Triode;614767 Wrote: 
> Just to explain the above - these entries are not playback, they are
> used to build the metadata for a track.  Specifically if you have a
> large playlist and stop/restart the server then the plugin with fetch
> details of each track from the helper app as only the url is stored by
> the server.  Its normal to get large numbers of them and ideally they
> happen rapidly one after each other (1.3.1 adds a queue in the server
> so not all the queuing is done in the helper app)
> 
> 
> 
> These errors means that the server can't find the information to allow
> writing of the playlist information to disk.  If you have a long
> playlist then you need to increase the playlist size in the spotify
> settings page to exceed it.
> 
> 
> 
> This could definately be a problem.  The plugin bypasses the normal
> server audio handling and sends the audio stream as flac from the
> helper app direct to the player (after verifying that it is a player
> which it is streaming to).  This means that even if you only stream
> 160k from spotify, this is converted to flac (upto 1M) by the helper
> app and sent over your local network at this rate.  Hence you do need
> good bandwidth on your local network.

A useful and comprhensive answer as usual, with some good tips
(playlist size esp.)

I have a set of homeplugs kicking about that I may try if I get this
again - but the good news (for me definitely) is that after 36 hours of
on and off usage, using a variety of ways to access Spotify (not just
playlists but also search, individual tracks...) there has been no
repeat of any rebuffering issue. 

So far so good - in fact,fantastic.


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