[Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

[Jaca]

> I'm running LMS 8.0.0 on Synology NAS so no Spotify on system. (Frankly
> not sure I would be willing trying "messy" workaround solution on NAS
> even if there was one)

I still don't know where you got that "messy workaround" from.

Apologies Michael.. probably I misunderstood.. jumping at the moment between different things and confusing myself .
I meant poll (below) .. most likely I need to read it again .. ignore my assumption of anything being "messy".. my bad , sorry

https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?109980-Spotty-and-playlist-folders&highlight=playlist+folders

Here's the tool I wrote to export the folder information from a Spotify
installation and transfer it to Spotty:

http://www.herger.net/spotty/findSpotifyFolderFiles.zip

It's a Windows executable. IIRC you'd call it like

findSpotifyFolderFiles.exe yourserver:9000

Where you put your server's IP or name as "yourserver", and the correct
port as you're using it to access the web UI.

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Michael

Thank you !!

I assume I run it now and then whenever need to update folder structure? I will definitely check it out. Cheers!

[mherger]

[Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate locallibrary with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

> I meant poll (below) .. most likely I need to read it again .. ignore my
> assumption of anything being "messy".. my bad , sorry

Ah, got it. No worries.

> I assume I run it now and then whenever need to update folder structure?
> I will definitely check it out. Cheers!

Yes, that's correct.

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Michael

[Jaca]

playlist folders imported yay!

Amazing !!! Thank you Michael.

I cannot believe I've missed this before.. its all documented within Spotty settings..

I had some troubles as my Spotify have different patch:
"..\AppData\Local\Packages\SpotifyAB.SpotifyMusic_ zpdnekdrzrea0\LocalState\Spotify\Storage\.. "
Later I realized it probably because I got Windows Store version.. but I have run it in vbox with normal version installed ("..\AppData\Local\Spotify\Storage") and it works just fine

ps.. Am I right thinking its possible to tweak playlists/folders order now somehow?
Cheers!

[mherger]

[Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate locallibrary with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

> ps.. Am I right thinking its possible to tweak playlists/folders order
> now somehow?
The only way is to modify it in Spotify, then re-sync using that helper
application. That's the "poor" about the workaround :-)

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Michael

[Jaca]

ohh that's me being silly again.. I have asked about it as I forgot I can just drag them within Spotify to change order..

[luigi2000]

Shuffle not working correctly with Spotify connect

When I use the Spotify connect mode and play my favorite songs in shuffle mode (around 800 songs) always the same songs are played. I think it is just the last added 50 songs or so. The older songs are never played. Is this a known issue?

My setup is LMS 8 on raspberry pi 3 with picoreplayer 6.1., spotty 4.2.

[mherger]

[Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate locallibrary with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

> When I use the Spotify connect mode and play my favorite songs in
> shuffle mode (around 800 songs) always the same songs are played. I
> think it is just the last added 50 songs or so. The older songs are
> never played. Is this a known issue?

I can't reproduce this. Are you shuffling in Spotify or LMS?

What helper version are you using (see Settings/Advanced/Spotty)?


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Michael

[luigi2000]

> When I use the Spotify connect mode and play my favorite songs in
> shuffle mode (around 800 songs) always the same songs are played. I
> think it is just the last added 50 songs or so. The older songs are
> never played. Is this a known issue?

I can't reproduce this. Are you shuffling in Spotify or LMS?

What helper version are you using (see Settings/Advanced/Spotty)?


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Michael

I use shuffle in the Spotify app on my Android phone.
Helper version: ../Spotty/Bin/arm-linux/spotty-hf (v0.35.0)

[Blue Fishey]

