spotifyd
and spotify-tui
. After switching software, I have an extra half-gig of memory that isn’t being wasted running yet another instance of Chromium.spotifyd
d
in its name, for daemon) that will wait in the background and play music requested by whatever Spotify client we choose; in this case, spotify-tui
.spotifyd
installed. I’ve added it to Homebrew already, so if you need to get that set up first, go ahead.~/.config/spotifyd/spotifyd.conf
that specifies your login information and other details. You can read the full instructions, but I’ve annotated my own configuration here:vim
, or whatever text editor you prefer:spotifyd
.spotifyd
as just a plain app. After you run the following command, grant spotifyd
access to the macOS Keychain and Firewall in the pop up that appears:CTRL-C
to stop spotifyd
. Now we’ll use brew services
to to run spotifyd
in the background:spotifyd
show up in Spotify Connect, it worked!spotify-tui
spotify-tui
is how you’ll actually control spotifyd
by showing you playlists and giving you playback controls and so on. There’s not that much involved, as the app itself will give you instructions that you can follow quite easily.apt install spotifyd spotify-tui
followed by sudo systemctl start spotifyd
and see if that works ¯_(ツ)_/¯