Unfortunately, all the ones I know of are abandoned or can't be used. It's a fully capable, as far as I know, reverse-engineered Spotify client. For those of us who could care less, however, there's a bigger problem: librespot is written in Rust. This isn't as big of a deal as if it was written in Python, or Node, or in fact most other languages. Rust and C++ both compile to native code and can, in theory, interface with each other. As far as I know, this has to be done manually, going through and writing an interface yourself - though there's some projects like and which could make it easier. Further research is required. First, I'm not the developer of this plugin! The real developer abandoned it in 2011, and the updates to libspotify, foobar2000, and Windows in the interim left the plugin broken. I did fix it up, but pretty much all I did was update the libraries involved and update the project for Visual Studio 2015. The true credit goes to Chris West for creating the plugin. Secondly, This plugin will almost certainly not survive the year. As I mention in this article, Spotify has discontinued Libspotify, and states that it will be shut down some point this year. It hasn't happened yet, and for all I know it could happen at the end of the year, but this plugin's days are numbered. Our only hope is that Spotify claims that they'll be releasing a replacement desktop API to replace Libspotify. This hasn't happened yet, and it might not happen before Libspotify is shut down. But as far as I know, there's nothing anyone who doesn't work at Spotify can do about this. Finally, I've added a link to a fork of my fork of a fork of the original project. This fork is by a far more experienced foobar2000 developer than I, and it's probably what you're going to want to go with. This developer also recognizes that this plugin may be a lost cause thanks to Spotify's poor API management, but at least there's album art now! End of update Spotify recently , meaning the lyrics feature of Spotify has been removed. I can get lyrics anywhere I want, but how am I going to get lyrics synced to the songs I'm playing in Spotify? Their web API doesn't expose any features for this. MPRIS was a dead-end - it's only for the Spotify client on Linux, and it's barely supported and possibly not working at that. So there's no way that I could find of retrieving song details from their native client - and my only other option was finding a way to play Spotify on a different client that has better plugin support. My first stop was foobar2000, a music player almost legendary for the amount of customization it offers. And, lucky enough, there's already. Just one major problem: it hasn't been updated in almost five years, and it crashes foobar2000 when you launch it. Good news: I got it working, and you can do it too! You will need a Spotify premium account for this. Though it's pretty recent, they've already made a lot of improvements and it's clear they've got a greater handle on foobar2000 component development than I do. Click apply, restart, and head on down to Usage! The Hard Way Don't trust me? But you're going to need to get yourself a copy of Visual Studio 2015 don't worry, it's free. Once you've done that, you'll need to download the latest foobar2000 SDK, found. Extract it into the foobar-sdk folder in the source code you just downloaded, so that the sdk-readme. Now, you'll need to download the libspotify binary. Here's a problem: you can't download it anymore! Since the Spotify apparently doesn't understand the benefit of allowing third party developers to extend your service, they've discontinued libspotify, removed all downloads, and haven't provided a direct replacement. Don't worry, though, the Internet Archive is here to save what jerk developers won't. If you head over to the , you can download the most recent binaries. You'll be looking for the third on the list, the Win32 libspotify binary. Now you're ready to get compiling! For whatever reason, the solution doesn't seem to compile correctly, at least for me. So you're going to need to do a bit of project reconfiguration. Put this path in the same place you put the path to the Windows SDK remember to include a semicolon between the paths! Here's one more thing you might need to do - I'm not sure. If it doesn't work, you could try changing the API key in key-930. You can get an API key. I'm not sure if you need to do this, as I replaced the API key with mine when I downloaded it. Now, it should build correctly. Take a spotify URI from the official client, like spotify:track:5IRkM1WyCMDXPnabEeqz5i or spotify:user:communistpancake:playlist:2jYKvcXFolpUexOaOX3r7h. This should add the track s to your playlist. You can also search using spotify:search:, like spotify:search:dead kennedys. This will add the first twenty results to your playlist, which isn't the best way to search - I recommend using the official client or the web client and just copying the URLs. The first time you use the API, it'll ask you for your Spotify credentials, which are saved securely to the Windows credential store. Remember - you need a Spotify premium account for this! Lyrics Right - the original purpose of this. What I found was the best is to just download , which displays a pane with lyrics synced to the song's current position. It looks for local lyrics though, so it's only useful with , which fetches lyrics from a variety of sources. Good luck, and have fun!
