External Integrations

Spotify

Artist images can be retrieved from Spotify. You’ll need to set the config options Spotify.ID and Spotify.Secret. To obtain these values, create a free account in Spotify, then follow these steps:

1. Click on the “Create an App” button in Spotify’s Developer dashboard: https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard/applications:

2. Fill all fields and click on the “Create” button:

3. Copy the values to your configuration file (or set them as environment variables):

Last.fm

Navidrome can use Last.fm to retrieve artists biographies, artists top songs, similar artists and album covers. It works out-of-the-box, but if you want to setup your own API-KEY, follow these steps:

You will need a Last.fm free account, then you’ll need to set the config options LastFM.ApiKey and LastFM.Secret. You can obtain these values by creating an API account in Last.fm:

1. Go to https://www.last.fm/api/account/create and create an API account. Only the Application Name field is mandatory:

2. After submitting the form, you can get the API Key and Shared Secret from the Account Created page:

3. Copy the values above to your configuration file (or set them as environment variables)