# librespot mit Homebrew, apk, Nix, pacman installieren Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für librespot in AI-Agent-Workflows. ## Installation ```sh sudo av install brew:librespot ``` Weitere Installationsbefehle: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install librespot ``` Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - apk (92%): ```sh sudo apk add librespot ``` Evidenz: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: librespot from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#librespot ``` Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/li/librespot/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - pacman (92%): ```sh sudo pacman -S librespot ``` Evidenz: Arch Linux sync databases: librespot from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz ## Paketfakten - **Paketschlüssel:** brew:librespot - **Paketmanager:** Homebrew - **Version:** 0.8.0 - **Quellzusammenfassung:** Open Source Spotify client library - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00 ## Executables - librespot (Alias) ## Installationsverhalten - Bottle: nicht verfügbar ## Version und Aktualität - Seite generiert: 2026-08-03 - Manager-Version: 0.8.0 ## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung librespot is an open source Rust client library and CLI for Spotify playback and Spotify Connect receiver use. It occupies the unofficial-client space left by Spotify's deprecated closed-source libspotify, with the important limitation documented by the project that it only supports Spotify Premium accounts. ### Projektgeschichte The GitHub repository was created on November 15, 2017. Its README describes the project as an open source client library that enables applications to use Spotify's service through multiple audio backends and act as a Spotify Connect receiver. The annotated v0.1.0 tag, dated November 6, 2019, is marked as the initial release. Subsequent releases through the 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, and 0.7 lines show the project evolving from a library experiment into a regularly packaged Rust command-line service used by headless speakers, embedded systems, and desktop integrations. ### Adoptionsgeschichte librespot gained package-manager adoption because it solved a specific problem: make a machine appear as a Spotify Connect speaker without running Spotify's full proprietary desktop client. Its Rust implementation, CLI packaging, multiple audio backends, and availability on crates.io made it attractive for small servers, single-board computers, appliance images, and music-player projects. The project remains sensitive to Spotify protocol changes because it interoperates with a proprietary service rather than a public stable protocol. That makes its release history interesting to maintainers: breakage often lands as authentication, API, metadata, or playback fixes rather than ordinary library feature work. ### Wie es verwendet wird The README documents cargo install librespot and a CLI invocation such as creating a named speaker with a bitrate setting. In packaged deployments it is commonly run as a background service with explicit backend, device name, bitrate, cache, and authentication options. ### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren librespot is package-nerd significant because it is both useful and inherently awkward: an open client for a proprietary streaming ecosystem, written in Rust, shipped as a CLI daemon, and dependent on reverse-engineered behavior. It is the sort of package that turns old speakers, Raspberry Pi boxes, NAS machines, and desktops into network audio endpoints. ### Zeitleiste - 2017-11-15: GitHub repository created. - 2019-11-06: v0.1.0 initial release tag dated. - 2021-05-04: v0.2.0 release published. - 2022-05-22: v0.4.0 release published. - 2024-10-15: v0.5.0 release published. - 2025-08-31: v0.7.1 release published. ### Related projects - Related projects include Spotify Connect clients, Mopidy integrations, pyspotify/libspotify-era applications, librespot-java, audio backends such as ALSA and PulseAudio, and service wrappers used by headless media appliances. ### Quellen - - - - - ## Sicherheitshinweise library-like package without higher-risk signals. - **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig - library-like package without higher-risk signals ## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge - Nix - librespot: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/li/librespot/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - apk - librespot - 0.8.0-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: librespot from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Open Source Spotify client library | https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot - apk - librespot-openrc - 0.8.0-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: librespot-openrc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Open Source Spotify client library (OpenRC init scripts) | https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot - pacman - librespot - 0.8.0-5: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: librespot from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Open source client library for Spotify | https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/librespot.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/librespot.yml) ## Quellen - pkg.so package database - Geiger risk classifier - curated package history - pkgdb category and tag curation - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph