Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-29 Thread Michael Herger
A little bump in case this one was forgotten. Any traction here? I'm sorry to say that it hasn't been forgotten, I just didn't find time to look into it yet... -- Michael ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevi

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-29 Thread loopguru
loopguru wrote: > No other media server running except the Synology one. I invested some more hours without success. Stopped now all packets on my Synology except LMS, same issue. So I do not know where a conflict with another application using bonjour/avahi should result from. Without some ti

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-29 Thread MrC
MrC wrote: > Many. Add any of these albums, and jump to any track just before a > greyed-out track (as seen in the Spotify app itself, or the web page). > You can skip forward to the end of the track, and you'll find playback > just stops at the end of that track and won't advance. > > Here

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-29 Thread loopguru
Thanks, Michael! mherger wrote: > Some other media server, like a DLNA server or similar? Synology NAS > come with their own. No other media server running except the Synology one. mherger wrote: > The root cause most likely is a conflict with some other application > using bonjour/avahil An

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-29 Thread Michael Herger
Did you enable media server features on your NAS? Yes - the standard Synology Media Server is running. Some other media server, like a DLNA server or similar? Synology NAS come with their own. (and BTW: I'd recommend you update your LMS, see pinkdot's great work https://forums.slimdevices.c

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-29 Thread loopguru
mherger wrote: > Did you enable media server features on your NAS? Yes - the standard Synology Media Server is running. mherger wrote: > Are you using multiple accounts? Yes, I configured several Spotify accounts within Spotty Is there a log file from the Spotty daemon somewhere in the file s

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-28 Thread Michael Herger
I do not know what triggered it, maybe an minor upgrade of my Synology operating system - but Spotify Connect does not work at all anymore for me. Did you enable media server features on your NAS? My players are vanishing automatically and one option of Spotty activates itself: "Squeezebox Pla

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-28 Thread loopguru
I do not know what triggered it, maybe an minor upgrade of my Synology operating system - but Spotify Connect does not work at all anymore for me. My players are vanishing automatically and one option of Spotty activates itself: "Squeezebox Player im Spotify Connect Modus nicht im lokalen Netzwe

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-28 Thread slartibartfast
Staudie wrote: > Is yours working with Ogg Vorbis enabled?? > > > > I think ive got it now missed the Spotty file type heading :o > > Before > 27788 > > After > 27789 > > Thank you both it is showing the conversion when playing. Running > tests now with 3 players (2 wifi 1 wired).G

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-28 Thread Staudie
slartibartfast wrote: > You should uninstall the FreeBSD helper. How old is your Max2Play > installation. Ogg Vorbis works for me on a Pi with Max2play based on > Debian Stretch. If you disabled Ogg Vorbis the stream should be > converted to FLAC permanently. Can you show a screenshot of your Fi

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-27 Thread Michael Herger
Can someone please help with streaming Ogg Vorbis from Spotty. I have the Spotty 2.8.4 with the Spotty Helper for FreeBSD (not sure if i need it) installed. The server is a RP 3 running Max2Play 2.50 which uses Squeezelite player. Ive tried to disable Ogg Vorbis within \Advanced\FileTypes\. I get

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-27 Thread slartibartfast
Staudie wrote: > Can someone please help with streaming Ogg Vorbis from Spotty. I have > the Spotty 2.8.4 with the Spotty Helper for FreeBSD (not sure if i need > it) installed. The server is a RP 3 running Max2Play 2.50 which uses > Squeezelite player. Ive tried to disable Ogg Vorbis within > \

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-27 Thread Michael Herger
I am running Spotty on my media server at home, feeding into my whole house audio system. When I am in one of the rooms, and I load Spotify on my iPhone, I see the option "Connect to a Device" and the option to select "Listening on MyServerName" and a speaker icon to the left. I select this opti

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-27 Thread Staudie
Can someone please help with streaming Ogg Vorbis from Spotty. I have the Spotty 2.8.4 with the Spotty Helper for FreeBSD (not sure if i need it) installed. The server is a RP 3 running Max2Play 2.50 which uses Squeezelite player. Ive tried to disable Ogg Vorbis within \Advanced\FileTypes\. I get

