Music Service Integration

[Ron F.]

Are there any Spotty users who wanted to give this a try? It's all early days, but basic functionality is working (for me :-)). As it's really early it would be great if you could deal with git clones... If there was interest I'd start a new thread to cover the details.

I am a Spotty & Qobuz user, and would like to give it a try if you create a repository on Github.

[Ron F.]

slimserver branch public/feature/online-library-integration ???

[mherger]

> slimserver branch public/feature/online-library-integration ???

Yes, and
https://github.com/michaelherger/Spo...ry-integration.
Work in progress.

Please see http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111442 for more detailed instructions.

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Michael

[Ron F.]

> slimserver branch public/feature/online-library-integration ???

Yes, and
https://github.com/michaelherger/Spo...ry-integration.
Work in progress.

Please see http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111442 for more detailed instructions.

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Michael

I have it working, and my initial impression is that this is going to be a very cool feature Michael.

Searching by artist name, my Spotify albums appear ... very nice indeed. However, when I select "More" for an album, I don't see that the album is coming from Spotty rather than my own local library; it would be useful to see that kind of info for the album.

If I drill down and then select "More" for a track on a Spotify album, then I see the genre has been set to "Spotify" - so then I know. Of course, once playing an album from Spotify, the bitrate will show as 320k.

From my perspective, I think what is going to make this a really powerful feature is if it can ultimately work for Qobuz. My local library is 100% FLAC, and so is everything I play on Qobuz.

I usually don't play albums on Spotify, rather I like the service for it's extensive library of playlists, which I find very nice when working. For example, right now I am listening to "Cozy Acoustic Morning" while sipping my latte. I don't know if my usage of streaming services is a typical case.

[mherger]

> Searching by artist name, my Spotify albums appear ... very nice indeed.
> However, when I select "More" for an album, I don't see that the album
> is coming from Spotty rather than my own local library; it would be
> useful to see that kind of info for the album.

Noted.

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Michael

[Ron F.]

Spotty testing: something I noticed, and I should have seen this sooner, is that the Spotify "Genres and Moods" list is coming up empty! The other Spotify lists look correct.

I don't see anything in the log that indicates a problem related to this, that particular list is just not being populated.

When I start the git cloned slimserver however, I do see the following, which I do not see when starting the conventional non-git slimserver and Spotty plugin:

[20-01-06 02:32:08.2439] main::init (387) Starting Logitech Media Server (v7.9.2, git-b832ac5d2, 2020-01-05 08:06:06 +0100) perl 5.026001 - x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi
[20-01-06 02:32:10.3969] Slim::Web::Cometd::handler (422) errorNeedsClient: 00:04:20:23:c4:ce, status, -, 10, menu:menu, useContextMenu:1, subscribe:600

[mherger]

> Spotty testing: something I noticed, and I should have seen this sooner,
> is that the Spotify "Genres and Moods" list is coming up empty! The
> other Spotify lists look correct.

Thanks! I'm seeing the same here. Will look into this.

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Michael

[mherger]

> Thanks! I'm seeing the same here. Will look into this.

git pull your Spotty checkout please :-)

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Michael

[Ron F.]

> Thanks! I'm seeing the same here. Will look into this.

git pull your Spotty checkout please :-)

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Michael

I did a git pull for the Spotty library-integration branch, but I do not see any new commits? Am I looking at the correct branch?

[mherger]

> I did a git pull for the Spotty library-integration branch, but I do not
> see any new commits? Am I looking at the correct branch?

Oops... sorry, forgot to push to Github... please try again.

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Michael