Need Spotify Authentication Help Please

[eldontrakt]

Hi there.
Came across this project after the announcement of Spotify integration back into DJ Apps, DJAY, Serato and Rekordbox (Sept 2025).

I have followed the steps 20 times on my 2020 M1 Macbook Air, OSX Ventura 13.7.4 with Traktor Pro 4.20 34. I cant get this too work at all. Can anyone please clarify the Spotify authentication in the config.properties file. As far as i understand there is no beatport account necessary and Spotify should work with this setup.

The instructions in Step 2 says: Configure the server by adjusting the config.properties file. Both Spotify and Tidal sources require an account.
I have a Spotify pro account, but nowhere is there any indication of how or where to enter this account details besides there being a TIdal client id section: My setup looks like this:

don't change
beatport.accountId=1337338

comma-separated list of enabled sources
available: spotify,tidal,youtube
sources.enabled=spotify

only enabled sources can be enabled for search
leave empty if you want to use all
search.enabled=

if you enable tidal, you need to fill in your client id
you need your account credentials when asked to visit the authentication web page
tidal.clientId=

So i assume you have to enter a Spotify clientid here, which is only available if you sign up as a developer with Spotify???
I signed up for a developer account, which gave me a Spotify Client and Secret Id which i inserted into my config.properties file.

Then it looks like this:
if you enable tidal, you need to fill in your client id
you need your account credentials when asked to visit the authentication web page
spotify.clientId="my spotify client id number"
spotify.clientsecret="my spotify client secret number"

In my spotify developer account i set up Redirect Urls: https://api.beatport.com/v4/catalog/genres/

Obviously i'm just REACHING here as i can't find any instructions how to set this up in your setup guide?

So:

I have tried with SIP on, and none of the codesigning after creating my own certificate wanted to take, so i just ended up disabling SIP to try this out, not that it's mentioned anywhere that you must deactivate it. Well deactivating it got me further.
I successfully completed the following:

I downloaded latest version V 0.5.1 traktor-streaming-proxy.zip. This did not include a SecTrustEvaluateStub.dylib file. I then downloaded traktor-streaming-proxy-0.5.1 sourcecode.zip and made my own stub as per the instructions and moved that file into the original extracted traktor-streaming-proxy folder.

I then created a code signing certificate in Keychain Acces, with which i successfully signed the Traktor pro 4 app. (failed if SIP is on).
I then Run the server from the directory where the config.properties file is located using cmd bin/traktor-streaming-proxy.
I did not want to mess with the system pf.conf. So i created my own one for this purpose and placed it inside the traktor-streaming-proxy folder. This pf.conf contains:
rdr pass on lo0 inet proto tcp from any to any port 80 -> 127.0.0.1 port 8080
rdr pass on lo0 inet proto tcp from any to any port 443 -> 127.0.0.1 port 8443

I redirect ports 80 -> 8080 and 443 -> 8443 as per the commands adjusting cmds for the location of my  pf.conf file.
I edit the host file 127.0.0.1   api.beatport.com.

Step 8: This is where i get tripped up now: Verify that the setup is working correctly. I try the cmd curl -k https://api.beatport.com/v4/catalog/genres/. I do not get the JSON response as outlined in the guide:
Instead of getting:
{
    "results": [
        {
            "id": 1,
            "name": "YouTube"
        }
    ]
}

I only get this as a response:
{"detail":"Authentication credentials were not provided."}%  

If i try entering https://api.beatport.com/v4/catalog/genres/ in a web browser i don't get some certificate error I can ignore but the same code: {"detail":"Authentication credentials were not provided."}

i can successfully run DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES=./SecTrustEvaluateStub.dylib "/Applications/Native Instruments/Traktor Pro 3/Traktor.app/Contents/MacOS/Traktor" to open Traktor,(obviously my cmd is adjusted to open Traktor Pro 4) but nowhere can i see or find anything regarding Spotify Streaming, and going to streaming settings and clicking on Beatport login does not redirect me to Spotify, so obviously there is something wrong here regarding Spotify integration and authentication.

It would be much appreciated if anyone can help me get this working.
Many thanks.

[0xf4b1]

Spotify stopped working few days ago and needs to be fixed in the underlying librespot library, whenever it gets updated I'll fix it in this project and release a new version.

Regarding your general setup issues, the response you are getting in step 8 is from the real beatport api server, so your hosts entry is not working. You don't need a client id for spotify, all you need is to enable the source in the config file and visit the OAuth url that is printed out when you start the server in a web browser once and login with your credentials.

