Spotify Plugin not working/ Playing Music

Philx · June 23, 2021, 3:33pm

Hello everybody,

I have just installed volumio on my raspberry pi 3b+.
The first thing I did was activate the Spotify Connect plugin. It works fine.

Then I installed and configured the normal spotify plugin, which can be used to display the spotify playlists via Volumio.
I registered with my premium account and then authorized the connection. I can search for songs / playlists and see my own playlists, but I cannot play any songs. The popup appears that the song is now being played, but nothing happens.
I use the Aux output from the Raspberry and i use WIFI.
Spotify Connect works perfect but the normal spotify plugin to control songs via the Webgui from Volumio has problems with the playback…

I hope someone can help me

Philx · June 23, 2021, 3:40pm

This is in the log after i want to play a song from spotify through the webgui connected to my spotify account

info: CoreStateMachine::play index undefined
info: CoreStateMachine::setConsumeUpdateService undefined
info: CorePlayQueue::getTrack 0
info: CoreStateMachine::startPlaybackTimer
info: CorePlayQueue::getTrack 0
info: [1624462214444] ControllerSpop::clearAddPlayTrack
info: {“uri”:“spotify:track:53bryiwW9cKTw6K8phb9y8”,“service”:“spop”,“name”:“Dance Like Rihanna - Mixed”,“artist”:“Jerome”,“album”:“Kontor Top of the Clubs - 2021.02 Mix”,“type”:“song”,“duration”:125,“tracknumber”:1,“albumart”:“https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b27398cc9c35d30fdeb88b439b39",“samplerate”:“320Kbps”,“bitdepth”:"16 bit”,“trackType”:“spotify”}
info: [1624462214444] ControllerSpop::sendSpopCommand
info: ADDING DEFER FOR COMMAND uplay
error: SPOP command error: Error: This socket has been ended by the other party

petrberry · June 23, 2021, 3:50pm

Hi,
I have absolutely the same problem, since the afternoon. The Spotify stop working on all my installations.
At some moments, temporarily, Spotify start working and than nothing again.
P

Dynodenny · June 23, 2021, 4:55pm

I have 4 installations and Spotify is not working on any of them within Volumio. It works using connect, which shows that my account is active and working.

Joni_Salminen · June 23, 2021, 5:12pm

Same here, live log ends in →
error: SPOP command error: Error: This socket has been ended by the other party

Swish · June 23, 2021, 5:50pm

Same than you guys, same logs.

jimq · June 24, 2021, 3:34am

Same here. I logged in via ssh to poke around and found the following:

Starting it by hand with spopd -c /etc/spopd.conf fails because it can’t find libspotify.so.12. running ldconfig by hand and then starting spopd by hand again works, but it dies when trying to play.

Adding /sbin/ldconfig seems to make it start on boot, but still no playback. spopd dies again.

running spopd -d -c /etc/spopd.conf I see this:

2021-06-24 03:23:51 [INFO] Running in debug mode
2021-06-24 03:23:51 [DBG ] Creating session…
2021-06-24 03:23:51 [DBG ] Setting preferred bitrate to high.
2021-06-24 03:23:51 [DBG ] Setting preferred offline bitrate to high.
2021-06-24 03:23:51 [DBG ] Setting cache size to 0.
2021-06-24 03:23:51 [DBG ] Session created.
2021-06-24 03:23:51 [DBG ] Logging in…
2021-06-24 03:23:51 [SPTF] 03:23:51.327 I [offline_authorizer.cpp:297] Unable to login offline: no such user
2021-06-24 03:23:51 [DBG ] Will listen on 127.0.0.1:6602…
2021-06-24 03:23:51 [INFO] Listening on 127.0.0.1: 6602
2021-06-24 03:23:51 [SPTF] 03:23:51.336 I [ap:1752] Connecting to AP ap.spotify.com:4070
2021-06-24 03:23:56 [SPTF] 03:23:56.338 E [ap:1694] AP Socket Error: Timeout reached (20000)
2021-06-24 03:23:56 [SPTF] 03:23:56.339 E [ap:3953] Connection error: 117
2021-06-24 03:23:56 [SPTF] 03:23:56.339 I [ap:1752] Connecting to AP ap.spotify.com:443
2021-06-24 03:24:01 [SPTF] 03:24:01.343 E [ap:1694] AP Socket Error: Timeout reached (20000)
2021-06-24 03:24:01 [SPTF] 03:24:01.343 E [ap:3953] Connection error: 117
2021-06-24 03:24:01 [SPTF] 03:24:01.344 I [ap:1752] Connecting to AP ap.spotify.com:80
2021-06-24 03:24:02 [SPTF] 03:24:02.493 I [ap:1226] Connected to AP: 35.190.244.20:80
2021-06-24 03:24:02 [INFO] Logged in.
2021-06-24 03:24:02 [SPTF] 03:24:02.819 I [offline-mgr:2082] Storage has been cleaned
2021-06-24 03:24:03 [SPTF] 03:24:03.814 I [offline-mgr:2030] 0 files are locked. 0 images are locked
2021-06-24 03:24:03 [SPTF] 03:24:03.815 I [offline-mgr:2056] 0 files unlocked. 0 images unlocked

