Options

Type	Short	Long	Description	Hint
Option	c	cache	Path to a directory where files will be cached.	CACHE
Option		system-cache	Path to a directory where system files (credentials, volume) will be cached. Can be different from cache option value.	SYSTEM_CACHE
Flag		disable-audio-cache	Disable caching of the audio data.
Required	n	name	Device name	NAME
Option		device-type	The displayed device type in Spotify clients. Can be unknown, computer, tablet, smartphone, speaker, tv, avr (Audio/Video Receiver), stb (Set-Top Box), and audiodongle. Defaults to speaker	DEVICE_TYPE
Option	b	bitrate	Bitrate (96, 160 or 320). Defaults to 160	BITRATE
Option		onevent	The path to a script that gets run when one of librespot's events is triggered.	PROGRAM
Flag	v	verbose	Enable verbose output	PROGRAM
Option	u	username	Username to sign in with	USERNAME
Option	p	password	Password	PASSWORD
Flag		disable-discovery	Disable discovery mode
Option		backend	Audio backend to use. Use '?' to list options	BACKEND
Option		device	Audio device to use. Use '?' to list options (Only with the rodio/portaudio/alsa backends)	DEVICE
Option		format	Output format (F32, S32, S24, S24_3 or S16). Defaults to S16	FORMAT
Option		mixer	Mixer to use (softvol/alsa)	MIXER
Option		mixer-name	alsa mixer name e.g PCM or Master. Defaults to PCM	MIXER_NAME
Option		mixer-card	alsa mixer card, e.g hw:0 or similar from aplay -l. Defaults to default	MIXER_CARD
Option		mixer-index	alsa mixer index, Index of the cards mixer. Defaults to 0	MIXER_INDEX
Option		initial-volume	Initial volume in %, once connected [0-100]	VOLUME
Flag		enable-volume-normalisation	Enables volume normalisation for librespot
Option		normalisation-method	Specify the normalisation method to use - [basic, dynamic]. Default is dynamic.	NORMALISATION_METHOD
Option		normalisation-gain-type	Specify the normalisation gain type to use - [track, album]. Default is album.	GAIN_TYPE
Option		normalisation-pregain	A numeric value for pregain (dB). Only used when normalisation active.	PREGAIN
Option		normalisation-threshold	Threshold (dBFS) to prevent clipping. Default is -1.0.	THRESHOLD
Option		normalisation-attack	Attack time (ms) in which the dynamic limiter is reducing gain. Default is 5.	ATTACK
Option		normalisation-release	Release or decay time (ms) in which the dynamic limiter is restoring gain. Default is 100.	RELEASE
Option		normalisation-knee	Knee steepness of the dynamic limiter. Default is 1.0.	KNEE
Option		volume-ctrl	[linear, log, fixed] Choose between a logarithmic (default), linear, or fixed volume scaling.
Flag		disable-gapless	Disables gapless playback by forcing the sink to close b/w tracks
Flag		autoplay	Autoplay similar songs when your music ends
Option		zeroconf-port	The port that the HTTP server advertised on zeroconf will use [1-65535]. Ports <= 1024 may require root priviledges.
Option		proxy	Use a proxy for resolving the access point. Proxy should be an HTTP proxy in the form http://ip:port, and can also be passed using the all-lowercase http_proxy environment variable.
Option		passthrough	output raw Ogg data to stdout (needs pipe backend)