Spotify Authentication failing 'BadCredentials'

Hey all,

So I’ve been enjoying balena sound so far, but I keep running into a problem with authentication with spotify. I add the credentials like directed however when ever it attempts to run from the command line it just doesn’t like to authenticate. Here is what I see:

[2020-04-01T03:17:54Z INFO  librespot_core::session] Connecting to AP "guc3-accesspoint-b-45pt.ap.spotify.com:4070"
thread 'main' panicked at 'Authentication failed with reason: BadCredentials', /Users/admin/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/librespot-core-0.1.1/src/connection/mod.rs:121:21
stack backtrace:
   0:        0x10678cc15 - <std::sys_common::backtrace::_print::DisplayBacktrace as core::fmt::Display>::fmt::hff7732c2e44ef8b9
   1:        0x1067afedd - core::fmt::write::hd42cb3dea57bae40
   2:        0x10678675b - std::io::Write::write_fmt::ha39f6009af02b1d2
   3:        0x10678ebaa - std::panicking::default_hook::{{closure}}::h389f076017b5df43
   4:        0x10678e8aa - std::panicking::default_hook::h04b06ec20c41bf02
   5:        0x10678f1fd - std::panicking::rust_panic_with_hook::hccde7faed9a5c398
   6:        0x10678edc2 - rust_begin_unwind
   7:        0x1067c87db - std::panicking::begin_panic_fmt::hf9675b7096dbfae9
   8:        0x1064c6d9c - futures::future::chain::Chain<A,B,C>::poll::he489c615a60597d1
   9:        0x1064b4bce - <futures::future::and_then::AndThen<A,B,F> as futures::future::Future>::poll::h90990de517e44472
  10:        0x1064c025a - futures::future::chain::Chain<A,B,C>::poll::h6609e53209a1d3a6
  11:        0x1064ebadb - <futures::future::map::Map<A,F> as futures::future::Future>::poll::h1fda6213bb071071
  12:        0x10637006f - <librespot::Main as futures::future::Future>::poll::h24fa3e5be6c9e480
  13:        0x10635ddd8 - futures::task_impl::std::set::h7293cb711405eabf
  14:        0x1063577f2 - <futures::future::lazy::Lazy<F,R> as futures::future::Future>::poll::he6ac6beaba9d82d5
  15:        0x10635db68 - futures::task_impl::std::set::h03c3693e24dfad79
  16:        0x10635ce71 - std::thread::local::LocalKey<T>::with::h7049f12f959ca134
  17:        0x10635c000 - tokio_current_thread::Entered<P>::block_on::hf2cb1c34b728b1f1
  18:        0x106353b9d - tokio_timer::timer::handle::with_default::h2c01ebecc6f7920b
  19:        0x10635cf61 - std::thread::local::LocalKey<T>::with::h84f975f0c838cd9c
  20:        0x106358441 - scoped_tls::ScopedKey<T>::set::h218c98116d2aa38d
  21:        0x106374eb3 - tokio_core::reactor::Core::run::hea730c728417dad4
  22:        0x1063739df - librespot::main::h8bbb94fb146af9fa
  23:        0x106354316 - std::rt::lang_start::{{closure}}::h53ad39aa96ab83ab
  24:        0x10678ecc8 - std::panicking::try::do_call::hf2b35caddf59127c
  25:        0x1067968cb - __rust_maybe_catch_panic
  26:        0x10678f5be - std::rt::lang_start_internal::h8e563903bf99e7c1
  27:        0x106374b39 - main

I know this is being run on my local but the error is exactly the same in my container. I was trying to find a fix before coming here.

So running the librespot command straight in the CLI with the variables SPOTIFY_LOGIN and SPOTIFY_PASSWORD defined in my env works just fine. It doesn’t like if I try to run it in a script like the container does. Here is my test script:

SPOTIFY_CREDENTIALS="--username \"$SPOTIFY_LOGIN\" --password \"$SPOTIFY_PASSWORD\""

echo $SPOTIFY_CREDENTIALS
exec /Users/admin/.cargo/bin/librespot --name "test" $SPOTIFY_CREDENTIALS

I run it like so

export SPOTIFY_LOGIN=<login>; export SPOTIFY_PASSWORD=<password>; sh test.sh

This logs out the correct values for the login and password that I set, but it throws the ‘BadCredentials’ error that I was getting before. I’m not sure if it’s me using it wrong or if this is a bug with librespot that I need to bring to them.

Any suggestions?

[Baryczka]

For me it started working finally when I remove quotes and escapes from spotify/start.sh line:23

- SPOTIFY_CREDENTIALS="--username \"$SPOTIFY_LOGIN\" --password \"$SPOTIFY_PASSWORD\""
+ SPOTIFY_CREDENTIALS="--username $SPOTIFY_LOGIN --password $SPOTIFY_PASSWORD"

Otherwise it looks as variables were not assigned properly.

[ivebeenlinuxed]

Hi All! Fix is simple: put a space in your password and it works 😂