2010-11-18, 09:40
I myself used https://github.com/akezeke/spotyxbmc to get it to work. Although I still have some issues, I find it do-able. Just a quick explanation of what u need to do, so that you understand the context.
Normally in XBMC there are all kinds of add-ons and scripts that can be dowloaded and installed with a single touch of a button. Unfortunately Spotify has a different kind of licence agreement and needs a key, that makes it harder to develop as an addon. Plus off course there must be people willing to develop such and addon. Akezeke for instance is willing, but rather waits until the new addon framework for xbmc is released that makes it possible to write add-ons in C++, rather than Python (Python is the current development language for addons).
So far the background. The steps mentioned on the website, basically contain the following:
- Download libspotify and install it. Libspotify is the API released by Spotify.
- Download sources of XBMC (the LiveCD contains the binaries that are built on those sources).
- Apply the batch from Akezeke to the downloaded XBMC source files. The patch integrates Spotify into XBMC and applies also your personal key. A personal key can only be obtained if you are a premium subscriber to Spotify. No premium subscription is no Spotify in XBMC.
- Compile the whole thing and install. The install will overwrite your XBMC executable, but your XBMC settings will remain untouched.
That's it.
Normally in XBMC there are all kinds of add-ons and scripts that can be dowloaded and installed with a single touch of a button. Unfortunately Spotify has a different kind of licence agreement and needs a key, that makes it harder to develop as an addon. Plus off course there must be people willing to develop such and addon. Akezeke for instance is willing, but rather waits until the new addon framework for xbmc is released that makes it possible to write add-ons in C++, rather than Python (Python is the current development language for addons).
So far the background. The steps mentioned on the website, basically contain the following:
- Download libspotify and install it. Libspotify is the API released by Spotify.
- Download sources of XBMC (the LiveCD contains the binaries that are built on those sources).
- Apply the batch from Akezeke to the downloaded XBMC source files. The patch integrates Spotify into XBMC and applies also your personal key. A personal key can only be obtained if you are a premium subscriber to Spotify. No premium subscription is no Spotify in XBMC.
- Compile the whole thing and install. The install will overwrite your XBMC executable, but your XBMC settings will remain untouched.
That's it.