Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin (Beta)

[Triode]

>I know you mention in the first post that this works with Spotiy
>premium - can I double check it doesn't work with Spotify unlimited?
>
I'd like to know that too. Spotify Premium is a whopping £10 a month, whereas Spotify Unlimited is £5.

Short answer is I don't know.. It is based on libspotify: http://developer.spotify.com/en/libspotify/overview/ which definately needs a subscription. The documentation for this says it needs a premium account, but it was written before the unlimited one was launched.

Perhaps an unlimited subscriber could try it out and let us know?

[goxboxlive]

Hi, great plugin you have created. This was what i have been waiting for to subscribed to Spotify.

But i cant get the helper app stay running. It starts, but stops imidialtly.
My system is:

Versjon: 7.5.1 - r30884 @ Wed Jun 16 02:03:31 PDT 2010
Vertsnavn: linuxserver
Serverens ip-adresse: 10.0.0.3
HTTP-serverens portnummer: 9000
Operativsystem: Debian - NO - utf8
Plattformarkitektur: x86_64-linux
Perl-versjon: 5.10.0 - x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi
MySQL-versjon: 5.0.51a-24+lenny4
Totalt antall tilkoplede spillere: 1

I have installed all the libs that is required as you described. I cant see anything from the log either (it's blanc). But here is an output from my /var/log/messages. Can you see whats causing this?

[10-06-16 20:41:26.8536] Plugins::Spotify::Settings::__ANON__ (92) error fetching status: Connect timed out: Transport endpoint is not connected              
[10-06-16 20:41:27.1570] Plugins::Spotify::Settings::__ANON__ (92) error fetching status: Connect timed out: Transport endpoint is not connected              
[10-06-16 20:41:27.4607] Plugins::Spotify::Settings::__ANON__ (92) error fetching status: Connect timed out: Transport endpoint is not connected              
[10-06-16 20:41:27.7646] Plugins::Spotify::Settings::__ANON__ (92) error fetching status: Connect timed out: Transport endpoint is not connected              
[10-06-16 20:41:28.0688] Plugins::Spotify::Settings::__ANON__ (92) error fetching status: Connect timed out: Transport endpoint is not connected              
[10-06-16 20:41:28.3727] Plugins::Spotify::Settings::__ANON__ (92) error fetching status: Connect timed out: Transport endpoint is not connected              
[10-06-16 20:41:37.7943] Slim::Formats::XML::gotErrorViaHTTP (332) Error: getting http://10.0.0.3:9001/toplist.json?q=artists&r=GB                            
Connect timed out: Transport endpoint is not connected

I have also opened the port 9001 at my firewall, also tried other ports that i have working, in example the port i am using for torrent.

Any help will be apriciated.

jorn.

[Triode]

Hi, great plugin you have created. This was what i have been waiting for to subscribed to Spotify.

Hum - can you find the spotifyd location and run it from the command line from the directory it is in. It should give some error messages if/when it crashes (or linux will say segfault or whatever if its the code)

[goxboxlive]

Yes, i will try tomorrow. Thanks for quick respons.

[pete the feet]

Yahoo nice one Triode. Just installed it 10 minutes ago and it works.

[punkmachine]

Short answer is I don't know.. It is based on libspotify: which definately needs a subscription. The documentation for this says it needs a premium account, but it was written before the unlimited one was launched.

Perhaps an unlimited subscriber could try it out and let us know?

I tried it with an unlimited account. It doesn't work. Plugin is not able to log in. Upgraded to premium and now it works like a charm. Thanks Triode

[manso]

This is great news! I'm using Squeezeserver on Qnap NAS. Any chance it will make it onto this platform?

Thanks heaps!

[Triode]

This is great news! I'm using Squeezeserver on Qnap NAS. Any chance it will make it onto this platform?

I'm afraid not - it uses Spotify's libspotify which is only available for intel or equivalent cpus on linux, windows and osx. So it is always going to require a pc class server.

[pete the feet]

I will have a go at adding tracks and deleting from playlists tomorrow. For now I have just opened the regular Spotify application and done the editing there.

[)p(]

Big thanks Triode for your work. I have been a subscriber for a while now so I am excited to see this. I'll play with it the coming days and report back.

From a very short look at it the main thing I would love to see is an easy way from a track in the playlist to browse the albums of that artist. This is because to organize artists in spotify I have made several genre playlists with one song for each artist in it.