Recently, using the Spotify Connect service has become complicated, if not impossible, for some users of high-end legacy streaming devices. This is due to changes in Spotify’s SDK and Spotify’s exclusivity policy regarding the latter.
This situation has worsened with the release of lossless streams at the end of 2025, which has rendered many older integrations that were previously supported obsolete.
In addition, on user forums, some have complained about the unreliability of the service with certain routers where the mDNS protocol was more or less well supported.
Thanks to Spotycast, you can now transform any headless docker capable machine into a proper audio bridge to serve spotify stream in your local network.
Spotycast provides a headless Spotify Connect endpoint to the server, which captures the loopback output and transforms it into a clean network stream (Icecast). This stream is ideal for feeding Roon, LMS, network players, or any device capable of reading a web radio URL that does not (or no longer) natively support the Spotify Connect service.
Two editions :
Free version: Standard installation, stable .mp3 or .aac stream up to 320 kbps, lossy audio quality.
Premium version:Advanced features with FLAC HD streaming >800 kbps, lossless audio quality, and update / rollback support. *
