At first the Python package Spotipy should be installed on your PC. In this step 10 album covers of each of your 60 most played artists on Spotify are automatically downloaded by a Python script I wrote. Step 2a: Automatically downloading album covers and Spotify URI's with a Python script This step is simpler but is a lot of work if you have to download multiple album covers manually, search for every URI yourself and copy and past them into the necessary.

Step 2b explains how you can obtain album covers and Spotify URI's manually without running Python scripts and installing Python packages.

csv file is needed in step 3 to write the NFC tags. csv file with all the Spotify URI's to the albums on Spotify. This script also automatically generates the necessary.

Step 2a explains how you can automatically download the album covers of your top artists in Spotify using a Python script I wrote.

There are two ways you can obtain the album covers and Spotify URI's: I did not have any album covers as all my music is streamed from Spotify so I downloaded the album covers with the Python script from step 2a and printed them as non-glare pictures at 10 cm x 10 cm.

(Optional) Album covers: you can use album covers you already have at home.

If you have no device to cast to, the music will simply start playing on your smartphone.

This project was written to be used with Spotify: a Spotify URI ( Uniform Resource Identifiers for sharing and locating artists, albums, searches, playlists and songs within the Spotify library) is written on a NFC tag and later on read by Automate to start playing music on Spotify (and possibly cast to your Chromecast).

Īutomate, a free android automation application to automate actions.

NFC TagWriter by NXP, a free android NFC writer application (Better buy some more as you can never have to many NFC tags at home) I bought mine in bulk from AliExpress (100 tags for about 10 $ ).

NFC tags: As many programmable tags as you have albums you want to display.

Open spotify music