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Stefano Marinelli Feb 13, 2025

About a month ago, while talking with a colleague who had experience only with Linux, he mentioned that he knew of the BSDs but had never "had the courage" to try them. I suggested he give them a shot, reminding him not to think of BSDs as "just another Linux" but as entirely different operating systems. Focusing on security, I recommended OpenBSD - also mentioning HardenedBSD, sure it would pique his interest.

A few hours ago, he called me about something else and confirmed that for weeks now, he's been using OpenBSD on his laptop (disk encrypted), FreeBSD on two servers, and NetBSD on an embedded device at home. He plans to experiment with HardenedBSD and DragonflyBSD in the coming weeks.

However, he did have one complaint: we've known each other for five years, and I never encouraged him to try this earlier! 😀

#BSD #OpenBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #HardenedBSD #DragonflyBSD #Security #Tech #FOSS #RunBSD

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Gabe Saltar Feb 14, 2025

@stefano Hi. This past week I have been trying out Freebsd 14.2. Coming from a Linux background, I was able to get my laptop configured and running Freebsd no problems, until I realized I couldn't get #Spotifyd working. I even tried to get it working in Linux, and no luck over there either. If you have any ideas on how to get Spotify working in Freebsd, please share. Thanks.

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TomAoki Feb 14, 2025

@gabe_saltar @stefano
How did you try to install Spotidyd?
I myself don't use Spotify, so not sure they actually works or not, but searching "spotify" on https://www.freshports.org/, 4 results.
https://www.freshports.org/audio/spotifyd/
https://www.freshports.org/audio/spotify-player/
https://www.freshports.org/audio/spotify-qt/
https://www.freshports.org/audio/spotify-tui/

Each pages has informations about availabilities of pre-built (with default options) packages.

And for audio/spotifyd, looking into
https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/audio/spotifyd
there is files/spotifyd.in.
https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/audio/spotifyd/files/spotifyd.in
This file should be installed as /usr/local/etc/rc.d/spotifyd with some automatic replace on build or install (%%PREFIX%% in it should be replaced with actual place to be needed).
See line 8 to 16 for how to configure.

And note that even with the configurations, if you want it running before restarting the whole system, you would need `service spotifyd start`. See service (8) manpage for detailed usage of `service` command.

#FreeBSD #Spotify #FreshPorts

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Gabe Saltar Feb 16, 2025

@TomAoki @stefano Hello Gentlemen! So I went down the #Spotify #Freebsd rabbit hole... And these were my findings:

1) #librespot, & #spotifyd were the only #Spotify clients I was able to get to “work". | discovery mode only.

2) The #psst github project seems promising.

https://github.com/jpochyla/psstI

a) I built it & ran it successfully in Linux.

b) In bsd fails to build. Complains about not finding a git config file. Don't know how to fix that.

3) Ideas are welcome.

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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Feb 16, 2025

@gabe_saltar @TomAoki @stefano I gave up on spotifyd and installed shairport, which makes the FreeBSD machine appear as an AirPort speaker, so a phone can stream to it. Since we were using the phone to control it, this didn’t make much difference (except maybe to the phone’s battery life).

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Gabe Saltar

@david_chisnall @TomAoki @stefano
Spotifyd and Librespot, work in discovery mode. Which is exactly what you described as an AirPort speaker.

I was trying to build Psst from their source code provided in github, but it fails to build. Something about a git config file not been found. Please see the link below. FYI. They claim it is in WIP for OpenBSD.

https://github.com/eecs183finalprojects/psst2

GitHub - eecs183finalprojects/psst2: Fast and multi-platform Spotify client with native GUI

Fast and multi-platform Spotify client with native GUI - eecs183finalprojects/psst2

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