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Spotify × Claude

Use the Spotify MCP server
in Claude

Discover music and podcasts — recommendations by taste, mood, and activity, from your AI. This guide connects Spotify to Claude (claude.ai and the Claude desktop app) through a governed gateway — one URL that also works in every other MCP client you use, with your rules and a full log attached.

Connect Spotify free

Live-probed · Security-scanned · Note: Spotify currently restricts third-party sign-ins — API-key path recommended

Setup: Spotify in Claude

Claude adds MCP servers via custom connectors in Settings. The gateway route takes about two minutes:

  1. Create a free gate gateway and connect Spotify to it from the verified directory (one click — note: Spotify currently restricts third-party sign-ins, so use the API-key path if the vendor offers one).
  2. Open claude.ai → Settings → Connectors and click 'Add custom connector'.
  3. Name it 'gate' and paste your gateway URL, then approve the authorization.
  4. Ask Claude something Spotify can answer — the call runs through your gateway, with your rules applied and logged.

What to ask once it’s connected

“Build me a focus playlist for deep work.”
“Recommend new artists based on what I've been listening to.”
“Find an upbeat podcast for my morning commute.”
“What should I put on for a dinner party tonight?”

Why route it through a gateway

One URL, every client

The same Spotify connection works in Claude Code, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code too — no per-client re-wiring.

Rules before regret

Allow, ask, or block every tool Spotify exposes — reads can flow freely while writes require your approval.

Every call logged

A plain-language activity log of everything Claude did with Spotify — searchable, exportable, auditable.

Scanned and probed

Spotify passed a live handshake probe and a security scan before listing — and drift detection watches it after you connect.

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Also available: Spotify in Claude Code · Spotify in ChatGPT · Spotify in Cursor · Spotify in VS Code