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A spotify-powered alarm clock on my raspberry pi.

Hack at Music Hack Stockholm 2013.

Getting started with playing Spotify on your Pi. (Won't give you an alarm clock…)

Things you need

SD card (min. 4GB recommended)
a mini speaker or headphones
Spotify Premium subscription (Unlimited is, ironically, not enough)
(if you're on a Macbook Air, don't forget your Ethernet USB adapter)

Prepare the OS and connect

Download the "soft-float" debian http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads
Copy the image onto your SD card http://elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup
Connect the Pi to your laptop via the ethernet cable http://interlockroc.org/2012/12/06/raspberry-pi-macgyver/ (I'd skip setting up VNC, you can do that later when you really need it)
ssh into your Pi (user: pi, password: raspberry)

Check sound is working

Plug in your speaker or headphones
aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav should play a voice saying "front, center"
alsamixer is useful for turning volume up & down
Any sound issues, look here: http://elinux.org/R-Pi_Troubleshooting#Sound

Play a Spotify playlist

Get Mopidy (http://www.mopidy.com/), installation guide: http://docs.mopidy.com/en/latest/installation/raspberrypi/#how-to-for-debian-7-wheezy
Start the mopidy server with mopidy
Control it with mpc, which you get via apt: apt-get install mpc
There's also ncmpcpp, a ncurses UI, which can help test your setup.