How to Setup a Spotify Cover Art Display with Raspberry Pi

Ryan Ward
5 min readMay 4, 2023

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Overview

This project is to display the cover art of any song you are listening to on a led matrix from the Spotify web api. This has been a huge passion project of mine and I am glad to see that other people have been interested in it as well. Here is what the finished project will look like once it is built:

Required Hardware for SpotiPi

Before you begin building SpotiPi there are a few items you will need to purchase. The total price for this build is around $95 USD.

$39.99 32x32 RGB LED Matrix Panel — 6mm pitch

$14.95 Adafruit RGB Matrix Bonnet for Raspberry Pi

$14.00 Raspberry Pi Zero WH (Zero W with Headers)

$9.99 5V/4A 20W Switching Power Supply Adapter

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Ryan Ward
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Written by Ryan Ward who lives and works in DC building, educating and learning about tech.