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   - `Spotify's official metadata API <http://developer.spotify.com/en/metadata-api/overview/>`_
   - `pyspotify <http://code.google.com/p/pyspotify/>`_,
     Python bindings for the official Spotify library, libspotify
+
+
+Installing despotify and spytify
+--------------------------------
+
+Check out the despotify source code::
+
+    svn co https://despotify.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/despotify@363 despotify
+
+As spytify does not seem up to date with the latest revision of despotify we
+explicitly fetch revision 363, which was when spytify was last changed.
+
+Install despotify's dependencies. At Debian/Ubuntu systems::
+
+    sudo aptitude install libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libvorbis-dev \
+        libtool libncursesw5-dev libpulse-dev \
+        libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 libgstreamer0.10-dev \
+        libao-dev
+
+Build and install despotify::
+
+    cd despotify/src/
+    make
+    sudo make install
+
+Install spytify's dependencies. At Debian/Ubuntu systems::
+
+    sudo aptitude install python-pyrex
+
+Build and install spytify::
+
+    cd despotify/src/bindings/python/
+    python setup.py build
+    sudo python setup.py install
+
+To validate that everything is working, run the ``test.py`` script which is
+distributed with spytify::
+
+    python test.py
+
+The test script should ask for your username and password (which must be for a
+Spotify Premium account), ask for a search query, list all your playlists with
+tracks, play 10s from a random song from the search result, pause for two
+seconds, play for five more seconds, and quit.
+