Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin (Beta)

[orcocan]

thanks a lot Triode

do you think it will be possible to make it work via mysqueezebox.com instead of having to run the server on my pc?

[Triode]

do you think it will be possible to make it work via mysqueezebox.com instead of having to run the server on my pc?

I'm afraid not - it needs to run Spotify's software on the server to stream the audio. Any solution which does not require a server will require Spotify support inside the Logitech firmware and will be down to Logitech...

[orcocan]

shame... lets hope that logitech will do something to officially support spotify at some stage

the main issue i encountered when playing a song in a playlist, it seems to repeat the same song over and over again instead of playing the next song

interface is a bit buggy at times but the plugin is brilliant otherwise, thanks again for your work!

[punkmachine]

I have scrobbling enabled on both Spotify and the Squeezebox. But when playing music through the plugin tracks don't seem to get scrobbled. Am I correct or am I doing something wrong?!

[goxboxlive]

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)

Ok i did som tests. First when i ran spotifyd it complained about missing libFLAC.so.8. I made a symlink to /usr/lib/libFLAC.so.8 in the spotify plugin directory and now it complaines about wrong ELF class.

linuxserver:/var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/Spotify/Bin/i386-linux# ls
libFLAC.so.8  libspotify.so.4  spotifyd  spotifyd.conf
linuxserver:/var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/Spotify/Bin/i386-linux# ./spotifyd
./spotifyd: error while loading shared libraries: libFLAC.so.8: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

I have ia32-libs installed, but i cant fint it anywhere in /usr/lib /usr/lib32 or /usr/lib64.
The only place i have ia32 is in this path.

linuxserver:/var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/Spotify/Bin/i386-linux# find / -name ia32*
/emul/ia32-linux                                                                                               
/usr/share/doc/ia32-libs                                                                                       
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/ia32-libs                                                                         
/usr/lib/rpm/ia32e-linux                                                                                       
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26-2-amd64/include/asm-x86/ia32.h                                                   
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26-2-amd64/include/asm-x86/ia32_unistd.h                                            
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26-2-amd64/include/config/ia32                                                      
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26-2-common/include/asm-x86/ia32.h                                                  
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26-2-common/include/asm-x86/ia32_unistd.h                                           
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26-2-common/arch/x86/ia32                                                           
/var/lib/dpkg/info/ia32-libs.preinst                                                                           
/var/lib/dpkg/info/ia32-libs.postinst                                                                          
/var/lib/dpkg/info/ia32-libs.postrm                                                                            
/var/lib/dpkg/info/ia32-libs.list                                                                              
/var/lib/dpkg/info/ia32-libs.md5sums                                                                           
/var/lib/dpkg/info/ia32-libs.shlibs                                                                            
/var/cache/apt/archives/ia32-libs_2.7_amd64.deb

Any idea?

Jorns

[)p(]

I cant get it to play any tracks. Probably something on my side. I am running 7.5.1 on win vista.

Update: Solved...stupid me forgot to open the firewall for the helper app.

[elziko]

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

That's a shame, but thanks for letting us know!

[contour]

Hi Triode,

First of all:
Great work! Spotify on the SqueezeBox is one of the final key feature to make my music experience at home complete. I think that the job that you, Erland, and many others do for the SqueezeBox community is great.

Regarding the plugin, i´ve tried installing it on a QNAP TS-239 Pro NAS (an Intel Atom based unit). I hoped it might work since it was built for linux or windows on pc platforms. The plugin installed without problems, but the app doesn't seem to start.

When running spotifyd manually from a terminal i get the following message:
"./spotifyd: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by ./spotifyd)"

I guess that the spotifyd binary is compiled for a different version of GLIBC then the one installed on my QNAP. Looking at the link "/lib/libc.so.6" it points to "/lib/libc-2.6.1.so" so im guessing that 2.6.1 is the version installed on my QNAP.

Do you know of any easy way to fix this? Do i need a spotifyd compiled for libc-2.6.1 or is there any other way to get this working?

Best regards.

/Martin

[andyg]

Triode you might want to rebuild spotifyd on a Debian 4.0 VM, that's generally what I use for the most-compatible binaries that will work on older libc versions.

[Triode]

the main issue i encountered when playing a song in a playlist, it seems to repeat the same song over and over again instead of playing the next song

Can you explain how you are playing a song from the playlist - I don't see this and it may be that you have different server settings. If you have "play other songs in album or directory" set then I would expect it to transfer the entire spotify playlist to the player's playlist and for them all to appear under now playing. Then its a matter of what repeat mode the player is in.

interface is a bit buggy at times but the plugin is brilliant otherwise, thanks again for your work!

You will have to be more specific to get this fixed...