[tjoff]

That sounds quite neat, however, this only works for your (spotify) account, right?

The appeal of spotifyd from an end-user perspective is that anyone on the network can control it.

[matthew-wegner]

I'm pretty sure all Spotify clients also act as "Spotify Connect" targets. Anyone could use it (also I could run an Airplay target on it, but I don't bother)

[tjoff]

Only if it is logged in to the same account.