Running spotifyd as a systemd service

As as a user service

A systemd.service unit file is provided to help run spotifyd as a service on systemd-based systems. The file contrib/spotifyd.service should be copied to either:

/etc/systemd/user/
~/.config/systemd/user/

Packagers of systemd-based distributions are encouraged to include the file in the former location. End-user should prefer the latter. It should be noted that some targets are not available when running under the user directory, such as network-online.target.

Control of the daemon is handed over to systemd. The following command will start the service whenever the user logs in to the system. Logging out will stop the service.

systemctl --user enable spotifyd.service --now

As a system wide service

A systemd.service unit file is provided to help run spotifyd as a service on systemd-based systems. The file contrib/spotifyd.service should be copied to:

/etc/systemd/system/

Control of the daemon is handed over to systemd. The following example commands will start the service and keep it running across reboots.

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable spotifyd.service --now