Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin (Beta)

[Triode]

On iPeng, however, the Spotify Icon does not change at all. It may seem that the app itself, caches the icon, either on the iPhone, or uses another cached version located on the server/pc, which may not be updated unless you reinstall the plugin...?

iPeng includes the icon within the app - you will need to ask pippin why, but it means you are unlikely to be able to change it.

[groennom]

I changed an option on the build of 1.0.3 to see if this would help you. This has removed spotifyd's dependancy on GLIBC_2.4, but it looks libspotify still has a problem for you. I can't do anything about this as it comes direct from spotify. If you can't get this to work then I think its better I put back the thing which was relying on 2.4 as it was providing extra protection against coding errors. [1.0.3 is compiled with -fno-stack-protector for those who understand the details]

I don't know if you must be able to run libspotify.so.4, but when I do ./libspotify.so.4 I get a segmentation violation...

Is there a way to make the GLIBC_2.4 working on the Synology DS1010+?

Other question, Is there anybody with a DS1010+ or another Synology NAS that got it working?

PS: Triode, really appreciate your help!!

[Triode]

I don't know if you must be able to run libspotify.so.4, but when I do ./libspotify.so.4 I get a segmentation violation...

No you should not be able to execute it - this is normal.

Is there a way to make the GLIBC_2.4 working on the Synology DS1010+?

Glibc 2.4 is quite old - it would be worth asking Synology if they have a more up to date build available. Is there a Synology support forum you can ask this on?

[Triode]

3. It have occured that for some reason some tracks are unable to play, if I browse to an artist --> Album --> tracks etc. BUT, if I use Spotify for PC i.e., and locate the song there, and then save it to a playlist, or "Star" it, and then try to play it from either my favorites, starred songs, playlist the playback works fine. Any idea why this is happening?

The example you give is an "album" with a single track within it - is this the case for your other problem tracks? If so which interface is causing you the problem. I think there may be some bugs relating to this case.

[groennom]

No you should not be able to execute it - this is normal.

Is it possible to download a correct version that can be run?

Glibc 2.4 is quite old - it would be worth asking Synology if they have a more up to date build available. Is there a Synology support forum you can ask this on?

There is a support forum, I will take a look there!

[Triode]

Is it possible to download a correct version that can be run?

No it should not be runable - its a shared library.

[Finn]

Edit: Updated with Release status - Release 1.0.1 is now available from the 3rd Party Plugin list

Scope:
- for Spotify users with a Premium account
- plays back 320k or 160k streams
- requires a PC based server running Squeezebox server (linux, windows or mac)
- will play back via Squeezebox 2 and later hardware players only
- supports a single playback session at one time which may be synchronised across multiple players (i.e. does not support multiple differently playback sessions at one time - this is a Spotify limitation)

If you are a Spotify Premium subscriber, then to try it out:

1) Make sure you are running 7.5 or 7.5.1 Squeezebox server
2) Go to the Settings/Plugin page and select "Show all 3rd party plugins", click apply
3) Select the Spotify plugin from the list and then click apply as per normal plugin installation
4) Ensure the server has restarted
5) Go to the Plugin, Settings page for "Spotify" either via the advanced menu or from the plugin page
6) Read and agree the Spotify restrictions, then add your username and password to the settings page.
7) If you refresh the settings page a couple of times you should see that a "helper app" is running and it is logged into Spotify. If not there may be an error to help...
9) Go to the "radio" menu on one of your hardware players and you should be able to browse and play tracks from Spotify....

Linux:
The binary files included in the plugin include the Spotify library libspotify and a closed source application built around this. This is 32bit only so on 64 bit linux you probably need ia32-libs installed. For both 32bit and 64bit machines you will need libFLAC.so.8 installed (usually in flac or libflac packages of your distro).

Windows:
The binary is 32bit and should work on 64bit as well.

Mac:
The binary will work on 10.6 machines, but issues have been reported using them on 10.5 intel based machines. If you have a 10.5 intel based machine, the workaround is to find the location of 'spotifyd' and 'spotifdppc' within the plugin and to rename them so that spotifyppc becomes spotifyd. This will mean the helper app runs in ppc emulation mode but it has been reported to work on 10.5 macs.

Please provide feedback and let me know if this plugin is interesting to people on this thread

Have tried this plugin on my ReadyNAS only to find the helper app will not start. After further search I have found that the plugin will not run on ReadyNAS.
Quote from ReadyNAS forum:
it's good news a spotify plugin was created for Squeezebox,
unfortunately, this does not work on ReadyNAS Duo (essentially because libspotify only is provided for linux-libc6 x86 architectures)
it's disappointing
anyone here having an idea about how this should progress? is there anything to do to overcome these limitations?
Unquote

Any chance an update to support ReadyNAS will be made?

[humpen]

Hello!
I have just installed and started the excellent plugin you have created Triode. Just to say quick: Ive been waiting for this for years! Thank you!

Ofc I have some problems getting it to work, as it should be .

