When David started this project the goal was to get Spotify into XBMC via the libspotify API. The result was released as a teaser video a couple of days ago. Some people have however requested, on various forums, an implementation using another API, namely the libopenpotify (http://github.com/noahwilliamsson/openspotify) based on despotify.

The project goal has therefore changed somewhat and is now to make the implementations on Linux and Windows as well as Mac systems. Although the libopenspotify is an excellent initiative it is not yet fully functional (e. g. you can not yet play an actual song from Spotify) and David will therefore prioritize to get the build based on libspotify ready for alpha release.

The work with spotxbmc is now taking some important steps towards the alpha release. The possibility to play your Spotify playlists is as of today implemented and David is now polishing the code for stability.

A working build for Windows is also reality (see the pictures posted below) and as soon as libopenspotify has implemented the feature of actually playing songs there will be an alpha release for Windows systems as well.

Some questions have risen about this project and we are inclined to try to clear some of the fog:

Q: Will Spotify in XBMC work with free Spotify accounts?

A: No. All use of applications using the libspotify or libopenspotify API:s demands a premium Spotify account. This is a decision taken by Spotify and is not something we can influence.

Q: The guitar seen in background in the teaser movie, have you done it yourselves?

A: No. It is included in the XBMC standard skin Confluence. It is nice thou.

Q: Is this legal?

A: It sure is. The libspotify API is released by Spotify and they have not showed any aggression towards the despotify code (upon which libopenspotify is based) other than demanding premium accounts from them using implementations built using libopenspotify.