spotify-kidsplayer

Goal

This will be a simplified UI for kids to use spotify.

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Get it

git clone https://github.com/seekwhencer/spotify-kidsplayer.git

Ingredients

• Raspberry Pi 4
• Desktop Image
• spotifyd - An open source headless Spotify client.
• mariadb - From linuxserver
• phpMyAdmin - From linuxserver
• Docker and Docker Compose

Docs

• Setup
• Database
• spotify
• spotifyd
• Server
• Frontend

Developed and tested on a Raspberry Pi 4 with 8 GB ram

Features

• using spotify API
• get automatically all albums, album-tracks from an artist when adding them
• storing artists, artist albums and album tracks in a local database
• storing images locally
• using text to speech to read titles and names
• set the album type to audiobook, music or podcast
• set album as favorite (like)
• hide / drop unwanted albums
• browse artists and albums
• play automatically the next album from a filtered album list
• setup ui
• setup toggle parent mode = edit mode with PIN
• setup add artist
• hide artist and album options when parent mode is off
• hide disabled albums, show disabled albums in parent mode
• clean database endpoint at api/clean - that drops all empty and lost artists, albums and tracks
• edit artist (name, image)
• edit album (name, image, artist)
• start playing album from album overview
• translation / localisation
• configure spotifyd per setup ui
• icons speak page (home)
• restarting spotifyd on server start

Roadmap

Todo

• exit parent mode in setup tab
• loading indicator when adding artist (future request: with one by one output via websockets)
• one play button on album view

Feature requests

• reorder (change position) the albums per drag and drop
• album view with other albums as list or prev / next image
• drop artist recursive with images
• drop album recursive with images
• bundling the app as binary (actually not working, because

Bugs / Refactoring

• artist modal as class