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The Background Daemon

Spotiline runs a background daemon that manages your Spotify connection.

Starting the Daemon

spotiline daemon start

The daemon:

  • Connects to Spotify Web API
  • Listens on 127.0.0.1:47836 for IPC commands
  • Runs in the background until stopped

Stopping the Daemon

spotiline daemon stop

Auto-Start Behavior

When you launch the TUI (spotiline with no args), it automatically starts the daemon if it’s not running.

Logs

Daemon logs are written to:

  • Linux: ~/.local/state/spotiline/spotiline.log
  • macOS: ~/Library/Logs/spotiline/spotiline.log
  • Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%\spotiline\logs\spotiline.log