Setting Up Mopidy, Ncmpcpp, and Spotify on Debian Buster (Updated)

  In Debian Buster, the main thing that caused me problems was that I had mpd installed, and it caused havic with, but once I uninstalled it, things started working. Here is the breakdown of what I did:

Add the archive’s GPG key: 

wget -q -O - https://apt.mopidy.com/mopidy.gpg | sudo apt-key add - 

Add the APT repo to your package sources: 

sudo wget -q -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mopidy.list https://apt.mopidy.com/buster.list 

Install Mopidy and all dependencies: 

 
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mopidy ncmpcpp mopidy-mpd mopidy-spotify

There are two configuration files that need to be adjusted. 

First, there is the Mopidy configuration file: ~/.config/mopidy/mopidy.conf

Here is my configuration file:

[logging]
color = true
console_format = %(levelname)-8s %(message)s
debug_format = %(levelname)-8s %(asctime)s [%(process)d:%(threadName)s] %(name)s\n  %(message)s
debug_file = mopidy.log
config_file =

[audio]
output = tee name=t t. ! queue ! autoaudiosink t. ! queue ! audioresample ! audioconvert ! audio/x-raw$

[local]
enabled = true
library = json
media_dir = ~/Media

[spotify]

enabled = true

username =  

password =

client_id =

client_secret =

bitrate = 320

You put your username and password, above as requested under the Spotify section. Then you need to now go to https://www.mopidy.com/authenticate/ to get your client_id and client_secret.

Finally, you need to edit (or create) the following ncmpcpp configuration file in order for visualizations to work ~/.ncmpcpp/config

Here is what I have in mine (replace "password" with your user password):

mpd_host = "password@localhost"
mpd_port = "6610"
visualizer_fifo_path = "/tmp/mpd.fifo"
visualizer_output_name = "my_fifo"
visualizer_sync_interval = "30"
visualizer_in_stereo = "yes"
visualizer_type = "spectrum"
visualizer_look = "+|"

Most Used Shortcut Keys for Ncmpcpp

• 1 - Current playlist
• 2 - Filesystem browser
• 3 - DB search
• 4 - Library
• 5 - Playlist editor
• 6 - Tag editor
• 7 - Output selector
• 8 - Music visualizer
• = - Clock
• F1 - Help

Other UI keys

• q - Quit
• f - Seek forward
• b - Seek backward
• \ - Switch between classic and alternative views
• i - Show song info
• I - Show artist info (saved in ~/.ncmpcpp/artists/ARTIST.txt)
• L - Shuffle between available lyric databases
• l - Retrieve song lyrics for current song Show/hide lyrics
• > - Next track
• < - Previous track
• p - Play/Pause
• a - Add item to playlist
• S - Save playlist
• c - Clear playlist
• r - Toggle repeat mode
• z - Toggle random mode
• + - Increase volume 2%
• - - Decrease volume 2%

Additional Backend Extensions:

mopidy-scrobbler - sudo apt install mopidy-scrobbler

[scrobbler]
enabled = true
username = your_username
password = your_password

mopidy-soundclound - sudo apt-get install mopidy-soundcloud

[soundcloud]
enabled = true
explore_songs = 25
auth_token =[go to https://www.mopidy.com/authenticate/ to get it]

mopidy-youtube - I had trouble getting this one to work using the repositories. I had to use 'pip' instead:

sudo apt-get install python-pip [if you don't already have it installed]
sudo pip install --upgrade pafy
sudo pip install --upgrade mopidy-youtube 

mopidy-tunein - Install: sudo apt-get install mopidy-tunein  Then modify ~.config/mopidy/mopidy.conf by adding the following lines:

[tunein]
timeout = 5000

mopidy-internetarchive -

mopidy-somafm - sudo apt-get install mopidy-somafm

That's it!

mopidy-podcast -