Jan 1 01:00:00 1970
Host : diana.lon.spotify.com:4070
Last ping : Mon Aug 3 15:59:44 2009

=================================================
N O T I C E
You do not have a premium account.
Spotify services will not be available.
=================================================

Available commands:

list [num] List stored playlists
rename [num] [string] Rename playlist
collab [num] Toggle playlist collaboration

search [string] Search for [string] or get next 100 results
artist [num] Show information about artist for track [num]
album [num] List album for track [num]
uri [string] Display info about Spotify URI
portrait [num] Save artist portrait to portrait.jpg

play [num] Play track [num] in the last viewed list
playalbum [num] Play album for track [num]
next Play next track in the current list
stop, pause, resume Control playback

info Details about your account and current connection
help This text
quit Quit

> search dpe
Search failed: Error when searching

> search beach;
Search failed: Error when searching

> search
No previous search

> artist
usage: artist [num]

> uri
st is a invalid Spotify URI

> next
No list to play from. Use ‘list’ or ‘search’ to select a list.

> ‘search’ test

help ….
paatos Says:
August 22nd, 2009 at 8:34 pm
Yeah, despotify from subversion cannot search.

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