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-27 Thread simonmason
Apologies if this has been asked before - I did try to search the thread but found nothing. I am running Spotty on my media server at home, feeding into my whole house audio system. When I am in one of the rooms, and I load Spotify on my iPhone, I see the option "Connect to a Device" and the op

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-21 Thread MrC
mherger wrote: > > When an album on Spotify (generally compilations albums) contain a > track > > that no longer exists on Spotify, the Spotify app just skips the track > > and moves on to play the next available track. > > > > But Spotty halts playback. If you double click the unavailable tra

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-21 Thread Michael Herger
When an album on Spotify (generally compilations albums) contain a track that no longer exists on Spotify, the Spotify app just skips the track and moves on to play the next available track. But Spotty halts playback. If you double click the unavailable track in the web interface, playback skips

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-21 Thread Michael Herger
I did enable “Info” logging for the spotify add on and it seems to help However - I observed (in htop) an increased in cpu usage when spotify is jumping to the next track. Is this normal? Whenever there's a track change Spotty would pre-buffer the song data - which certainly would increase CPU

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-21 Thread Michael Herger
To fix this,__I_can_remove_my_Spotify_Client_ID_from_the_Plugin_and_then_Apply_... Then I am back to limited 198 songs... but then I can _reapply_the_Spotify_Client_ID_and_it_works_again_for_short_time_until_the_errors_come_back_... Hmm... I'll have to look into this. Would the client_id shown i

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-21 Thread Michael Herger
1. podcast playback As far as I notice there seems to be happend something on that issue during the last weeks from the librespot side. (issues #90 and #339 on the github site librespot-org/librespot) Yes, some work is being done. But from what I understand it's still work in progress. It _migh

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-21 Thread Michael Herger
Badly i have still this Problem. I was think its maybe problem with my Pi, but now it sometimes work, and then it break up ;( Funny but not funny. When this happens, my TS851 does not show temp and fan speed anymore. They just say 0° - 0RPM :confused: I'd look into your system's main log files

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-19 Thread aeppsi
@mherger Hi Michael, I would kindly like to mention some feature request and ask for the status on them. 1. podcast playback As far as I notice there seems to be happend something on that issue during the last weeks from the librespot side. (issues #90 and #339 on the github site librespot-org/l

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-17 Thread mikitil
mikitil wrote: > Badly i have still this Problem. > I was think its maybe problem with my Pi, but now it sometimes work, and > then it break up ;( slartibartfast wrote: > This is the first time you have mentioned a Pi. What is the Pi used for? > You could always try running LMS on the Pi Pi f

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-16 Thread slartibartfast
mikitil wrote: > Badly i have still this Problem. > I was think its maybe problem with my Pi, but now it sometimes work, and > then it break up ;(This is the first time you have mentioned a Pi. What is > the Pi used for? You could always try running LMS on the Pi Sent from my SM-G900F using Ta

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-16 Thread mikitil
mikitil wrote: > Badly i have still this Problem. > I was think its maybe problem with my Pi, but now it sometimes work, and > then it break up ;( Funny but not funny. When this happens, my TS851 does not show temp and fan speed anymore. They just say 0° - 0RPM :confused: So i get error message

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-15 Thread jeangv
Hi! I LOVE the Spotty Plugin for LMS!! It allows me to play my large Spotify Playlist on my Raspberry Pi (Pi Core Player) and LMS. I am running Spotty 2.8.4. 1. I LOGIN TO SPOTIFY WITH THE SPOTTY PLUGIN This only allowed me to import 198 tracks from my playlist of 900+ songs but then I read on

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-12 Thread Staudie
Staudie wrote: > Resonantly I upgraded my Wifi to a Unifi system. This allowed me to > segment my network (main, IOT, guest) using a single Wifi AP. Now all of > my squeezeboxes are on my IOT network. This may have caused a couple of > issues, One is my Spotify user name and password are not sav

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-11 Thread ho_kuku
Hi Michael, I too experienced random/pause with v2.8.4 I did enable “Info” logging for the spotify add on and it seems to help However - I observed (in htop) an increased in cpu usage when spotify is jumping to the next track. Is this normal? Am on Debian - aarch64 Odroid N2 platform --

