Spotty 4.7.0

[stereoptic]

> It's a feature, not a bug: Spotify either discovers players in your
network, or asks Spotify's servers whether there was any device
connected which you recently used. The latter is the case when you're
seeing devices at home while on the road. This feature can be disabled
in the Spotify apps.

thanks for that. i'll take a look in the settings for that.

>

You can only ever play to one single Spotify Connect endpoint at any
time. So if playback starts in your car, all other devices would stop.
How this transfer happens is another question. It could be something
about the players, or the apps you use to control them (USBAudioPlayer,
Spotify, LMS...)

Ah, got it! In order to stay out of the doghouse, i don't dare touch it while she is working!
I'll drill down a little further and check all settings to attempt to find the 'leakage' point.

[TomTurtle]

Sorry, how can I 'enable debug logging for plugin.spotty' ?

[Paul Webster]

Sorry, how can I 'enable debug logging for plugin.spotty' ?

From the Default web interface to LMS ... bottom right of the screen
Settings/Advanced/Logging
then scroll down .. they are ordered alphabetically.
No need to restart LMS.

[TomTurtle]

From the Default web interface to LMS ... bottom right of the screen
Settings/Advanced/Logging
then scroll down .. they are ordered alphabetically.
No need to restart LMS.

Thank you!

[TomTurtle]

> I reproduced it now using the Android-Spotify app:
> [22-01-24 10:45:03.9224] Plugins::Spotty::API::__ANON__ (1438) API call:
> playlists/0hqXvXIavFHIjGqiZyOAKa:recommended/tracks?limit=50&market=from_token

Ok, as you seem to be able to reproduce this reliably: please enable
debug logging for plugin.spotty, do your thing to reproduce this, then
please send your full server.log.zip to
https://www.dropbox.com/request/T3RctyzGgNg0oFDubq6a. I'd really like to
understand what is going on here. You simply click the play symbol over
the artwork of a recommended track? I don't know why that would add (or
rather try to add) a playlist, rather than a single track...

And then disable logging again, as it's creating a ton of output :-).

Hi, I tried to reproduce the problem. Started a song from the recommendations, automatically played the next song, then I skipped to the next and Spotty got stuck. I uploaded the server.log.zip to your dropbox.

[bossanova808]

So are others seeing the issue with Spotty stopping a few seconds into a song, pausing about 10 seconds, then carrying on (sometimes) or just outright stopping? Doesn't happen on 100% of songs, but most of them. Has started in the last week or two.

I have checked, am not using British English in LMS, I have re-authorised Spotty (after deleting everything in the cache dir related to spotty). No other network issues/changes and we use Spotty here daily for the last few years without issues.

(LMS running as a docker, updated just now, with latest everything. Clients are mainly Booms).

[mherger]

> Hi, I tried to reproduce the problem. Started a song from the
> recommendations, automatically played the next song, then I skipped to
> the next and Spotty got stuck. I uploaded the server.log.zip to your
> dropbox.

Thank you very much! That should be very helpful! And don't forget to
disable the verbose logging again.

[mherger]

> Hi, I tried to reproduce the problem. Started a song from the
> recommendations, automatically played the next song, then I skipped to
> the next and Spotty got stuck.

I believe the ":recommended" lookup failure has been a red hering all
the time. Yes, it's something that should not happen. But it likely has
nothing to do with what is stopping playback. Here's what I understand
happened:

- around 18:57 playback of Tori Amos' "A Sorta Fairytale" (5:28) started
- around 19:03:00 Spotty requested the next track, as we approached the
end of the previous track
- around 19:03:11 Tanita Tikaram started "Valentine Heart" (4:06)
- 19:04:43 Spotify told Spotty to play the next track (likely you
hitting the "Next" button): "Got called from spotty helper for
00:04:20:...: change"
- 19:04:44 Spotty is told next should be REM's "Everybody hurts" (5:20)
- 19:04:47 another "Next" event
- 19:04:48 next track is Pink's "Dear Mr. President"
- 19:04:48.5609 Spotify tells us to stop playback

And during all this time there are some of those failures to lookup
tracks for the :recommend playlist. And something else seems to be have
one of your Spotify playlists queued up in Spotty/LMS mode? Bryan Ferry,
Jason Mraz, A Fine Frenzy, Cranberries, Maroon 5... tracks are looked up
regularly.

Does this make sense?

So whatever is causing the playback to stop, we're not really closer.
But I don't think it's the ":recommended" appendix in the playlist URI.
Would playback end, too, if you didn't hit "Next" but just let it play?
Is it nearing the end of the recommendations in the Spotify app?

Would you be able to modify one of the plugin's files?

[TomTurtle]

I tested again. Songs sometimes stop during playback (in the middle of the song) without any user interaction. When I press play again, the Spotify app shows that it's playing again, but Spotty doesn't do anything. When I then select another song, playback works again.
If you tell me what to modify I can try...

[mherger]

> If you tell me what to modify I can try...

If I knew it would be built in...