Maloja is a music playlist generator that uses Spotify's API to create playlists based on the user's listening history. In this tutorial, we will cover how to install Maloja on Arch Linux.
Before we begin, ensure that you have the following requirements:
yay installed.Follow the below steps to install Maloja on Arch Linux:
Open the terminal by pressing ctrl+alt+T.
Install required dependencies using the following command:
$ sudo pacman -S git python3 python-pip
Install yay using the following command:
$ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
$ cd yay
$ makepkg -si
Install spotify-token using pip:
$ sudo pip install spotify-token
Clone the Maloja repository from GitHub:
$ git clone https://github.com/krateng/maloja
Change the directory to the Maloja folder:
$ cd maloja
Install Maloja using yay:
$ yay -S maloja-git
Once the installation is complete, configure Maloja by creating a configuration file using the Maloja default configuration file:
$ cp config.yaml.example config.yaml
Edit the configuration file according to your preferences and add your Spotify API credentials.
$ nano config.yaml
To start generating playlists, run the following command, replacing your_username with your Spotify username:
$ maloja --user your_username
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Maloja on Arch Linux, and you can now generate music playlists based on your listening history.
In this tutorial, we covered how to install Maloja on Arch Linux, which is a playlist generator that uses Spotify's API. We also went through the steps to configure and run the application. We hope this tutorial was helpful to you.
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