[Announce] Spotty 4.4 - more personalised content

[mherger]

v4.4.0 introduces two new features:

• More personalized content from Spotify
• Select which accounts to import

The first one is somewhat experimental: Spotty v4.4.0 allows you to get the Home/Start menu items as found on open.spotify.com. Unfortunately these are neither 100% identical to what you get in the Spotify apps, nor available through any documented web API. In order to use that feature you'll have to provide a session cookie from open.spotify.com. Please see the instruction as linked in Spotty's setup pages info bullet.

The second feature is particularly interesting in a Spotify Family setup: you don't want your kids' music imported into your LMS library (using LMS8+). This new feature allows you to define which accounts you want to import, and which ones you want to leave alone.

[Bafpund]

Great, a solution within 48 hours. You're not losing time

I installed the new version and everything seems to be fine. Thank you very much!

[TomekWaw]

I'm on 4.4.0 and my Connect devices have disappeared. There are those records in server.log:

[20-09-20 20:51:01.0764] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::DaemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: aa:aa:a7:9a:1f:fa Sypialnia
[20-09-20 20:51:01.0790] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::DaemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: aa:aa:50:9d:c0:36 Salon
[20-09-20 20:51:01.0795] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::DaemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: aa:aa:b7:f2:45:af Przedpokój
[20-09-20 20:51:01.0799] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::DaemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: 02:00:22:59:b0:2f Cały dom
[20-09-20 20:51:01.0803] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::DaemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: aa:aa:8a:f3:d6:c5 Łazienka

Above that there are some more errors, but I'm not sure if they are anyway related to Spotty:

[20-09-20 20:46:57.3287] Slim::Control::Request::renderAsArray (2233) Error: request should set useIxHashes in Slim::Control::Request->new()
[20-09-20 20:46:57.3294] Slim::Control::Request::renderAsArray (2233) Backtrace:

   frame 0: Slim::Utils::Log::logBacktrace (/usr/share/perl5/Slim/Control/Request.pm line 2233)
   frame 1: Slim::Control::Request::renderAsArray (/usr/share/perl5/Slim/Plugin/CLI/Plugin.pm line 697)
   frame 2: Slim::Plugin::CLI::Plugin::cli_request_write (/usr/share/perl5/Slim/Plugin/CLI/Plugin.pm line 1010)
   frame 3: Slim::Plugin::CLI::Plugin::cli_subscribe_notification (/usr/share/perl5/Slim/Control/Request.pm line 2058)
   frame 4: (eval) (/usr/share/perl5/Slim/Control/Request.pm line 2058)
   frame 5: Slim::Control::Request::notify (/usr/share/perl5/Slim/Control/Request.pm line 859)
   frame 6: Slim::Control::Request::checkNotifications (/usr/sbin/squeezeboxserver line 708)
   frame 7: main::idle (/usr/sbin/squeezeboxserver line 677)
   frame 8: main::main (/usr/sbin/squeezeboxserver line 1210)

[20-09-20 20:46:57.3504] Slim::Control::Request::renderAsArray (2233) Error: request should set useIxHashes in Slim::Control::Request->new()
[20-09-20 20:46:57.3511] Slim::Control::Request::renderAsArray (2233) Backtrace:

   frame 0: Slim::Utils::Log::logBacktrace (/usr/share/perl5/Slim/Control/Request.pm line 2233)
   frame 1: Slim::Control::Request::renderAsArray (/usr/share/perl5/Slim/Plugin/CLI/Plugin.pm line 697)
   frame 2: Slim::Plugin::CLI::Plugin::cli_request_write (/usr/share/perl5/Slim/Plugin/CLI/Plugin.pm line 1010)
   frame 3: Slim::Plugin::CLI::Plugin::cli_subscribe_notification (/usr/share/perl5/Slim/Control/Request.pm line 2058)
   frame 4: (eval) (/usr/share/perl5/Slim/Control/Request.pm line 2058)
   frame 5: Slim::Control::Request::notify (/usr/share/perl5/Slim/Control/Request.pm line 859)
   frame 6: Slim::Control::Request::checkNotifications (/usr/sbin/squeezeboxserver line 708)
   frame 7: main::idle (/usr/sbin/squeezeboxserver line 677)
   frame 8: main::main (/usr/sbin/squeezeboxserver line 1210)

Any hints welcome, I really use that Spotify Connect options

[mherger]

> Any hints welcome, I really use that Spotify Connect options

Restart your LMS or computer as a starter.

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Michael

[mherger]

> Great, a solution within 48 hours. You're not losing time

Well, I bit the bullet and got a family account today :-)

--

Michael

[TomekWaw]

> Any hints welcome, I really use that Spotify Connect options
Restart your LMS or computer as a starter.

That was the very first thing i did. I've restarted LMS first and then RPi. That didn't help.

