Need to install dbus to run the daemon

[m3at]

Description
When following the Installation instructions on macOS, I got a core dump as dbus was not installed.
This is normal, but I think adding a line suggesting to run brew install dbus on macOS might be useful.

To Reproduce

1. Download the latest release on a mac were dbus has not yet been installed
2. Extract and run ./spotifyd --help

Expected behavior
(work as expected)

Logs

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% ./spotifyd --help dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/dbus/lib/libdbus-1.3.dylib Referenced from: /Users/paulelix/Downloads/./spotifyd Reason: image not found [1] 71816 abort (core dumped) ./spotifyd --help

Versions (please complete the following information):

• OS: macOS Mojave, 10.14.6
• Spotifyd: v0.2.24
• cargo: cargo 1.40.0 (bc8e4c8be 2019-11-22)

Suggested fix
Add a line such as:

On macOS, you might need to install dbus first with `brew install dbus`.

This is a very minor nitpick, I imagine most users of spotifyd would be able to find the issue by themselves in a few minutes anyway, so feel free to discard this issue.

[mainrs]

Which flavor did you download, full or slim?

[m3at]

I downloaded full: spotifyd-macos-full.tar.gz

[andrewkro]

I had the same as above (downloaded full on macos as well), but also needed to install portaudio

dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/portaudio/lib/libportaudio.2.dylib
  Referenced from: /Users/akroenert/Downloads/./spotifyd
  Reason: image not found
Abort trap: 6
$ brew install portaudio

[mainrs]

For macOS, portaudio is needed if you use the portaudio backend, I think rodio doesn't need it.

[jveiga]

Hi, I can't install it on macos Catalina 10.15.3
I tried compilling from tag v0.2.24
with portaudio 19.6.0 installed, I run spotifyd and it terminates with error code 0
with rodio, I see the same behaviour.
Let me know if I should create a separate issue Great project!

[mainrs]

Did you use cargo build --release --no-default-features --features "portaudio_backend"?
Termination with exit code 0 sounds good. By default spotifyd will fork itself and run in the background. You can pass down --no-daemon to prevent forking, which will display log output to stdout.

[mainrs]

Commenting on the original issue:
full has all optional features enabled, meaning that dbus_{keyring,mpris} are getting compiled. That's why you need dbus as well (see

spotifyd/.github/workflows/cd.yml

Line 21 in 9a4e5ba

feature: 'dbus_keyring,dbus_mpris' # Full version has all OS compatible features enabled

)

In theory MPRIS does work on macOS, but the media buttons on macOS do not send commands over the dbus. I was looking into adding this but couldn't find a rust library that allowed me to listen for keystrokes of those keys.

I'm open to removing the dbus_mpris feature flag from macOS full releases as they do not really serve functionality right now (at least none I am aware of). PR welcome.

[jveiga]

with --no-daemon, I managed to understand what was wrong 👍

[xartuu]

In theory MPRIS does work on macOS, but the media buttons on macOS do not send commands over the dbus. I was looking into adding this but couldn't find a rust library that allowed me to listen for keystrokes of those keys.

Any updates?
I'm not hiding the fact that this would be a key feature - controlling music with multimedia keys from the keyboard on MacBook.

[eladyn]

In theory, there are crates that offer cross-platform ways to offer media key handling (like souvlaki). Unfortunately, Windows as well as macOS seem to require an open window for media keys to work? Which obviously isn't a thing, we want to do with spotifyd.

But you have different ideas, how this could be achieved, I'm open to suggestions!