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-11 Thread MrC
Question When an album on Spotify (generally compilations albums) contain a track that no longer exists on Spotify, the Spotify app just skips the track and moves on to play the next available track. But Spotty halts playback. If you double click the unavailable track in the web interface, pla

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-11 Thread mikitil
mikitil wrote: > Still in Love with spotty for lms thanx again and again. > Today i get out of nothing in my squezeboxes the multible error "Datei > kann nicht abgespielt werden bla bla" can't play any spotify music. > Radio and local music s workng fine. Newest spotty on > QLogitechMediaServer

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-09 Thread Grodman
mherger wrote: > > I have looked in the log file but i'm not that good on finding and > see > > problems there:) > > Feel free to upload the file to > > https://www.dropbox.com/request/T3RctyzGgNg0oFDubq6a > > -- > > Michael File is uploaded. Thanx for your help Michael! --

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-09 Thread Michael Herger
I have looked in the log file but i'm not that good on finding and see problems there:) Feel free to upload the file to https://www.dropbox.com/request/T3RctyzGgNg0oFDubq6a -- Michael ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lis

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-08 Thread Grodman
mherger wrote: > > Is it possible to downgrade spotty? > > Yes, this is possible, if you don't mind fiddling with files and folders > > on the command line. But you'll be stuck with that version. > > You'd better try to understand the issue and solve the root cause of > it. > > Did you ever

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-08 Thread Michael Herger
Is it possible to downgrade spotty? Yes, this is possible, if you don't mind fiddling with files and folders on the command line. But you'll be stuck with that version. You'd better try to understand the issue and solve the root cause of it. Did you ever check the server.log file for any hin

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-08 Thread Grodman
mherger wrote: > > After installing Spotty 2.8.4 i can't find any of my squeezebox > devices > > on Spotify Connect in my android device. > > Have something changed so i have to update Logitech Media Server > > Version: 7.9.1 - 1522157629 to 7.9.2? > > 2.8.4 was mostly about improved logging, a

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-07 Thread Michael Herger
After installing Spotty 2.8.4 i can't find any of my squeezebox devices on Spotify Connect in my android device. Have something changed so i have to update Logitech Media Server Version: 7.9.1 - 1522157629 to 7.9.2? 2.8.4 was mostly about improved logging, and some tweaking for users of the Gro

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-07 Thread Michael Herger
[19-07-05 12:20:59.4292] Plugins::Spotty::API::_gotTokenResponse (196) Failed to get Spotify access token [19-07-05 12:23:35.4614] Plugins::Spotty::API::_gotTokenResponse (181) Failed to get Spotify access token: malformed JSON string, neither array, object, number, string or atom, at character of

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-05 Thread Grodman
After installing Spotty 2.8.4 i can't find any of my squeezebox devices on Spotify Connect in my android device. Have something changed so i have to update Logitech Media Server Version: 7.9.1 - 1522157629 to 7.9.2? Grodma

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-05 Thread einsA
Hello, I have installed the *Spotty v2.8.4* plugin to my Logitech Media Server. I can see this Spotify Instance in my Android Spotify App. After choosing to play on this instance I notice that my Spotify Account Name appears in the Spotty plugin settings page. But the playback won't start. Th

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-04 Thread DavidBulluss
Paul Webster wrote: > He did and none so far > https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot/issues/342 Thanks Paul :) *Server*rpi3 pCP4.1.1 LMS7.9.2 *Media*USB hard drive *Lounge/dining areas*SBT > Denon AVR2113 > Bose Acoustimass10 / Krix Seismix3 18" 300w RMS custom cinema sub (& AR 77XB t/

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-04 Thread Paul Webster
DavidBulluss wrote: > Hi Michael, did you ping librespot? Any response? > > Regards, David He did and none so far https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot/issues/342 Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com Author Radio France (FIP etc) plugin --

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-04 Thread DavidBulluss
mherger wrote: > > Michael, just a question from an artist in our household who has > songs > > on Spotify... do plays of a song using Spotty register at Spotify as > > plays for that song/artist? t seems to us that they do not register > at > > Spotify as his stats do not appear to change when