Guys

running Logitech Media Server Version: 8.0.0 - 1593666183

spooty works, try to play playlist you get the below

Running Spotty 4.2

[20-07-02 13:47:08.0098] Slim::Player::Song::open (600) Error: Invalid argument: While creating conversion pipeline for: spotify://track:6dnco8haegnJYtylV26cBq
[20-07-02 13:47:08.0218] Slim::Player::Pipeline::new (44) Error: Couldn't create listen socket for reader: Invalid argument
[20-07-02 13:47:08.0225] Slim::Player::Song::open (600) Error: Invalid argument: While creating conversion pipeline for: spotify://track:6LtPIXlIzPOTF8vTecYjRe
[20-07-02 13:47:08.0359] Slim::Player::Pipeline::new (44) Error: Couldn't create listen socket for reader: Invalid argument
[20-07-02 13:47:08.0364] Slim::Player::Song::open (600) Error: Invalid argument: While creating conversion pipeline for: spotify://track:2bvzxeD1hPWEYotw40Euq9
[20-07-02 13:47:08.0496] Slim::Player::Pipeline::new (44) Error: Couldn't create listen socket for reader: Invalid argument
[20-07-02 13:47:08.0503] Slim::Player::Song::open (600) Error: Invalid argument: While creating conversion pipeline for: spotify://track:0L0T4tMAaGqLgIVj1MOj9t
[20-07-02 13:47:08.0624] Slim::Player::Pipeline::new (44) Error: Couldn't create listen socket for reader: Invalid argument
[20-07-02 13:47:08.0637] Slim::Player::Song::open (600) Error: Invalid argument: While creating conversion pipeline for: spotify://track:42vYxMAWsFpBOS7hgAdzqW
[20-07-02 13:47:08.0767] Slim::Player::Pipeline::new (44) Error: Couldn't create listen socket for reader: Invalid argument
[20-07-02 13:47:08.0774] Slim::Player::Song::open (600) Error: Invalid argument: While creating conversion pipeline for: spotify://track:1or0hUcD0tEJ3kjpYbhRZA
[20-07-02 13:47:08.0894] Slim::Player::Pipeline::new (44) Error: Couldn't create listen socket for reader: Invalid argument
[20-07-02 13:47:08.0900] Slim::Player::Song::open (600) Error: Invalid argument: While creating conversion pipeline for: spotify://track:0mqTcM8kuu2IYPotMt7AzS
[20-07-02 13:47:08.1025] Slim::Player::Pipeline::new (44) Error: Couldn't create listen socket for reader: Invalid argument
[20-07-02 13:47:08.1032] Slim::Player::Song::open (600) Error: Invalid argument: While creating conversion pipeline for: spotify://track:58cQ4wK4k4v8Uh5BjkcHQ3
[20-07-02 13:47:08.1160] Slim::Player::Pipeline::new (44) Error: Couldn't create listen socket for reader: Invalid argument
[20-07-02 13:47:08.1165] Slim::Player::Song::open (600) Error: Invalid argument: While creating conversion pipeline for: spotify://track:70C4NyhjD5OZUMzvWZ3njJ
[20-07-02 13:47:08.1281] Slim::Player::Pipeline::new (44) Error: Couldn't create listen socket for reader: Invalid argument
[20-07-02 13:47:08.1288] Slim::Player::Song::open (600) Error: Invalid argument: While creating conversion pipeline for: spotify://track:5TAf4lnZCZTLlZHNZMLFLi
[20-07-02 13:47:08.1397] Slim::Player::Pipeline::new (44) Error: Couldn't create listen socket for reader: Invalid argument
[20-07-02 13:47:08.1403] Slim::Player::Song::open (600) Error: Invalid argument: While creating conversion pipeline for: spotify://track:0fqP1OK8UuiVK4WdsYCeY3

[Blue Fishey]

This is in the scan input

Spotty Albums (2 of 2) Complete 00:00:02

Spotty Artists (2 of 2) Complete 00:00:00

Spotty Playlists (2 of 2) Complete

[mherger]

[Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate locallibrary with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

Please don't cross-post.

> running Logitech Media Server Version: 8.0.0 - 1593666183
>
> spooty works, try to play playlist you get the below

Please enable INFO logging for plugin.spotty
(Settings/Advanced/Logging), try again, post your server.log. How do you
start playback? Using LMS? The Spotify app?


