Online music service integration - how to test

[mherger]

As mentioned in http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111405 I'm working on some code to better integrate music services with the local music library. Albums from your online music service should show up under "My Music", be accessible to random play, quick search etc. This currently is all work in progress. But I'm already using it on my main system at home.

In order to test this new feature there are two easy steps:

• Install Logitech Media Server 8 (http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/?ver=8.0)
• Install the Spotty Beta from my test repository (http://www.herger.net/slim-plugins/test.xml)

Please report back. Have fun!

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FORGET THE REST OF THIS POSTING - I'm only leaving it in here for the really involved

If you want to test this, you'll need a few things:

• you'll need git, and some basic git knowledge (see https://git-scm.com/downloads/guis for GUIs)
• you'll need to be able to run LMS from the source code
• as of this day you'll need to be a Spotty user
• you'll need to be ready to face issues and temporarily broken features

Get LMS in the folder of your choice:

git clone https://github.com/Logitech/slimserver.git

Inside the clone get the working branch:

git checkout --track origin/public/feature/online-library-integration

Create a folder called "Plugins" (uppercase first, s at the end) inside the LMS folder if it doesn't exist yet. Enter that folder and get Spotty:

git clone https://github.com/michaelherger/Spotty-Plugin.git Spotty

Make sure you define the "Spotty" target folder, as that name is expected by the plugin, but does not match the repository name! Enter the Spotty folder and get the correct branch:

git checkout --track origin/library-integration

Head back up to the LMS folder and launch slimserver.pl. During development it can be useful (and overwhelming) to run it with logging for Spotty:

./slimserver.pl --debug plugin.spotty=info

Do whatever magic is required to run this on your system.

Set up Spotty, re-scan your library. You should see two new scan steps dealing with Spotify albums and playlists. Once done the albums show up alongside your own albums in My Music.

You'll currently have to re-scan whenever you want to update the Spotify data in your library. Automatic updates is something I want to add at some point. But it could potentially be heavy on the API services.

Good luck! And please report back your findings!

[mherger]

One stupid limitation probably worth mentioning: Spotify doesn't know the concept of Genres (yet). While there is a field of that name in the metadata, it's usually just empty. Therefore all tracks simply come with the genre "Spotify" right now. I hope they'll change that at some point in the not too distant future...

[Ron F.]

OK, I think I have it working ... at least that is my initial impression. I will do testing and actual usage tomorrow.

[bakker_be]

This has probably been covered elsewhere before, but can't seem to find it ...
For the purpose of this test I'm "quickly" setting up a parallel LMS install, but the only machine I have at my disposal at the moment is a rather recently installed Windows 10 64-bit machine. I installed git, did the check-outs as indicated and also installed Perl. I get the following error when launching slimserver.pl:

C:\Users\Bart Kestelyn\OneDrive\Documents\GitHub\slimserver>perl slimserver.pl
The following CPAN modules were found but cannot work with Logitech Media Server:
  Image::Scale (loaded 0.14 but missing object file, need 0.08)
  XML::Parser:
Parser.pm and Expat.pm versions don't match at C:\Users\Bart Kestelyn\OneDrive\Documents\GitHub\slimserver\CPAN/XML/Parser.pm line 20.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:\Users\Bart Kestelyn\OneDrive\Documents\GitHub\slimserver\CPAN/XML/Parser.pm line 22.
Compilation failed in require at (eval 141) line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 141) line 1.


To fix this problem you have several options:
1. Install the latest version of the module(s) using CPAN: sudo cpan Some::Module
2. Update the module's package using apt-get, yum, etc.
3. Run the .tar.gz version of Logitech Media Server which includes all required CPAN modules.

I probably have a too recent version of Perl, but which one is the right one

[mherger]

> I probably have a too recent version of Perl, but which one is the right
> one

Yeah, on Windows you have to use a rather old version 5.14 - which is no
longer available from ActiveState. I'll PM you a link.

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Michael

[d6jg]

@michael

I have a working LMS on Raspbian cloned from github with Perl 5.28 and IO:Socket:SSL installed

However I am confused - what do you mean by

"Inside the clone get the working branch:"

git checkout --track origin/public/feature/online-library-integration

Inside the slimserver clone I see a .git folder and inside that a branches folder which is empty. Where exactly do I need to run this and the subsequent commands from?

[mherger]

> Code:
> --------------------
> git checkout --track origin/public/feature/online-library-integration
> --------------------
>
>
> Inside the slimserver clone I see a .git folder and inside that a
> branches folder which is empty. Where exactly do I need to run this and
> the subsequent commands from?

Just run above command inside the LMS checkout folder (NOT in the .git
folder).


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Michael

[d6jg]

> Code:
> --------------------
> git checkout --track origin/public/feature/online-library-integration
> --------------------
>
>
> Inside the slimserver clone I see a .git folder and inside that a
> branches folder which is empty. Where exactly do I need to run this and
> the subsequent commands from?

Just run above command inside the LMS checkout folder (NOT in the .git
folder).


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Michael

I get

fatal: 'origin/public/feature/online-library-intergation' is not a commit and a branch 'public/feature/online-library-intergation' cannot be created from it

[mherger]

> Code:
> --------------------
> fatal: 'origin/public/feature/online-library-intergation' is not a commit and a branch 'public/feature/online-library-intergation' cannot be created from it
> --------------------

Maybe you need to

git fetch --all

first...

what would

git status

tell you?

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Michael

[slartibartfast]

I get

fatal: 'origin/public/feature/online-library-intergation' is not a commit and a branch 'public/feature/online-library-intergation' cannot be created from it

Is that because you are spelling "integration" incorrectly?

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