# Spotify radio support

**URL:** <https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/spotify-radio-support/674>\
**Category:** Pi MusicBox (archive)\
**Created:** [April 9, 2015, 8:03am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/spotify-radio-support/674 "2015-04-09T08:03:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![timdp](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/timdp/32/137_2.png) [@timdp](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/timdp)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2015, 8:03am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/spotify-radio-support/674/1 "2015-04-09T08:03:08Z")

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Hi all,

We just set up Pi MusicBox on our RPi 2 at work, after some issues with vanilla Mopidy. It works great, but we’re big fans of the radio feature in Spotify (mainly artist radio). Unless I’m missing something, it doesn’t look like there’s a way to access it from the MusicBox UI. So, I guess my questions would be:

1. Is there a button I’m missing?
2. If not, is support for Spotify Radio planned?
3. If not, I assume I can still use a Mopidy frontend that does support it, even though I’m using Pi MusicBox?

Thanks!

Tim

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**Author:** ![kingosticks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/858c86/32.png) [@kingosticks](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/kingosticks)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2015, 9:24am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/spotify-radio-support/674/2 "2015-04-09T09:24:29Z")

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The Spotify radio features are not available in libspotify (which pyspotify+mopidy-spotify use) as they (Spotify) removed it and are focused on their web API.

I believe the mopify frontend supports radio (and many other Spotify-centric features via the web API) but the frontend currently only supports Spotify and you won’t be able to use it for controlling local/gmusic/soundcloud/whatever music. mopify isn’t compatible with the `static_dir` method of configuring a webclient so you need to fiddle around a bit. If you comment out the `static_dir` option in your settings that should then land you at the webclient selection page where you can choose mopify/musicbox-webclient/moped etc as you want. Making mopify the default is slightly trickier and probably depends on exactly what version of musicbox you are using. Making it simpler is a planned improvement.

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**Author:** ![timdp](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/timdp/32/137_2.png) [@timdp](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/timdp)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2015, 10:12am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/spotify-radio-support/674/3 "2015-04-09T10:12:05Z")

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Yeah, I seem to remember being able to use Spotify radio on our vanilla Raspbian + Mopidy + Mopify. However, we were getting audio stalls on our RPi 2, which prompted me to install Pi Musicbox in the first place. So the only real difference would be that I need to enable SSH, unset `static_dir` and use `pip` to install Mopify?

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**Author:** ![kingosticks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/858c86/32.png) [@kingosticks](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/kingosticks)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2015, 10:32am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/spotify-radio-support/674/4 "2015-04-09T10:32:23Z")

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Yes, although I think Mopify may already be installed, can’t remember.

I’m a bit surprised to hear of any audio issues with vanilla raspbian and  
Mopidy. Are you using a USB soundcard?

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**Author:** ![timdp](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/timdp/32/137_2.png) [@timdp](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/timdp)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2015, 11:32am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/spotify-radio-support/674/5 "2015-04-09T11:32:16Z")

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It’s already installed indeed. However, if I comment out `static_dir`, I get these options:

- kuechenradio
- moped
- settings
- simple-webclient
- sqlite

I guess it’s looking in the wrong dir now?

By the way, this is version 0.6 RC.

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**Author:** ![timdp](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/timdp/32/137_2.png) [@timdp](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/timdp)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2015, 11:34am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/spotify-radio-support/674/6 "2015-04-09T11:34:48Z")

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Oh, and we just have a vanilla RPi 2 without a USB soundcard.

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**Author:** ![timdp](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/timdp/32/137_2.png) [@timdp](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/timdp)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2015, 12:15pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/spotify-radio-support/674/7 "2015-04-09T12:15:35Z")

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Never mind. Looks like upgrading all mopidy\_\* packages and restarting the service again fixed it.

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**Author:** ![kingosticks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/858c86/32.png) [@kingosticks](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/kingosticks)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2015, 1:17pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/spotify-radio-support/674/8 "2015-04-09T13:17:40Z")

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So presumably you are now on Mopidy v1.0. Which is probably fine, but keep in mind  
that is beyond what Musicbox officially supports.

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**Author:** ![timdp](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/timdp/32/137_2.png) [@timdp](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/timdp)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2015, 3:17pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/spotify-radio-support/674/9 "2015-04-09T15:17:31Z")

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Yeah, it doesn’t seem very stable unfortunately.

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**Author:** ![jodal](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/jodal/32/2564_2.png) [@jodal](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/jodal)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2026, 11:47am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/spotify-radio-support/674/10 "2026-02-19T11:47:44Z")

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