[Announce] Spotty 4.5 - improved Ogg direct, Autoplay, multi-user setup

[slartibartfast]

My woes continue... I did a total new install from scratch with pcp 7.

Still get the red warning message... Looks like Spotty is borked on my system.

Any ideas what I could try now?

I sympathise. I wanted to try going back to 4.4.9 so installed it manually. Then I got the red message about the helper. Going back to 4.5 fixed it but it is so slow. I wanted to compare it it to 4.4.9 as I don't remember that being slow.

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[slartibartfast]

I am actually finding using Spotify Connect is much more responsive than using Spotty on LMS at the moment. That can't be right.

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[castalla]

I sympathise. I wanted to try going back to 4.4.9 so installed it manually. Then I got the red message about the helper. Going back to 4.5 fixed it but it is so slow. I wanted to compare it it to 4.4.9 as I don't remember that being slow.

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The latest from the log is:

21-06-18 22:20:37.4420] Plugins::Spotty::Helper::_findBin (192) Trying helper application: /usr/local/slimserver/Cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/Spotty/Bin/arm-linux/spotty-hf
[21-06-18 22:20:37.5864] Plugins::Spotty::Helper::get (51) Didn't find Spotty helper application!
[21-06-18 22:20:37.5936] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::canSpotifyConnect (84) Cannot support Spotty Connect, need at least helper version 0.12.0
[21-06-18 22:20:37.6160] Plugins::Spotty::Helper::_findBin (192) Trying helper application: /usr/local/slimserver/Cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/Spotty/Bin/arm-linux/spotty-hf
[21-06-18 22:20:37.7139] Plugins::Spotty::Helper::get (51) Didn't find Spotty helper application!

The crazy thing is that the helper file is there in the folder....??!!

[slartibartfast]

I am actually finding using Spotify Connect is much more responsive than using Spotty on LMS at the moment. That can't be right.

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I thought it was too good to be true. When I pause from Spotify Connect the track progress indicator jumps to the end. Pressing play again just starts to increase the track time beyond the end time of the track. Could we have the option to go back to 4.4.9?

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[slartibartfast]

The latest from the log is:

21-06-18 22:20:37.4420] Plugins::Spotty::Helper::_findBin (192) Trying helper application: /usr/local/slimserver/Cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/Spotty/Bin/arm-linux/spotty-hf
[21-06-18 22:20:37.5864] Plugins::Spotty::Helper::get (51) Didn't find Spotty helper application!
[21-06-18 22:20:37.5936] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::canSpotifyConnect (84) Cannot support Spotty Connect, need at least helper version 0.12.0
[21-06-18 22:20:37.6160] Plugins::Spotty::Helper::_findBin (192) Trying helper application: /usr/local/slimserver/Cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/Spotty/Bin/arm-linux/spotty-hf
[21-06-18 22:20:37.7139] Plugins::Spotty::Helper::get (51) Didn't find Spotty helper application!

The crazy thing is that the helper file is there in the folder....??!!

My helper file for 4.5 is spotty-hf (v1.0.0). Is that right?

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[jasell]

> Just updated to 4.5 and I now get â€Failed to get access tokenâ€
>
> Any tip for what to do?

Did you check the server.log? The settings pages? Are you using your own
client ID? Multiple accounts?

A little more information might be helpful...

Hi,
Logging is set to Debug.

Log says failing to access and suggest to reset credentials. Only a general text message, no detailed information.

I have multiple accounts, 4, I deleted the one I use and added it successfully again. Paid service.

I have a client ID registered. It shows correct on Spotify’s app page. I created another app and copied that client ID as well, no difference.

I restarted LMS.

None of my attempts changed error message.

I’m currently off-site, so I cannot give you the exact copy of the log.


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[castalla]

I thought it was too good to be true. When I pause from Spotify Connect the track progress indicator jumps to the end. Pressing play again just starts to increase the track time beyond the end time of the track. Could we have the option to go back to 4.4.9?

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I second that! (although I know that's anathema to developers!)

[slartibartfast]

I second that! (although I know that's anathema to developers!)

I thought it would be simple to just uninstall 4.5 and manually install 4.4.9 but that was when I got the helper issue.

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[castalla]

I thought it would be simple to just uninstall 4.5 and manually install 4.4.9 but that was when I got the helper issue.

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It's a real miss not having Spotify...

[Jaca]

I'm also having weird things going on after latest Spotty update.. My other half has reported that when using connect with squeezelite on libreelec, tv switches itself on and stops Spotify playback.. Apparently Only turning tv off resumes playback..
Need to double check it's not something else but it was all fine before Spotty update..
(Lms 8.2.0 in docker on synology)