BalenaSound free alternative to Spotify Connect

I have used BalenaSound successfully for some time now, and it’s breathed fresh life into my old music system – mission accomplished :slight_smile:

In general I’m am looking to move away from as many unnecessary subscriptions as possible, and this means it’s now time for Spotify to go.

For an alternative, I’m thinking something that can be loaded with RSS feeds; for things like podcasts, and other various internet radio feeds, which I can then click-to-play. It needs to play headless, without the requirement of another device streaming to it, and the ability to be controlled remotely on various devices. Essentially I would like a free alternative to Spotify Connect.

Any ideas on this one?

Answering my, I think mopidy might be something I could use. GitHub - wernight/docker-mopidy: Containerized Mopidy MPD (Music Player Daemon) along with Spotify, Google Music... plugins. … fingers crossed.

Oh snap! Well, that was quick.

[main]     W: GPG error: https://apt.mopidy.com buster InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 78FD980E271D2943
[main]     E: The repository 'https://apt.mopidy.com buster InRelease' is not signed.

[Error]    Some services failed to build:
[Error]      Service: main
[Error]        Error: The command '/bin/sh -c set -ex  && curl -L https://apt.mopidy.com/mopidy.gpg | apt-key add -  && curl -L https://apt.mopidy.com/mopidy.list -o /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mopidy.list  && apt-get update  && DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y         mopidy         mopidy-soundcloud         mopidy-spotify  && apt-get purge --auto-remove -y         gcc  && apt-get clean  && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/* /var/tmp/* ~/.cache' returned a non-zero code: 100

Hi,

Can you share what steps are you following for the installation? I see the official doc pointing to importing GPG key: Debian/Ubuntu — Mopidy 3.4.1-2-ge245adbc documentation

I cloned this GitHub - wernight/docker-mopidy: Containerized Mopidy MPD (Music Player Daemon) along with Spotify, Google Music... plugins. and ran balena push <user>/<fleet>.

Hi n1md4,

I have tried building this project locally too, and I experience the same issue (docker build .). Have you raised an issue with the maintainer?

I have not. In the meantime though, I have decided the Spotify service is worth the cost, so unsure if I will revisit this issue any time soon. Thank you for testing though.