If you as end user want to use the third party application you’ll have to tell Spotify that you grant this application access. Then he develops the application and installs it either on a device or as a web application on a server. The third party developer registers an application with the service provider. In this situation service providers usually use a security mechanism called OAuth. Third party means that it is not developed by the end user/ consumer nor Spotify. The idea is that third party software developers can develop new and cool applications which extend the Spotify functionality. Spotify allows you to get a lot of information and control the player over a service they call “ Web API“. So everything is clear, right? Well, the challenge just started. The touch screen should let me pause and play the song and to jump to the next or previous one in the current play list. The color display with touch screen should display the current position and total duration of the song. I wanted to implement this for the ESP8266 Color Display Kit so the hardware design was already clear. Once you understand all the possibilities you go on and design how your device should look like and what features it should initially have. Can you control Play And Pause? Can you display current progress of the song? Does the service allow you access additional information like cover art? Once you managed the security aspects you have to find out what you can actually do with the application programming interface (API) offered by the service. Services like Spotify usually (hopefully) use some kind of security to allow only permitted users to control your player. First of all you have to find out if and how you can control the Spotify player over the network. It involves several interesting aspects of modern connected systems. Order now in our shop!īuilding a remote control for a service like Spotify is a fine engineering challenge. Order Now on Amazon US and have it at your door steps by tomorrow! Maybe some cover art too and display it on a color display! It can’t be THAT hard, right? This post explains the challenges I faced when implementing the ESP8266 Spotify remote and how I solved them. Then every few seconds it downloads information about the currently played song. You quickly draw up a mental design in your head: a ESP8266 based device connects over the net to Spotify. Do you know this situation: you are listening to a playlist from Spotify on your stereo but just can’t figure out who is singing that song? Since you are sitting comfortably on your couch (too far away from your stereo) you think how this problem could be solved with some clever engineering.

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