New Volumio Spotify Plugin Open Beta-Testing

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i had the volume-resetting-after-each-song issue mentioned above: New Volumio Spotify Plugin Open Beta-Testing - #637 by heini88

downgrading 3.0.7 to 3.0.4 fixed the issue to me also. hopefully this helps isolate the issue with current versions.

654

Same problem but I think the 3.0.4 version also have issues, right?

655

is this plugin about to get any love soon,? or do I need to look for alternatives :frowning:

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Spotify works perfectly well on my Volumio but only for a short time then it loses its log in credentials. If I log out and in again it will once again work but only for hours or a few days, never for weeks. It is so annoying that I’m under intense domestic pressure to ditch Volumio for something else - and I’d rather not. Any ideas?

My log posting can be found at http://logs.volumio.org/volumio/UqI5zRF.html.

Cheers

Geoff
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Same volume-reseting-problems here on the latest version using spotify connect controlling the volume within Spotify. But for me the volume does not reset at the next song, but the moment the volume pop up disappears.

658

I’m facing the exactly same issue as direwolf08 has described. (on a Raspberry PI)
Aso the log locks the same - when it spotify stops playing is shows “[Vollibrespot] : SessionError: Connection reset by peer (os error 104)”.

It is the same error when I play via spotify connect or in the UI. And I tried it with wired connection too.
(But I don’t believe that it is because of the network - the youtube plugin works fine and has no connection issue.)
I’m on the Version 3.0.7 but tried it also with version 3.0.4 etc.
I very much like this approach to stream Spotify on a small device headless - but is is really disappointing each time when it stops. I also shared a log with the Volumio Support, but they pointed me to this forum as the plugin is 3rd party.
So any help is very much appreciated!

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659

Greetings!

I am running version 3.423, with Spotify plugin 3.0.7. What I experience is the following: when I click on a song in a list in Spotify (e.g. in a list of search results), the plugin starts playing the NEXT song, and I can never start the very first. Any clue from anybody why this is happening? Otherwise seems working, with some inconveniences, like when I pause a song for a longer period, cannot continue it, have to start another one, but I can live with that.

Regards,

Gergő

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660

I have exactly the same behavior!

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Working on it :wink:

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662

now solved, the problem was in the reclocker that was in between that caused the spotify stream to stop.

663

Fantastic news! Thanks a lot for the update.

664

could librespot be installed in console (latest version) like in the old days?

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Hi guys,
a big rework of Spotify plugin is in the works, and testing done over the weekend showed really promising improvements.
We hope to release it soon

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667

Great news, have fun coding that

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awesome news, thank you guys

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Hey all! Anyone else having an issue with any music being played over Spotify Connect immediately pausing after hitting play? I can’t get any song to play for more than a second.

Hopefully the new plugin solves this!

Edit: A reflash and rebuild of Volumio has fixed this issue for now, but I can’t wait for the updates. Anything to make Spotify more stable is welcome in my book!

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670

Fantastic news!

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Awesome let me know if you want early beta testing again. Happy to help out with that!

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Ciao!

We have released an update to the spotify plugin (3.0.8). Please update from the plugins store, reboot your device and enjoy!

This update has improvements for playlists, gapless playback and volume control. If there are any issues, please put your issue with logs in this thread.

Technical explination for playlist handling
In previous versions of the spotify plugin, when playing from the volumio UI, the playlist would be handled by Volumio. This means that after every track Volumio had to start a new track. This caused a lot of issues and made it impossible to have gapless playback.

In the new version we send the complete playlist or album to spotify. This has the following advantages:

  • The playlist is also available in the spotify app
  • The next track can be preloaded for gapless playback
  • The Volumio UI becomes more responsive

Technical limitations:

  • When the current queue is changed on Volumio side it will not be synced to Spotify. To sync, stop playback and start a track from the edited queue.
  • We can only send the bottom part of the queue, so when an album is started from track 2, track one will not be available from the spotify playlist.
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I’ve been switching between Spotify playlists within the updated plugin and via Spotify on my phone. So far, so perfect. Seems to start a bit quicker as well and the right song is displayed on my screen immediately.
Note, you do need to login to Spotify again after updating and rebooting.

Thanks for all the hard work!

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