Server info:
Version: 7.5.1 - r30836 @ Tue Jun 1 05:57:28 PDT 2010
Host: NAS
Serverns IP-adress: 192.168.1.3
HTTP-serverns portnummer: 9000
Operativsystem: Debian - SV - utf8
Plattformsarkitektur: i686-linux
Perl-version: 5.10.1 - i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi
Totalt antal anslutna spelare: 1

Log information:
2010-08-11 12:24:18 squeezeboxserver_safe started.
[10-08-11 12:24:18.1508] main::init (323) Starting Squeezebox Server (v7.5.1, r30836, Tue Jun 1 05:57:28 PDT 2010) perl 5.010001
[10-08-13 04:44:38.0075] Slim::Networking::SqueezeNetwork::Players::_player s_error (308) Unable to get players from SN: Couldn't resolve IP address for: www.mysqueezebox.com, retrying in 300 seconds
[10-08-14 09:41:57.5618] main::init (323) Starting Squeezebox Server (v7.5.1, r30836, Tue Jun 1 05:57:28 PDT 2010) perl 5.010001
[10-08-14 09:50:53.4963] Plugins::Spotify::Spotifyd::startD (33) unable to write log file: /var/log/squeezeboxserver/spotifyd.log
[10-08-14 09:50:53.5604] Plugins::Spotify::Settings::__ANON__ (134) error fetching status: Connect timed out: Transport endpoint is not connected, retries left: 3
[10-08-14 09:50:53.8644] Plugins::Spotify::Settings::__ANON__ (134) error fetching status: Connect timed out: Transport endpoint is not connected, retries left: 2
[10-08-14 09:50:54.1682] Plugins::Spotify::Settings::__ANON__ (134) error fetching status: Connect timed out: Transport endpoint is not connected, retries left: 1
[10-08-14 09:50:54.4719] Plugins::Spotify::Settings::__ANON__ (134) error fetching status: Connect timed out: Transport endpoint is not connected, retries left: 0
[10-08-14 09:58:34.7369] Slim::Formats::XML::gotErrorViaHTTP (332) Error: getting http://192.168.1.3:9001/playlists.json
Connect timed out: Transport endpoint is not connected
[10-08-14 09:58:40.3054] Slim::Formats::XML::gotErrorViaHTTP (332) Error: getting http://192.168.1.3:9001/playlists.json
Connect timed out: Transport endpoint is not connected
[10-08-14 10:15:22.8279] Slim::Formats::XML::gotErrorViaHTTP (332) Error: getting http://192.168.1.3:9001/playlists.json
Connect timed out: Transport endpoint is not connected

Thank you for any help if you have the time.

Best Regards
David Lussi

[Triode]

Have tried this plugin on my ReadyNAS only to find the helper app will not start. After further search I have found that the plugin will not run on ReadyNAS.
Quote from ReadyNAS forum:
it's good news a spotify plugin was created for Squeezebox,
unfortunately, this does not work on ReadyNAS Duo (essentially because libspotify only is provided for linux-libc6 x86 architectures)
it's disappointing
anyone here having an idea about how this should progress? is there anything to do to overcome these limitations?
Unquote

Any chance an update to support ReadyNAS will be made?

Well it can't be supported at present as Spotify do not make an apppropriate version of their library available for the ReadyNAS.

[Triode]

Hello!
I have just installed and started the excellent plugin you have created Triode. Just to say quick: Ive been waiting for this for years! Thank you!

Ofc I have some problems getting it to work, as it should be .

Server info:
Version: 7.5.1 - r30836 @ Tue Jun 1 05:57:28 PDT 2010
Host: NAS
Serverns IP-adress: 192.168.1.3
HTTP-serverns portnummer: 9000
Operativsystem: Debian - SV - utf8
Plattformsarkitektur: i686-linux
Perl-version: 5.10.1 - i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi
Totalt antal anslutna spelare: 1

Log information:
2010-08-11 12:24:18 squeezeboxserver_safe started.
[10-08-11 12:24:18.1508] main::init (323) Starting Squeezebox Server (v7.5.1, r30836, Tue Jun 1 05:57:28 PDT 2010) perl 5.010001
[10-08-13 04:44:38.0075] Slim::Networking::SqueezeNetwork::Players::_player s_error (308) Unable to get players from SN: Couldn't resolve IP address for: www.mysqueezebox.com, retrying in 300 seconds
[10-08-14 09:41:57.5618] main::init (323) Starting Squeezebox Server (v7.5.1, r30836, Tue Jun 1 05:57:28 PDT 2010) perl 5.010001
[10-08-14 09:50:53.4963] Plugins::Spotify::Spotifyd::startD (33) unable to write log file: /var/log/squeezeboxserver/spotifyd.log
[10-08-14 09:50:53.5604] Plugins::Spotify::Settings::__ANON__ (134) error fetching status: Connect timed out: Transport endpoint is not connected, retries left: 3
[10-08-14 09:50:53.8644] Plugins::Spotify::Settings::__ANON__ (134) error fetching status: Connect timed out: Transport endpoint is not connected, retries left: 2
[10-08-14 09:50:54.1682] Plugins::Spotify::Settings::__ANON__ (134) error fetching status: Connect timed out: Transport endpoint is not connected, retries left: 1
[10-08-14 09:50:54.4719] Plugins::Spotify::Settings::__ANON__ (134) error fetching status: Connect timed out: Transport endpoint is not connected, retries left: 0
[10-08-14 09:58:34.7369] Slim::Formats::XML::gotErrorViaHTTP (332) Error: getting http://192.168.1.3:9001/playlists.json
Connect timed out: Transport endpoint is not connected
[10-08-14 09:58:40.3054] Slim::Formats::XML::gotErrorViaHTTP (332) Error: getting http://192.168.1.3:9001/playlists.json
Connect timed out: Transport endpoint is not connected
[10-08-14 10:15:22.8279] Slim::Formats::XML::gotErrorViaHTTP (332) Error: getting http://192.168.1.3:9001/playlists.json
Connect timed out: Transport endpoint is not connected

Thank you for any help if you have the time.

Best Regards
David Lussi

[10-08-14 09:50:53.4963] Plugins::Spotify::Spotifyd::startD (33) unable to write log file: /var/log/squeezeboxserver/spotifyd.log

I suspect this is a permissions issue - could you try creating the log file and ensuring the squeezebox user can write to it.