[TomekWaw]

I have some new info.
I've noticed there are some binary inputs in the log file (PuTTyPuTTyPuTTyPuTTyPuTTyPuTTyPuTTy - you know).
So I cleared the log and restarted RPi again.
Situation is different now - I have 17 errors with useIxHashes (yeah, seems like on boot only):

root@ms4home:~# cat /var/log/squeezeboxserver/server.log|grep "Error: request should set useIxHashes" |wc -l
17

but no error from Spotty anymore.
Unfortunately, no LMS Zones on Spotify Connect also

[BoomX2]

v4.4.0 introduces two new features:

• More personalized content from Spotify

The first one is somewhat experimental: Spotty v4.4.0 allows you to get the Home/Start menu items as found on open.spotify.com. Unfortunately these are neither 100% identical to what you get in the Spotify apps, nor available through any documented web API. In order to use that feature you'll have to provide a session cookie from open.spotify.com. Please see the instruction as linked in Spotty's setup pages info bullet.

Works nice. Easy to get the cookie value using your instructions. Thank you for adding this.

[TomekWaw]

but no error from Spotty anymore.
Unfortunately, no LMS Zones on Spotify Connect also

Eventually Spotty has logged its errors:

[20-09-20 22:24:45.0680] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::DaemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: aa:aa:a7:9a:1f:fa Sypialnia
[20-09-20 22:24:45.0686] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::DaemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: aa:aa:8a:f3:d6:c5 Łazienka
[20-09-20 22:24:45.0712] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::DaemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: 02:00:22:59:b0:2f Cały dom
[20-09-20 22:24:45.0719] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::DaemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: aa:aa:b7:f2:45:af Przedpokój
[20-09-20 22:24:45.0724] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::DaemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: aa:aa:50:9d:c0:36 Salon
[20-09-20 23:35:49.0814] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::DaemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: aa:aa:a7:9a:1f:fa Sypialnia
[20-09-20 23:35:49.0827] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::DaemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: aa:aa:8a:f3:d6:c5 Łazienka
[20-09-20 23:35:49.0836] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::DaemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: aa:aa:50:9d:c0:36 Salon
[20-09-20 23:35:49.0845] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::DaemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: aa:aa:b7:f2:45:af Przedpokój
[20-09-20 23:35:49.0854] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::DaemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: 02:00:22:59:b0:2f Cały dom
[20-09-21 00:18:52.0738] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::DaemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: aa:aa:8a:f3:d6:c5 Łazienka
[20-09-21 00:18:52.0744] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::DaemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: aa:aa:a7:9a:1f:fa Sypialnia
[20-09-21 00:18:52.0750] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::DaemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: 02:00:22:59:b0:2f Cały dom
[20-09-21 00:18:52.0756] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::DaemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: aa:aa:50:9d:c0:36 Salon
[20-09-21 00:18:52.0762] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::DaemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: aa:aa:b7:f2:45:af Przedpokój
[20-09-21 00:21:52.0685] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::DaemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: aa:aa:a7:9a:1f:fa Sypialnia
[20-09-21 00:21:52.0695] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::DaemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: aa:aa:8a:f3:d6:c5 Łazienka
[20-09-21 00:21:52.0705] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::DaemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: aa:aa:50:9d:c0:36 Salon
[20-09-21 00:21:52.0714] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::DaemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: aa:aa:b7:f2:45:af Przedpokój
[20-09-21 00:21:52.0751] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::DaemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: 02:00:22:59:b0:2f Cały dom
[20-09-21 00:32:53.0619] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::DaemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: aa:aa:8a:f3:d6:c5 Łazienka
[20-09-21 00:32:53.0626] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::DaemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: aa:aa:a7:9a:1f:fa Sypialnia
[20-09-21 00:32:53.0652] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::DaemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: aa:aa:50:9d:c0:36 Salon
[20-09-21 00:32:53.0658] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::DaemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: aa:aa:b7:f2:45:af Przedpokój
[20-09-21 00:32:53.0665] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::DaemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: 02:00:22:59:b0:2f Cały dom
[20-09-21 01:49:57.0692] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::DaemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: 02:00:22:59:b0:2f Cały dom
[20-09-21 01:49:57.0702] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::DaemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: aa:aa:50:9d:c0:36 Salon
[20-09-21 01:49:57.0711] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::DaemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: aa:aa:b7:f2:45:af Przedpokój
[20-09-21 01:49:57.0718] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::DaemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: aa:aa:8a:f3:d6:c5 Łazienka
[20-09-21 01:49:57.0758] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::DaemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: aa:aa:a7:9a:1f:fa Sypialnia

[mherger]

> TomekWaw wrote:
>>
>> but no error from Spotty anymore.
>> Unfortunately, no LMS Zones on Spotify Connect also
>
> Eventually Spotty has logged its errors:
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> [20-09-20 22:24:45.0680] Plugins::Spotty::Connect:aemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: aa:aa:a7:9a:1f:fa Sypialnia

Did anything else about your system change? The latest Spotty update
should not have any impact on the Connect functionality.

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Michael