New Volumio Spotify Plugin Open Beta-Testing

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I am now trying the new plugin, and there’s a couple of things that are not quite right, but one definite bug that came up immediately.

  • I play something from spotify using volumio interface
  • Then use my mobile/desktop app to control from then on
  • Pressing pause on spotify app causes it to play the next song in the playlist

Logfile: http://logs.volumio.org/volumio/9VMDy3q.html

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When I try and install the Spotify plugin, I get this error. It’s saying there is no space left on the device but that seems very unlikely?

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Seems like you have shutdown the rPi, by just pulling the power plug. Leaving a ghost file in your /data/temp folder.
you can try to delete the content of /data/temp via the shell.

run:

sudo rm -r /data/temp/*
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i never bothered if there is an update feature for plugins or at least a notification when there’s an update available?

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if there is an updated plugin, the plugin page shows a button with “Update”

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awesome tx.

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Hi mms,
sry, was knocked out by corona the last days. Workaround is strange but it seems to work :slight_smile:
thx!

Mike

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Fresh install on a RPI 3b, premium account, Hifiberry Digi hat! Plugin install went well. Everything looks fine, but no sound, no music even starts to play!
I also have miniDSP OEM version! There is no new Spotify version available on the OEM, only the old plugins that stopped working!

http://logs.volumio.org/volumio/K4XWGPi.html

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Hi all,

First of all just wanted to thanks to Volumio community and all the people contributing for the plug in and for Volumio in general.

So I’m using a rpbi3 with a Hifiberry DAC+ and volumio system version 3.301, I have just installed the spotify plug in Spotify 3.0.1;

  • When pressing the ‘Open or Install Spotify’ a blank page appears on my browser and nothing else happens.
  • When trying to log in, nothing happens as well, I’ve tried both options ‘Spotify login’ and ‘Save’.

http://logs.volumio.org/volumio/nT6eRU9.html

Could someone help ? Thanks a lot

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Thank you, all good now the Plugin has loaded and is working.

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One thing that seems to have changed is, when I was using the previous spotify plugins I found that things worked much better if I opened Spotify on my phone, and then used the Spotify “Connect to a device” feature and then played music to Volumio using the Spotify App.

For some reason the Spotify App can no longer see Volumio so I cannot connect to it, is this related to the change or is there another issue?

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using new plugin still cannot browser spotify in volumio

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Great plugin and thanks.

Using new spotify plugin: skipping songs and can’t stop the player from the spotify app.

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Hello all,

I finally got it. I was using the wrong credentials to log into the plug in. I mean when that’s the case I was expecting a error message or something like that but no, simply nothing happens, after several attemps and unnistalls/installs of the plug in, I went to the web player in spotify to check my credentials (username and password) and now I can do it.

The sound quality is much better than to play over the app.

Thanks!

I would like to donate a small amount, how is this possible ? Thanks

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Hello to All

Host: Raspberry PI4
Volumio 3.301 Virtuoso membership
DAC: Hifiberry DAC+ RCA
Hw audio configured: HiFiBerry DAC Plus
Mixer type: Hardware
Number of channels: 2
Supported sample rate: 44100 48000 88200 96000 176400 192000

Spotify Premium - familiy contract
I installes the plugin as described in this thread

Problem:
No playback from spotiy tracks. It looks like playback of the selected song isn’t started al all.
No sound

I can browse through spotify and select a song.
When i start playing the song nothing happens/no sound!
I double checked Volumio:

  • Playing tracks from my qnap nas: no problem
  • Listing to webreadio: no problem
    rebooted the system several times: problem still exists
    switch off/switch on system: problem still exists

Starting a debug session in putty: volumio@volumio:~$ sudo journalctl -f

Jul 01 06:47:24 volumio volumio[888]: info: CoreStateMachine::startPlaybackTimer
Jul 01 06:47:24 volumio volumio[888]: info: CorePlayQueue::getTrack 8
Jul 01 06:47:24 volumio volumio[888]: info: [1656658044268] ControllerSpotify::clearAddPlayTrack
Jul 01 06:47:24 volumio volumio[888]: info: Setting this device active
Jul 01 06:47:24 volumio volumio[888]: info: Failed to Set Device Active: Error: Not Found
Jul 01 06:47:32 volumio volumio[888]: info: CoreCommandRouter::volumioGetState
Jul 01 06:47:32 volumio volumio[888]: info: CorePlayQueue::getTrack 8
Jul 01 06:47:32 volumio volumio[888]: info: Listing playlists
Jul 01 06:47:32 volumio volumio[888]: info: Listing playlists
Jul 01 06:47:42 volumio volumio[888]: info: CoreCommandRouter::volumioGetState
Jul 01 06:47:42 volumio volumio[888]: info: CorePlayQueue::getTrack 8

Look at the line : Failed to Set Device Active: Error: Not Found

Is this an error?
Am I doing something wrong?

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Does it require Spotify Premium for playing music directly on Volumio device?

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Yes

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Just a heads up for anyone else, if you’re having trouble connecting to Spotify double check to make sure that the name of your volumio device does not have a ’ character in the name. You can check your device’s name by going into Settings → System → Player Name (which should be near the top)

My volumio had a the name “saladtrayend’s volumio” which caused all attempts to log in to Spotify to fail. When I would click the sign-on button in the plugin screen the top right would have the “successful changes” green popup which would fade without actually logging me in.

My /dev/ logs also showed the following error which I’m pasting in case anyone else tries searching for the name error

volspotconnect.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
volspotconnect.service: Service RestartSec=2s expired, scheduling restart.

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Same here, spotify premium account, logs in, can browse and put music in the queue, just no playback. Also the seconds are not adding so i think playback is not started…

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It works almost always for me, the problem occurs only when I press stop and try to restart the seng after a while (an hour for example) I get an error. But clicking next song fixes it, so not a huge problem.

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