Where to get the app key?

[billyschmidt]

The link is dead not sure where to get spotify_appkey.key from anymore?

Let me know if there's any issue with this link. https://github.com/richardk80/spotify-appkey/raw/master/spotify_appkey.key

[Avinguda21]

What format is this? Can't be read!

@Avinguda21 There's nothing wrong with that file. It's probably your .spotify-ripper folder. You have to fix your folder permissions when you first install spotify-ripper. What you could do is just delete the .spotify-ripper folder, and create a new one, then put your config.ini and this spotify_appkey.key file in it.

[Avinguda21]

Thanks.
Before I go any further ... does this install work? My first issue following the ubuntu install instructions is that libspotify doesn't download.

@Avinguda21 Let me know if you have an issue downloading this. https://github.com/richardk80/libspotify/raw/master/libspotify-12.1.51-Linux-x86_64-release.tar.gz

[Avinguda21]

Thanks again.
I'll try it. But already problem 2! I tried to set up pyenv (using the auto-installer). It seemed to install okay, but ended by saying some lines had to be added to .bashrc. I can't find that file anywhere. (even with show hidden files turned on).

@Avinguda21 Don't worry about using pyenv.
Just follow these directions:
sudo apt-get install lame build-essential libffi-dev git python-dev python-setuptools
tar xvf libspotify-12.1.51-Linux-x86_64-release.tar.gz
cd libspotify-12.1.51-Linux-x86_64-release/
sudo make install prefix=/usr/local
git clone https://github.com/hbashton/spotify-ripper.git && cd spotify-ripper && sudo python setup.py install

[Avinguda21]

ok! I'll give it a try later today.
But what about the other prerequisites?
Thanks

@Avinguda21 If you're just gonna be making mp3 files with this, you should be set. That's why you installed lame. If you're gonna be making any other files like m4a or flac, then it will let you know if you need to install those codecs. Just follow the instructions I gave you and you'll be good.

[Avinguda21]

okay so no need for pyspotify ?

[Avinguda21]

Okay. Got this far:

brian@brian-mint:~/libspotify-12.1.51-Linux-x86_64-release$ git clone https://github.com/hbashton/spotify-ripper.git && cd spotify-ripper && sudo python setup.py
Cloning into 'spotify-ripper'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 1883, done.
remote: Total 1883 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 1883
Receiving objects: 100% (1883/1883), 459.75 KiB | 785.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (1300/1300), done.
usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
or: setup.py --help-commands
or: setup.py cmd --help

error: no commands supplied
brian@brian-mint:~/libspotify-12.1.51-Linux-x86_64-release/spotify-ripper$ install
install: missing file operand
Try 'install --help' for more information.

So what now?

@Avinguda21 Try this: git clone https://github.com/hbashton/spotify-ripper.git && cd spotify-ripper && sudo python setup.py install. I left out the install part at the end. My bad.

Pyspotify will be installed for you when you run the commands above^

[Avinguda21]

Worked!

Now back to earlier message about the location of the spotify key ...

and read up about the config file

will report back. thanks for all the help

The spotify_appkey.key file goes into the .spotify-ripper folder. Where your config.ini file is located.