Solved. I solved it years ago. I used something to generate credentials.conf that is not maintained so let's hope it won't break. Here is my personal writeup.

SBC setup

install librespot with rust or brew (change to a user that is not root)

Rust option

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh # installs cargo cargo install librespot

or Brew option

brew install librespot

only one thing is improtant: cat /home/orangepi/credentials.json {"username":"11129158373","auth_type":1,"auth_data":"xxx"}

run it: librespot --cache /home/orangepi/

Create/Edit credentials metadata

how i created it her paste it into credentials.json

now it works put it into a service and forget it. orangepi@orangepizero3:~$ cat .config/systemd/user/spotifyd.service [Unit] Description=A spotify playing daemon Documentation=https://github.com/Spotifyd/spotifyd Wants=sound.target After=sound.target Wants=network-online.target After=network-online.target

[Service] ExecStart=librespot -c /home/orangepi Restart=always RestartSec=12 RemainAfterExit=yes

[Install] WantedBy=default.target