[eldontrakt]

Hi thanks for getting back to me. Ok for now i continued and ignored everything regarding getting spotify to work, but not even youtube wants to work. I have done everything according to the setup guide just focusing on youtube and get the correct Youtube JSON response in Step 8.

But launching Traktor and selecting Setting->Streaming->Beatport Login still opens up the api.beatport login url for me in a browser with nothing happening like you explain from this point on:

Run Traktor with the following command: DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES=./SecTrustEvaluateStub.dylib "/Applications/Native Instruments/Traktor Pro 3/Traktor.app/Contents/MacOS/Traktor"

This is my cmd: DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES=/Users/username/Downloads/1/traktor-streaming-proxy/SecTrustEvaluateStub.dylib "/Applications/Native Instruments/Traktor Pro 4/Traktor Pro 4.app/Contents/MacOS/Traktor Pro 4" it opens Traktor Pro 4 fine.

This is my actual script file i run to just do it all in one shot:

SCRIPT CMDS in .sh file

echo "Flushing DNS cache..."
sudo dscacheutil -flushcache
sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder

echo "Loading PF rules..."
sudo pfctl -f /Users/username/Downloads/1/traktor-streaming-proxy/traktor_pf.conf
sudo pfctl -e

echo "Setting Java IPv4 preference..."
export JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS="-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true"

echo "Starting Traktor Streaming Proxy..."
bin/traktor-streaming-proxy &

sleep 5

echo "Launching Traktor Pro 4 with DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES stub..."
DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES=/Users/username/Downloads/1/traktor-streaming-proxy/SecTrustEvaluateStub.dylib
"/Applications/Native Instruments/Traktor Pro 4/Traktor Pro 4.app/Contents/MacOS/Traktor Pro 4"

echo "Done!"

Then i test with:

curl -v --resolve api.beatport.com:80:127.0.0.1 http://api.beatport.com/v4/catalog/genres/
curl -vk --resolve api.beatport.com:443:127.0.0.1 https://api.beatport.com/v4/catalog/genres/

and my result log is:

User@User-MacBook-Air traktor-streaming-proxy % curl -v --resolve api.beatport.com:80:127.0.0.1 http://api.beatport.com/v4/catalog/genres/

• Added api.beatport.com:80:127.0.0.1 to DNS cache
• Hostname api.beatport.com was found in DNS cache
• Trying 127.0.0.1:80...
• Connected to api.beatport.com (127.0.0.1) port 80

GET /v4/catalog/genres/ HTTP/1.1
Host: api.beatport.com
User-Agent: curl/8.7.1
Accept: /

• Request completely sent off
  < HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  < Content-Length: 97
  < Content-Type: application/json
  <
  {
  "results": [
  {
  "id": 1,
  "name": "YouTube"
  }
  ]
• Connection #0 to host api.beatport.com left intact
  }%

User@User-MacBook-Air traktor-streaming-proxy % curl -vk --resolve api.beatport.com:443:127.0.0.1 https://api.beatport.com/v4/catalog/genres/

• Added api.beatport.com:443:127.0.0.1 to DNS cache
• Hostname api.beatport.com was found in DNS cache
• Trying 127.0.0.1:443...
• Connected to api.beatport.com (127.0.0.1) port 443
• ALPN: curl offers h2,http/1.1
• (304) (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
• (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
• (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Unknown (8):
• (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):
• (304) (IN), TLS handshake, CERT verify (15):
• (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
• (304) (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
• SSL connection using TLSv1.3 / AEAD-AES128-GCM-SHA256 / [blank] / UNDEF
• ALPN: server accepted h2
• Server certificate:
• subject: C=RU; O=JetBrains; OU=Kotlin; CN=localhost
• start date: Sep 28 00:25:17 2025 GMT
• expire date: Oct 1 00:25:17 2025 GMT
• issuer: C=RU; O=JetBrains; OU=Kotlin; CN=localhost
• SSL certificate verify result: self signed certificate (18), continuing anyway.
• using HTTP/2
• [HTTP/2] [1] OPENED stream for https://api.beatport.com/v4/catalog/genres/
• [HTTP/2] [1] [:method: GET]
• [HTTP/2] [1] [:scheme: https]
• [HTTP/2] [1] [:authority: api.beatport.com]
• [HTTP/2] [1] [:path: /v4/catalog/genres/]
• [HTTP/2] [1] [user-agent: curl/8.7.1]
• [HTTP/2] [1] [accept: /]

GET /v4/catalog/genres/ HTTP/2
Host: api.beatport.com
User-Agent: curl/8.7.1
Accept: /

• Request completely sent off
  < HTTP/2 200
  < content-length: 97
  < content-type: application/json
  <
  {
  "results": [
  {
  "id": 1,
  "name": "YouTube"
  }
  ]
• Connection #0 to host api.beatport.com left intact
  }%

So please can you tell me why i just get no redirect and implementation with youtube inside Traktor Pro 4. Everything seems right. Proxy working, redirects, and JSON. Or is this just not working anymore on 2020 M1 Macbook Air, OSX Ventura 13.7.4 with Traktor Pro 4.20 34.

