Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin (Beta)

[mo5265654]

Confirming that streaming from Spotify again works for me as well using Triode's plugin obviously after some fixes made by Spotify.

[abejan]

Hi!
I'm a devoted user of the plugin and I use the similar artists feature a lot to discover new music. However, sometimes when I navigate via similar artists, select artist, then go to top 10 tracks of artist, the artist menu appears again.

I have checked the "Use Last.FM for similar artists" option. I'm not experiencing the problem when using Spotifys own similar artist list. But I prefer the Last.FM list.

Anyone else experiencing this?

I'm running LMS 7.7.2 - r33893 + Plugin v2.2.7.

Thanks

[Triode]

Hi!
I'm a devoted user of the plugin and I use the similar artists feature a lot to discover new music. However, sometimes when I navigate via similar artists, select artist, then go to top 10 tracks of artist, the artist menu appears again.

I have checked the "Use Last.FM for similar artists" option. I'm not experiencing the problem when using Spotifys own similar artist list. But I prefer the Last.FM list.

Anyone else experiencing this?

I'm running LMS 7.7.2 - r33893 + Plugin v2.2.7.

Thanks

Ok will check - I suspect LastFM have changed something...

[Ajeighh]

I was checking around, and I could see that the password never was saved, and there was no entry in spotifyd64.conf and so on.

The workaround was, and this I just found out by accident:

You. Are. The. Man. Credit where credit's due. Everything now works. No more delving around in firewall config for me!

[mo5265654]

Ok will check - I suspect LastFM have changed something...

I also added last.fm login info and selected "Use Last.fm for Similar Artists" and "Use Last.fm for Artist Recommedations".

Two issues I observed so far are:

1) When going e.g. through "Recommeneded arists", for a particular artist the menu might show "Albums (2)", but when I select this, it just shows "Empty". This is a systematic problem for all recommneded artists' alums and tracks.

2) When a track is playing and I use the context menu, selecting the entry with the artist's name, the Sueezebox shows "Cannot request non-HTTP URL anyurl".

3) Way mor minor but also could be improved: The recommeneded artist list is completely unsorted and even some are in all-caps.

I could not see any interesting logs spotifyd.log, even in debug mode.

Thanks,
Mo

[mo5265654]

Hi Triode,

can you tell me what I can do to check why the last.fm is not working correctly with respect to the below issues? Is there any info I can provide to find out what is wrong?

Thanks in advance for any hint which helps making your great plugin even more useful :-)

Thanks,
Mo

I also added last.fm login info and selected "Use Last.fm for Similar Artists" and "Use Last.fm for Artist Recommedations".

Two issues I observed so far are:

1) When going e.g. through "Recommeneded arists", for a particular artist the menu might show "Albums (2)", but when I select this, it just shows "Empty". This is a systematic problem for all recommneded artists' alums and tracks.

2) When a track is playing and I use the context menu, selecting the entry with the artist's name, the Sueezebox shows "Cannot request non-HTTP URL anyurl".

3) Way mor minor but also could be improved: The recommeneded artist list is completely unsorted and even some are in all-caps.

I could not see any interesting logs spotifyd.log, even in debug mode.

Thanks,
Mo

[dr sic]

Hi, I already have a Duet and i just want to be sure before I buy a Touch that they will both work with Triodes plug-in and that it is possible to sync them perfectly playing Spotify, is that so?

I could buy another Duet but the price is the same for a Touch here in Sweden and I would prefere the Touch.

[abejan]

Hi, I already have a Duet and i just want to be sure before I buy a Touch that they will both work with Triodes plug-in and that it is possible to sync them perfectly playing Spotify, is that so?

I could buy another Duet but the price is the same for a Touch here in Sweden and I would prefere the Touch.

Hi! I have duets, radios and a SB Touch, and they are working fine with the Triode plugin. No issues on synchronization either, besides some need to set delay correctly when syncing a cabled SB and one connected via WIFI. But that issue is the same for all sources, ie streaming radio, local music or Spotify.

[fairyliquidizer]

Ignore this. Firewall issue

[danny041]

Hi Triode,
I have had your app (and the official one) working as a charm since day one. Never had any problems at all, until yesterday?! Now nothing works at all, and I get different errors all the time so it is hard to do a good root cause analysis of the problem.

Background: Have not changed or altered anything. I am running Logitech media server on a mac mini updated to Mountain lion a couple of days ago, so maybe that could be the error. I have an airport extreme as a router. The firewall is off (and has always been). I have two squeezebox duet and one squeezebox radio.

One time i get the error "can' play file type" when trying to play spotify songs. The other time the track starts playing (no sound output though) and after between 3-5 secs it skips to next track. This continues and I can't even paus it. Need to soft-shut-down the player in order to make this loop stop. Also when doing this, the web interface for LMS becomes really slow. I have run the auto self test which gives me different answers randomly. It clears the four first steps (most of the time. Some time it says that helper app isn't installed, usually when the server response time is really slow) but it always fail on the last step, giving the reason that the player is unable to connect, or that it can't stream due to that always stream via helper isn't enabled.

I have tried both changing port (between 9000 and 9005, which I have never had any problem with before.
I have also tried checking and unchecking the always stream via helper (which has never been checked before).
I have tried to uninstall both the offical and your app through unchecking them in the web interface, but I realize that this is not a full uninstall since it remember my login details when i check them again.
I have then tried to install just one of the apps, then both, but to no help. I have managed to get the official app to work, but only on my squeezebox radio, not when trying to synchronize with more players (never a problem before).

I have tried searching online, which is why I have done the above trial and error-things.

I am therefore in a really bad spot, and would really appreciate some help. Any help, or tip, at all. If someone just tell me what kind of logs they would like to see, I will post them. I have gone through the log-reports myself but it doesn't tell me much, other than that it does not work (for some reason.

Thanks in advance for any tip, clue, guidance or assistance that could help me out of this mess, that has created itself out of thin air.

Best Regards
Daniel