New Volumio Spotify Plugin Open Beta-Testing

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#569

I have the same issue on my brand new Volumio Rivo streamer.

It takes patience, endurance, multiple attempts, but in the end I get it to work. And when it works, it’s quite stable too.

#570

plugin version 3.07
volumio version: 3.396 release Sun 04 dec

When I play from Spotify iOs and Desktop. I can change volume
[SpotifyConnect] Volume Spotify: 38.70908674753949 Volumio: 39

When the next song starts volume is set to 100 again
[SpotifyConnect] Volume Spotify: 100 Volumio: 100

I will try a full reset, since my Volumio has been running for months.
→ after reset , same volume issue.

With plugin version 3.04 , issue not present.

Log file present for both situations. Let me know if you’d like to see them. I’m not sure if there is confidential data in them, so I won’t share them here.

#571

I was a bit too optimistic here, tonight I barely got it to work. This might become a showstopper for my brand new Rivo…

#572

No improvements here for me, same annoying volume changes, and multiple dropouts needing reboots.

This is a community plugin, not part of the core Volumio…

It’s not like they advertise Spotify… :roll_eyes:

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#573

Fair point McMuffin. That’s not what I meant to say.

It’s not that I blame Volumio, but for me Spotify is my main source for listening music. So the inconvenience is actually quite big for me, and could mean I have to find my solution elsewhere.

The ‘bad’ thing is though, the Volumio Rivo sounds so darn good! That makes it hard to return it :pleading_face:

#574

It’s exactly why I created my plugin Dstmmix, please try it !

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#575

I guess my comment’s tone was lost…

The distinction of functionality via core code or a community plugin is just semantics, when all these streamers are sold advertising Spotify support.

Given the time that has passed, priorities of the developers is pretty clear, so you won’t be the only one jumping ship…

#576

Hi Huubster.
Can you clarify 2 things?

  • If I recall correctly, you were asked to put plugins in test mode to install pandora. then you installed the spotify plugin. Given what we discovered lately (a glitch in the plugin system). Can you:
  • Disable plugin test mode
  • Uninstall spotify plugin
  • Restart
  • Install the spotify plugin
  • Check which version is installed and report back here please
  • Let us know also if it works, and how you use it (via Connect functionality or via browsing via the UI)

Thanks

In any case, for products, we’ve initiated the official Spotify integration request. We’ve not heard from them yet. But our plan for products is to deliver official implementation (given that Spotify grants us the SDK).

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#577

Weren’t you gone?

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#578

Hi Volumio,

Thanks for reaching out, really appreciated.

I think you hold me for someone else, I’m not aware of that request to me. I also haven’t done that (yet). But no worries, I’m happy to help and share my experiences to make things clearer :slight_smile: I’m a newby to Volumio, so here is my short story:

  1. When I received my Rivo about a week ago, I installed Spotify Plugin, which was 3.06 at that time if I remember correctly
  2. It was somewhere this weekend that I updated the Spotify plugin to version 3.07
  3. For me nothing changed, connecting from Spotify to Rivo is still not working all the time

Initially I only used the Spotify app itself, so the Connect functionality. Later on I discovered the Volumio UI. If the Rivo is not showing up in Spotify app, 2 distinct situations occurred to me:

  1. Spotify UI in the Volumio UI was not available, as if the Spotify plugin was not installed (it did show up in ‘installed plugins’ though)
    or
  2. I was in the Spotify UI of Volumio and loading pages, playlists or starting a song was not working

So the Volumio UI seems not to be a work-around for me if Spotify connect is not working.

If you want me to try some other things like test mode etc, please let me know.

Grtz,
Huub

#579

Hi,

I’ve looked at your link where you explain how your plugin works. I’m not a software tinkerer myself, though I’m in IT, hehe. I’m not a RPi user of any sort, I bought the Rivo for a reason, amongst which being a complete solution for a nitwit like me. It seems like a hassle to make it work, won’t I interfere with the Out of the Box software of the Rivo if I do all that kind of stuff?

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#580

you can basically benefit from a working LMS install that will help you enjoy your music instead of waiting volumio team fix every single music service that are broken/unstable lately. It’s off topic here but I didn’t want to let you without solution

#581

Could still be a good idea to reinstall the plugin so you are sure that is correctly installed, since there was an issue earlier that not the latest version was supplied from the plugin section.

  • Uninstall spotify plugin
  • Restart
  • Install the spotify plugin
#582

I did that during my test this week-en and it did the trick for me on my old primo :+1:

#583

Thanks for the tip. I just did so, let’s see what happens!

#584

Yeah, for me both 3.0.6 and 3.0.7 have been rather stable without any hickups on my Primo mk1

#585

And then with plugin test mode disabled? I must be lucky because since I updated the plugin to 3.07 (test mode still enabled and not an uninstall/restart/install), everything is working really well. As I’ve backed up my SD card I’ll try testing with the suggested method anyway.

#586

I’ve only installed the stable versions, so never activated the test mode for plugins.

#587

OK, I did …

  • plugin uninstall
  • plugin test mode off
  • restart
  • plugin v3.0.7 install

Everything still working very well, selecting tracks via plugin and via my phone’s spotify app.

#588

While trying to follow these instructions, I get an error trying to uninstall version 3.0.6.

An error occurred while uninstalling the plugin: Error

How do you get around that? I’ve tried rebooting a couple times already.

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