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How to play your Spotify music in Winamp and get Visualizatons

Spotiamp features a builtin Shoutcast® server, so you can easily stream the music to any device supporting Shoutcast, such as Sonos.

Download and install Winamp

I've installed version 5.8

https://www.winamp.com/

Download and setup Spotiamp

I used the installed ver, but it shouldn't matter if you want to use the stand-alone ver. When it prompts you to allow network access, select public and private networks so the windows firewall doesn't block your server port.

http://web.archive.org/web/20141208232737/http://spotiamp.com/

To get the Shoutcast servers's codec to work properly in Windows 10, you need to enable the codec in the registry.

  1. Open a cmd.exe window as Administrator
  2. Run the following 2 commands
reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\drivers.desc" /v "%SYSTEMROOT%\SysWOW64\l3codecp.acm" /t REG_SZ /d "Fraunhofer IIS MPEG Audio Layer-3 Codec (professional)" /f

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32" /v "msacm.l3acm" /t REG_SZ /d "%SYSTEMROOT%\SysWOW64\l3codecp.acm" /f

Now you can stream your spotify playlists via shoutcast. Just enable the Shoutcast server in the settings menu and press play in Spotiamp.

Open winamp and go to File->Open URL. The URL to play is: http://127.0.0.1:5010/play.pls. Replace 127.0.0.1 with the IP of your computer.

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@Oxzyyy
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Oxzyyy commented Feb 23, 2024

How do I check if firewall and my router are blocking port 5010?
Also i am on premium so its probably not that.

@raider3303
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Can you use this with wacup too?

@lucaoskaique
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lucaoskaique commented Mar 3, 2024

Got this error when press play button in winamp after URL was inserted
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@Araminta
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Araminta commented May 5, 2024

Works as of May 4 2024. Thx!

@leandrogrupozani
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install, log in on spotify, estart shoutcast, it read the add to playlist but i can open a playlist. how can i do it?

working, ty

@Bbenji3
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Bbenji3 commented May 17, 2024

Works! I'm new to computers and all that stuff so it took me awhile but I got it thanks to the simple instructions. Thanks!

@fukionline
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Can you use this with wacup too?

i'm pretty sure wacup is an entirely different program backend-wise, or at least intends to be in the end

@AitorCerecero
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Got Login error 35, used credentials of my Spotify Premium Account, any advise ?

@Tezzerract
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Yeah, it just says, "Error connecting to host." I'm 100% sure I'm putting in the correct URL, too, my computer IP and the rest of the template. If anyone could help, that would be great. Thank you!
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