How to implement Spotify

Hi @Manatee19, welcome to the community.

Everything you’ve just described already exists on Sonos though one means or another. If you are looking to build your own controller app then I will point you in the direction of our Sonos Developer site that includes all the support and documention you need to integrate into the Sonos API. We also have a tag on Stack Overflow for any development questions.

I don’t know anything about about .NET but Python in conjunction with SoCo is very powerful.

Music playback is via UPnP, specifically AVTransport1.SetAVTransportURI. However the kicker is getting the correct url for a Spotify stream.

To do that you need to be a SMAPI client, and you can read about SMAPI at the link in the previous post.

However the real tricky bit is to get the user’s credentials from the Sonos system so you can authenticate with the Spotify SMAPI server. That requires you to decrypt the encrypted authentication data.

A few open source projects have avoided this problem by mixing the public Spotify API with UPnP, but this works with Spotify only (and maybe a couple of other services too). I am not aware of an open source project that includes the necessary decryption to work with every music service.

On the other hand playing a file from a USB stick is a lot more straight-forward. Just run a small web server and pass its url to SetAVTransportURI.

Actually I just need spotify and nothing else and the process of getting the secret and key (if they will be needed) will be done initially and manually by a technician, but after that it’s all dark. Im not sure If I need to get these keys: direct-control-authorize in order to control it. Or I can control it maybe just getting the spotify keys and somehow getting the songs-URI

I will take a look at it

Actually I dont want to create a full Controller I just want to retrieve the playlist of the user and play a song, nothing else. What do you think I need to accomplish this?
Thank you

What kind of playlist exactly? If you want to use a Sonos Playlist, you can do that using the well documented Sonos Cloud API. If you want a Spotify playlist then I would use SMAPI, but you can’t as you don’t have the required secrets. I’ve never looked at the Spotify API, but I think others have figured out how to get the urls from that into a form that a Sonos speaker will accept. Good luck.

The spotify playlist of the account linked using the sonos S1 App. Anyway I was able to get the token to send request using the API but when I tried to ask for households it return an empty list. Maybe is the ZP100 too old?

I am confused. What are you asking for Households exactly? Spotify??

Well I think I am. I was calling some random stuff in order to see if I will receive something and I understood that household is like the device.

My final goal is to be able to get the Spotify play lists and reproduce songs from them on my sonos device. Until now I was only able to get the auth token and now I can make all API calls, but I don't know which one can help me.