Spotty requires a player

[jvromans@squirrel.nl]

Hi,

I wanted to use Spotty to look up one of the albums on my Spotify
favorites. To my suprise I got the message "cannot use spotify
services without a player". My players were offline, but why can't I just
look up my library?

[mherger]

> I wanted to use Spotty to look up one of the albums on my Spotify
> favorites. To my suprise I got the message "cannot use spotify
> services without a player". My players were offline, but why can't I just
> look up my library?

As you can have multiple accounts with Spotty, each account setting is
tied to a player. No player, no account.

Could it be implemented differently? Sure. But who'd run LMS without a
player? :-) Fire up a Squeezeplay and you're good.

--

Michael

[jvromans@squirrel.nl]

Please note that this question is out of curiosity and not a complaint or
issue.

On Fri, 18 Dec 2020 23:23:00 +0100, Michael Herger <slim (AT) herger (DOT) net> wrote:

> As you can have multiple accounts with Spotty, each account setting is
> tied to a player. No player, no account.

Interesting... My account is registered with the Spotty plugin and
since I'm not using Spotify Connect there is no connection between the
plugin and a player.

> But who'd run LMS without a player? :-)

I have the habit of switching off devices that are note in use. So
my players are usually off .

> Fire up a Squeezeplay and you're good.

Indeed. Starting a squeezelite solves it. But since this is an arbitrary
player, this merely ephasises that the account - player connection is
unused.

-- Johan

[mherger]

> Please note that this question is out of curiosity and not a complaint or
> issue.

No worries!

>> As you can have multiple accounts with Spotty, each account setting is
>> tied to a player. No player, no account.
>
> Interesting... My account is registered with the Spotty plugin and
> since I'm not using Spotify Connect there is no connection between the
> plugin and a player.

My explanation probably was a bit technical. It described the way how
it's implemented. It could certainly be changed to allow browsing
without a player. But it would complicate things for a rather exotic use
case.

--

Michael