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Michael

[Blue Fishey]

hi mate using LMS and Squeezelite-X client

I see the below alot

[20-07-02 12:58:57.3065] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::DaemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: 00:04:20:27:dd:dc Gizmo's Radio & Gizmo’s Radio 2
[20-07-02 12:59:57.4701] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::DaemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: 00:04:20:27:dd:dc Gizmo's Radio & Gizmo’s Radio 2
[20-07-02 13:00:57.3185] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::DaemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: 00:04:20:27:dd:dc Gizmo's Radio & Gizmo’s Radio 2

[20-07-03 09:43:56.2789] Slim::Player::Pipeline::new (44) Error: Couldn't create listen socket for reader: Invalid argument
[20-07-03 09:43:56.2792] Slim::Player::Song::open (600) Error: Invalid argument: While creating conversion pipeline for: spotify://track:5GorFaKkP2mLREQvhSblIg


[20-07-03 10:53:12.7246] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::DaemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: 00:04:20:27:dd:dc Gizmo's Radio & Gizmo’s Radio 2
[20-07-03 10:54:12.7154] Plugins::Spotty::API::__ANON__ (1431) API call: me/player/devices
[20-07-03 10:54:12.7157] Plugins::Spotty::API::__ANON__ (1435) error: 429 unknown
[20-07-03 10:54:12.7165] Plugins::Spotty::API::error429 (1493) Access Rate limit exceeded for: me/player/devices; retry after 1 seconds.

[thueri01]

> Here is the link:
> https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37...1EfXt1u1empPSN

Thanks! That's indeed a bug in Spotty. I think I have a fix for playing
this from the Spotty menu, don't know yet about the "My Music" import,
though. Stay tuned!

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Michael

Hello Michael,
I have updated today on Spotty 4.2.0. .
Now Daily Drive runs on all devices.
Thank you for fixing.

[gorman]

Songs skipping to the next one in playlist after a while...

Tried Spotty with Squeezebox Server 7.9.3 - 1579195498 @ Thu Jan 16 21:08:22 WEST 2020 on Windows 10 Pro x64.
Now, I use squeezelite installed on the same machine, to listen on headphones while at my desk. Squeezelite is latest release 1.9.7-1256 available.

When I listen to Spotify songs play just fine for a little while, more than a minute, less than two usually.
And then in logs I see stuff like this:

[20-07-04 02:19:44.0013] Slim::Player::StreamingController::_eventAction (270) bc:5f:f4:bf:3e:70: StatusHeartbeat in PLAYING-STREAMING -> Slim::Player::StreamingController::_CheckSync
[20-07-04 02:19:44.6747] Slim::Player::Source::_readNextChunk (349) Read to end of file or pipe
[20-07-04 02:19:44.6749] Slim::Player::Source::_readNextChunk (372) end of file or error on socket, song pos: 154085619
[20-07-04 02:19:44.6751] Slim::Player::Source::_readNextChunk (377) bc:5f:f4:bf:3e:70 mark end of stream

And playbacks skips to the next song in playlist, rinse and repeat.

Any idea on why? Might it have something to do with Don't Stop the Music plugin? Before I activated it with "Spotify Recommendations (based on the current playlist)" option and it behaved like above. Now I've set it up for "LastMix (local music files only)" and Spotty appears not to skip anymore. Note that I was and I am playing long playlists, so Don't Stop the Music shouldn't have really interacted with the playlist but still... third song now and it's not skipping.



Extra question: Also... I launch squeezelite with these arguments: "-n Headphones -s Music -c flac,pcm,mp3,ogg,aac,wma,dsd -o 17 -a :1". Last argument is for bitperfect playback through WASAPI exclusive. But the thing that I don't understand is why I see SB Server transcoding to flac when the player is configured to handle ogg natively. Operatively it doesn't change a thing, but I'm curious...

[mherger]

[Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate locallibrary with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

> Also... I launch squeezelite with these arguments: "-n Headphones -s
> Music -c flac,pcm,mp3,ogg,aac,wma,dsd -o 17 -a :1". Last argument is for
> bitperfect playback through WASAPI exclusive. But the thing that I don't
> understand is why I see SB Server transcoding to flac when the player is
> configured to handle ogg natively. Operatively it doesn't change a
> thing, but I'm curious...

I'd actually recommend you run squeezelite with the simplest parameters
possible. Quite often tweaking formats and buffers doesn't play nicely
with Spotty (in particular in Connect mode).

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Michael