SIP is disabled and firewall turned off.

Many thanks.

[0xf4b1]

When you click login in traktor, it should open the web browser with an url starting with https://api.beatport.com/v4/auth/o/authorize/... and that should be handled by the proxy server and redirect to the url traktor://bp_oauth?code=foo which is handled by traktor. It may be possible that the browser refuses to open the url because the certificate is invalid, however in firefox it is possible to allow it after a warning.

It does also work to directly visit the callback url in a browser without clicking login in traktor before, this way you don't have issues with browser and certificate.

[eldontrakt]

HI. Everything is still as is in my setup as explained above. I installed Firefox, but no difference to using Safari and Google browsers all updated to latest versions. I tried what you said. You said: When you click login in traktor, it should open the web browser with an url starting with https://api.beatport.com/v4/auth/o/authorize/... and that should be handled by the proxy server and redirect to the url traktor://bp_oauth?code=foo which is handled by traktor.

Considering my log above, where all looks good, this redirect never happens for me. So i run my script to the point where I'm Launching Traktor Pro 4 with the code signed DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES stub...". I then proceed to not go to settings->Streaming->Beatport Login and just copy the https://api.beatport.com/v4/auth/o/authorize/... into all browsers above direct normal and private windows and no redirect ever happen. i then proceed to just manually copy and paste traktor://bp_oauth?code=foo into all browsers normal and private windows, and even firefox just give this...

and then

I click ok and just get redirected to

I have been trying 3 days now lol. Any further ideas?

[0xf4b1]

It still looks like your hosts file entry is missing or incorrect. Your browser should not reach and show the official beatport login page. Also your tests with curl must work without the --resolve flag. Without the hosts file entry, traktor will continue to connect to the official server.

Double check the hosts entry, when I close the browser, remove the hosts entry, restart the browser and visit api.beatport.com, I get the beatport login page as seen in your last picture. Then after closing the browser, adding the hosts entry, restarting the browser and visiting the url again, it is no longer reachable, so its properly connecting to localhost instead.

[eldontrakt]

Hi thanks for the feedback. My hosts file looked exactly as it should be, but I recreated it with sudo nano. After that pinging beatport api resolved to 127.0.0.1 so it's working now. But i'm a bit confused now. Is youtube just being used here as a test to see if all is working and not useable in a DJ sense that you can actually search for music tracks and Dj with it inside Traktor?
Is the search box in Traktor hardcoded to query only the tracks that the proxy itself has indexed, which are just the Top 100 / Genres tracks. I can't seem to figure out how to search or setup youtube playlists containing dj style format single tracks? Is this even possible with this without editing and adding code to the traktor streaming proxy to do so.

I tried adding lines in the config.properties for my youtube api and playlist id's.
youtube.playlist.1.name=name of playlist
youtube.playlist.1.id=id of playlist
youtube.apiKey=my api key

So my Problem: How does the proxy’s current YouTube implementation map my custom playlists into the searchable database. So even with search enabled, the tracks from my playlist are never actually indexed.

Right now all i can do is search 50 random junk non music related youtube files (most likely some trending list) under the Genre Folder in a single Youtube playlist.

How is this supposed to work?
Thanks for your time.

[0xf4b1]

The search box in traktor will search for tracks on all configured sources, for youtube it queries for tracks on youtube music and that tracks you could use to mix in traktor. Youtube works without account and does not support public or own playlists. You can of course search for tracks and build a playlist in traktor. The category playlists in beatport streaming would only list own playlists from spotify and tidal.

The values you are adding to the config.properties do not exist and will have no effect, there are no more configuration values that the ones present in the default template.

[eldontrakt]

This is my config file after the proxy started:

search.enabled=
tidal.clientId=client_id
sources.enabled=youtube
beatport.accountId=1337338

So all looks good in config.