That debug output never moves, and in the debug console I wind up back with:

info: [162450391149] ControllerSpop::sendSpopCommand
info: ADDING DEFER FOR COMMAND uplay error: SPOP command
error: Error: This socket has been ended by the other party

jimq · June 24, 2021, 4:14am

I am wondering if something changed on the spotify end of things:

jimq · June 24, 2021, 4:31am

2 other points on this issue:

I installed my two pi’s last night and they were working. I did not reboot them so did not uncover the LD_LIBRARY_PATH issue then. Things just worked.
That could just be a coincidence or something with my installation, but since others are seeing the same and it all started around the same time, that points to an issue on spotify’s end. I am going to install an older version of volumio and try again with that.

petrberry · June 24, 2021, 4:47am

I installed Volumio from scratch on my testing Pi 4B, last night, it worked for a while, the same I experienced on my “production” pi’s, there were some moments it worked, but rare, the situation happened on 3 devices that I have not been manipulating with before the current failure of playback.
Teorethically the problem could be: a/ Volumio gets hidden patches b/ there is an entity in between Volumio end device and Spotify service failing c/ Spotify has changed “protocol”.

petrberry · June 24, 2021, 10:42am

Elaborating continue:

I played also with spopd, and found that inability of playback definitely depends on spopd weird behaviour. I exported path from console export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/ spopd and than start daemon spopd -c /etc/spopd.conf, than Spotify disappeared from GUI, and I had to bring it active with new login. Than it started work, even after reboot it worked, but I was not able to reproduce it again. It looks like after issuing the command for playback the daemon starts working for a second till it is shut down by ?? There is a very short blink || on the GUI.There is symptomatic that more people experienced the same problem at the same time. Will be trying on.

Philx · June 24, 2021, 2:27pm

At least good to know that some have the same problem.
Unfortunately, I am not that into IT.
It would be nice if someone has / knows a solution to provide a user-friendly guide

petrberry · June 24, 2021, 2:29pm

Thanks to invisible fairy, Spotify works again!

Joni_Salminen · June 24, 2021, 2:42pm

If someone is still having the issue, logging out and logging back in(don’t forget to authorize aswell), did seem to work for me today.

Philx · June 24, 2021, 3:07pm

So what is the solution for the problem?
Could somebody explain it to me?
Thanks

petrberry · June 24, 2021, 3:23pm

I do not know what is the real solution, can only guess, but do not believe on accidents. Only happy its working.

Philx · June 24, 2021, 3:24pm

Okay what did you do that its working now?

dvo · June 24, 2021, 3:27pm

The error 117 Spotify means that a connection problem exists and the Software cannot connect to the Server.

petrberry · June 24, 2021, 3:39pm

I think that it is up and running without any connection to my elaborating, at one device I had to login to Spotify again. I guess It must have been some operational problem.

Gusser · June 24, 2021, 4:36pm

Unacceptable! Based on the number of posts here and on the help forum there is clearly a problem. This is not freeware, I just paid the yearly fee and now I have nothing.

We deserve a response form Volumio on what they are doing to fix this.