[Announce] Spotty 2.3.0 - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

[mherger]

> Thought it's based on librespot and Spotify-connect-web which do use
> python

librespot is written in Rust, doesn't use Python. Spotify-connect-web is
some outdated project.

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Michael

[mherger]

[Announce] Spotty 2.3.0 - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

As people keep asking about a changelog, I'm going to start a new thread for every worthy release. Until I forget about that routine, again :-).

What's new in Spotty v2.3.0?

• added support for replay gain
• allow to pick the helper you'd like to use
• new helper version v0.11.0

Replay Gain (Volume Normalization) is optional, defaults to enabled, if you've chosen any of the normalization options in LMS. But you can enable/disable it independently. Check Settings/Player/Spotty.

The option to pick the helper binary to use is only available if there's more than one binary available for your platform. This should help in situations we've seen where a binary would pass the quick test, but then fail in use. In this case (and ONLY in this case!) you can try to use one of the other available helper applications. Do not mess with that setting, unless you know what you're doing. And if you experience sudden failure, double-check the setting, whether you accidentally chose the wrong helper.

Enjoy the music!

[godIsInTheRadio]

Sync player display with navigation in web ui

Hi Michael,

and first of all a huge thank you for this great plugin - should be that with the biggest add-value according to my kids...
Is it possible to sync the spotty plugin display state with the chosen player in web-ui?
To better explain: if a different player is chosen in the web-ui, usually all that is done in the left side-panel further on applies to that player. Not so with the spotty plugin. If I change player, it still displays the account related to the player initially chosen. If I switch account, this applies to the player initially chosen.

Thanks for having a look at this.

Marcus

[wbree]

Thanks Michael for the changelog!

I have another question for you. If I want, for some reason, downgrade to an earlier version of Spotty, how can that be done?

Wilco

[IvRak]

Replay Gain seems to work.

For me, though, it wasn't enabled by default, even though I have replaygain set to dynamic.

Minor thing though, I got it enabled and it works fine.

Thank you for your efforts, and a really fast reaction to my first query about it

I'm of to enjoy some music....

[IvRak]

Now that I have been enjoying the music, I have one question.

For all of the time I have been using Spotty, once in a very seldom while, I experience that playback stops when one number ends and the next one should start.

The SB3 shows that the previous tune is playing with 0 seconds remaing, the webinterface shows the same, but playback doesn't carry on with the next tune.

I can allways fix it by pushing forward on the remote.

This is a very seldomly seen error, but I did experience it today after upgrading to Spotty 2.3.0. Music can play for hours, and then suddenly stop. It only resumes when I intervene.

Any ideas what could be the cause?

My setup is the latest LMS 7.9.1 inside a docker image on a Rockstor based NAS.

[edwin2006]

Now that I have been enjoying the music, I have one question.

For all of the time I have been using Spotty, once in a very seldom while, I experience that playback stops when one number ends and the next one should start.

The SB3 shows that the previous tune is playing with 0 seconds remaing, the webinterface shows the same, but playback doesn't carry on with the next tune.

I can allways fix it by pushing forward on the remote.

This is a very seldomly seen error, but I did experience it today after upgrading to Spotty 2.3.0. Music can play for hours, and then suddenly stop. It only resumes when I intervene.

Any ideas what could be the cause?

My setup is the latest LMS 7.9.1 inside a docker image on a Rockstor based NAS.

Same here when playing a internet stream but (as far as I can reproduce) only on squeezelite player. SB radio always continue to play.

[mherger]

[Announce] Spotty 2.3.0 - SpotifyConnect for your Squeezebox

> I have another question for you. If I want, for some reason, downgrade
> to an earlier version of Spotty, how can that be done?

Search the forums. I've described it before.

But if there's a reason to downgrade I'd prefer to know about the
reason. I won't be wasting my time again to describe the downgrade
procedure, just to be asked why an update didn't install automatically
afterwards...

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Michael

[mherger]

[Announce] Spotty 2.3.0 - SpotifyConnect for your Squeezebox

> Any ideas what could be the cause?

I don't know how often I've asked for more information... Are you using
Connect mode or LMS mode? What does the server.log say?

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Michael

[IvRak]

I don't know how often I've asked for more information... Are you using
Connect mode or LMS mode? What does the server.log say?
l

I'm running in LMS mode. I rarely use connect mode.

The server.log says nothing.

2018-04-02 08:26:54 squeezeboxserver_safe stopped.
2018-04-02 08:27:17 squeezeboxserver_safe started.
[18-04-02 08:27:18.2673] main::init (387) Starting Logitech Media Server (v7.9.1, 1522249619, Wed Mar 28 17:14:23 CEST 2018) perl 5.018002 - x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi

You see me manually stopping the server/docker at 08:26, and restarting it at 08:27. Since then nothing.

There is probably some kind of logging I must enable?

[CappuD]

Cannot authorize Spotify account after upgrading to 2.3

Dear Michael,

I'm a big fan of Spotty.

I'm running it on an Odroid XU4 running Debian 7 and LMS 7.8.

Today I upgraded to Spotty 2.3 and unfortunately Spotty can no longer login into my Spotify account.
I can see 'Spotify Authorization' under 'Devices Available' in Spotify on my Win10 laptop but nothing happens when I click it and it does not help to manually put in my username and password.

If I install Triodes Spotify plugin for LMS I can playback from Spotify, but I much prefer your plugin.

Br.,

CappuD

[mherger]

[Announce] Spotty 2.3.0 - SpotifyConnect for your Squeezebox

> Today I upgraded to Spotty 2.3 and unfortunately Spotty can no longer
> login into my Spotify account.

Can you check Settings/Advanced/Spotty, what helper application you're
using? If you have the choice, could you please try other options for
the helper?

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Michael

[CappuD]

> Today I upgraded to Spotty 2.3 and unfortunately Spotty can no longer
> login into my Spotify account.

Can you check Settings/Advanced/Spotty, what helper application you're
using? If you have the choice, could you please try other options for
the helper?

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Michael

Hi again Michael,

I cannot get past the authorization screen to see advanced settings for Spotty.

Br.,

CappuD

[quadronado]

I hope this is the right thread for my question:

When I search Spotty through the LMS, I'm missing an option for playing a song or an album next to the playing song. I can only add the song or album to the end of the current playlist. Is it possible to add the option "play next" with the next update.

[CappuD]

Hi again Michael,

I cannot get past the authorization screen to see advanced settings for Spotty.

Br.,

CappuD

So I uninstalled LMS 7.8 and updated to 7.9.1 and now the authorization works flawlessly!