Searching inside traktor with youtube connected and proxy working gives me nothing when trying to search youtube e.g. if i search Paul Van Dyk - For an angel or any other song or artist, all i get is no results as in empty results with the proxy log showing the following below, each time a search happens:

482134 [eventLoopGroupProxy-4-3] INFO io.ktor.server.Application - 404 Not Found: GET - /search/v1/tracks in 0ms
482178 [eventLoopGroupProxy-3-2] DEBUG io.netty.handler.ssl.SslHandler - [id: 0xa11731cd, L:/127.0.0.1:8443 - R:/127.0.0.1:53335] Swallowing a harmless 'connection reset by peer / broken pipe' error that occurred while writing close_notify in response to the peer's close_notify
java.net.SocketException: Connection reset
at java.base/sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.throwConnectionReset(SocketChannelImpl.java:394)
at java.base/sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.read(SocketChannelImpl.java:426)
at io.netty.buffer.PooledByteBuf.setBytes(PooledByteBuf.java:255)
at io.netty.buffer.AbstractByteBuf.writeBytes(AbstractByteBuf.java:1132)
at io.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioSocketChannel.doReadBytes(NioSocketChannel.java:356)
at io.netty.channel.nio.AbstractNioByteChannel$NioByteUnsafe.read(AbstractNioByteChannel.java:151)
at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKey(NioEventLoop.java:796)
at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKeysOptimized(NioEventLoop.java:732)
at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKeys(NioEventLoop.java:658)
at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.run(NioEventLoop.java:562)
at io.netty.util.concurrent.SingleThreadEventExecutor$4.run(SingleThreadEventExecutor.java:998)
at io.netty.util.internal.ThreadExecutorMap$2.run(ThreadExecutorMap.java:74)
at io.netty.util.concurrent.FastThreadLocalRunnable.run(FastThreadLocalRunnable.java:30)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:840)

508721 [eventLoopGroupProxy-3-3] DEBUG io.netty.handler.ssl.SslHandler - [id: 0xe7cc47d6, L:/127.0.0.1:8443 - R:/127.0.0.1:53341] HANDSHAKEN: protocol:TLSv1.2 cipher suite:TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
508723 [eventLoopGroupProxy-4-4] INFO io.ktor.server.Application - 404 Not Found: GET - /search/v1/tracks in 0ms
508745 [eventLoopGroupProxy-3-3] DEBUG io.netty.handler.ssl.SslHandler - [id: 0xe7cc47d6, L:/127.0.0.1:8443 - R:/127.0.0.1:53341] Swallowing a harmless 'connection reset by peer / broken pipe' error that occurred while writing close_notify in response to the peer's close_notify
java.net.SocketException: Connection reset
at java.base/sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.throwConnectionReset(SocketChannelImpl.java:394)
at java.base/sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.read(SocketChannelImpl.java:426)
at io.netty.buffer.PooledByteBuf.setBytes(PooledByteBuf.java:255)
at io.netty.buffer.AbstractByteBuf.writeBytes(AbstractByteBuf.java:1132)
at io.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioSocketChannel.doReadBytes(NioSocketChannel.java:356)
at io.netty.channel.nio.AbstractNioByteChannel$NioByteUnsafe.read(AbstractNioByteChannel.java:151)
at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKey(NioEventLoop.java:796)
at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKeysOptimized(NioEventLoop.java:732)
at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKeys(NioEventLoop.java:658)
at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.run(NioEventLoop.java:562)
at io.netty.util.concurrent.SingleThreadEventExecutor$4.run(SingleThreadEventExecutor.java:998)
at io.netty.util.internal.ThreadExecutorMap$2.run(ThreadExecutorMap.java:74)
at io.netty.util.concurrent.FastThreadLocalRunnable.run(FastThreadLocalRunnable.java:30)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:840)

I'm running V0.5.1 of the proxy. So it seems like Traktor is sending its Beatport search calls but the youtube search results return 404 Not Found and logs about broken pipe' errors. Are there perhaps known issues with youtube music search and newpipe backend? Obviously it's not working as you describe right now for me. Thanks man.

Youtube displays this:

and Searching results in Nothing:

[0xf4b1]

You are using a newer version of traktor than me and the search api changed, you will need the changes from #45 which is not included in the latest release :/

[eldontrakt]

Ok so I have pretty much been chasing my own tail trying to make this work on my setup...FML lol. Can you tell me what version of Traktor you are using. Then i can just try and downgrade.
Thanks

[0xf4b1]

I have Traktor 3.11.1 17 and Traktor 4.0.0 135 demo and it works with both versions.