Have been using Spotty for months, but only recently switched to the latest version and started using connect. First off all: really impressed that Michael made this possible to use on the Squeezebox players. I use Spotify every day and am really happy I can still use my aging hardware for this.
What I see so far are just minor points, and could be related to something specific to my setup, but wanted to mention them anyway. If I use connect to listen to a playlist (start the music on a Spotify app on Windows) the SB player starts with a delay that can be anything between 2 and 20 seconds, but almost always it is about 10 seconds. That delay stays constant during a song. When the Spotify client is at the end of the song (so, let's say 10 seconds ahead of the SB player), the artwork and songtitle/artist information on the SB player changes to the next song (kinda in sync with the Spotify app). At this point the remaining time display on the SB player usually jumps to 0:00 with the total track time of the new song and stays that way until the next songs starts playing (~ 10s). The current song continous to play to the end on the SB player, without any interruption or artifacts. The time display can also get a bit weird in the intermittent part between when the Spotify app starts the next song and when the SB player does. The total track time seems to be always the correct time of the next song, but the remaining time sometimes indicates 1:31 or 2:00 or something. This always corrects itself when the SB player starts the song. So when you don't look at the SB player, everything is fine, no problems with the music, just the artwork/title/artist/time information is not in sync during the last ~10 seconds. I guess the delay between the Spotify app and the SB player is to be expected. If I look at the traffic graphs on my router, each song starts with a burst of 4/5/6 MByte during a few seconds and then not much, if anything after that. It seems like it's downloading the complete song and then playing it locally? Just guessing here. Using Spotty 1.99.3 with the helper application version 0.81. LMS version 7.9.1 on FreeBSD ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NeverSimple's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36242 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108030 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
