I'd like to announce an early beta of a plugin I have been working on for Spotify Premium subscribers to browse and play Spotify streams through Squeezebox players.
Scope: - for Spotify users with a Premium account - plays back 320k or 160k streams - requires a PC based server running Squeezebox server (linux or windows only at present) - will play back via Squeezebox 2 and later hardware players only - only supports a single playback stream (one player) at once, i.e. no synchronisation support The plugin is early beta, so I expect some rough edges, but I am posting to get feedback on interest level and to help further development. Note that the plugin is somewhat more complex than a standard squeezebox server plugin so it will take longer to download than normal plugins and there may be more issues which I have been unable to test... If you are a Spotify Premium subscriber, then to try it out: 1) Make sure you are running 7.5 or 7.5.1 Squeezebox server 2) Go to the Settings/Plugin page and add the following to the additional repositories box at the bottom of the page, press apply: http://triodeplugins.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/testrepo.xml 3) Assuming you are running your server on windows or linux, you should then get an additional repository in the list which includes Spotify as an installable plugin 4) Select and click to install, note that it may take longer than normal to fetch the plugin as it is bigger than a normal plugin so the page make take longer to respond 5) Restart the server 6) Go to the Plugin, Settings page for "Spotify" either via the advanced menu or from the plugin page 7) Read and agree the Spotify restrictions, then add your username and password to the settings page. 8) If you refresh the settings page a couple of times you should see that a "helper appl" is running an it is logged into Spotify. If not there may be an error to help... 9) Go to the "radio" menu on one of your hardware players and you should be able to browse and play tracks from Spotify.... Linux: The binary files included in the plugin include the Spotify library libspotify and a closed source application built around this. This is 32bit only so on 64 bit linux you probably need ia32-libs installed and probably libFLAC and libogg as well. Windows: The binary is 32bit and should work on 64bit as well. I have not tried it on all versions of windows, so there may be some issues so please report. Please provide feedback and let me know if this plugin is interesting to people... -- Triode ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Triode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79706 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