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-04 Thread pong400
Hello, I just set logging for plugin.spotty to INFO, play with Spotty, and and I found that everything was back in order. I do not know if that is what solved the problem (I did not think to try today before to set logging to INFO) or not but in any case thank you Michael! System : SqueezeCe

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-03 Thread Michael Herger
issues, One is my Spotify user name and password are not saving. I have to reenter them after the server is rebooted (RP3 on Max2play). The I highly doubt this has anything to do with your network. Once you have authenticated, Spotty should save credentials in a text file. It doesn't care what

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-03 Thread Michael Herger
We agree, we are speaking of the last champ nammed "Spotify Client ID"? It is empty Ok, that's good then. Set logging for plugin.spotty to INFO, play with Spotty, then provide your server.log.zip https://www.dropbox.com/request/T3RctyzGgNg0oFDubq6a -- Michael _

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-03 Thread Staudie
Resonantly I upgraded my Wifi to a Unifi system. This allowed me to segment my network (main, IOT, guest) using a single Wifi AP. Now all of my squeezeboxes are on my IOT network. This may have caused a couple of issues, One is my Spotify user name and password are not saving. I have to reenter t

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-03 Thread pong400
We agree, we are speaking of the last champ nammed "Spotify Client ID"? It is empty I just see that System : SqueezeCenter 7.9.2 running on a PC (10 64) Living room : Squeezebox 3 > Marantz 7200 > KEF iQ4 Kitchen : Squeezebox 3 > Marantz 7200 > KEF iQcompaq ---

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-03 Thread Michael Herger
No I dont think so. First time I hear about it... Please go double-check. -- Michael ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-03 Thread pong400
No I dont think so. First time I hear about it... System : SqueezeCenter 7.9.2 running on a PC (10 64) Living room : Squeezebox 3 > Marantz 7200 > KEF iQ4 Kitchen : Squeezebox 3 > Marantz 7200 > KEF iQcompaq pong400's Pro

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-03 Thread Michael Herger
Since a few days, spotty 2.8.4 does not work anymore. When I click on the application Spotty on LMS (version : 7.9.2 - 1561558440), I get the menu but when I choose an item (genre and moods, album, artist, etc..) the page is empty. Did you define your own client_id in the Spotty settings? -- M

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-03 Thread pong400
Hello, Since a few days, spotty 2.8.4 does not work anymore. When I click on the application Spotty on LMS (version : 7.9.2 - 1561558440), I get the menu but when I choose an item (genre and moods, album, artist, etc..) the page is empty. I have also noted that when I run spotify (premium) on my

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-02 Thread crystalgipsy
slartibartfast wrote: > You can only listen on one player at a time using Connect if that is > what you mean. > > Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk I know that, I mean other users connecting to spotty on the picoreplayer from their phones as they all have premium. In the office we all have

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-02 Thread slartibartfast
crystalgipsy wrote: > Already using that. It appears to make no difference. Music stops after > one song and does not progress user gets disconnected. Sometimes it just > stops and can restart it, but others it just seems to stop after one > track and they loose connection. Is there a limitation

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-02 Thread crystalgipsy
slartibartfast wrote: > Isn't there a check box to monitor connection? That should force it to > reconnect. > > Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk Already using that. It appears to make no difference. Music stops after one song and does not progress user gets disconnected. Sometimes it just

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-02 Thread slartibartfast
crystalgipsy wrote: > There is that option however it makes no difference though if it on or > off it still looses the connection. It just stops me from seeing my > connect devices at home. Pi and phone are all on the same wireless > network and AP.Isn't there a check box to monitor connection?

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-02 Thread crystalgipsy
There is that option however it makes no difference though if it on or off it still looses the connection. It just stops me from seeing my connect devices at home. Pi and phone are all on the same wireless network and AP. Naim Uniti Atom Arcam AVR360 ClearAudio Concept with MC Concept ClearAud

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-02 Thread Michael Herger
Ok uploaded a log for you. [19-07-02 11:15:38.0561] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::DaemonManager::checkAPIConnectPlayers (208) Connect daemon is running, but not connected - shutting down to force restart: b8:27:eb:db:15:d7 This seems to be a case where a player disconnects from Spotify's serve

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-02 Thread crystalgipsy
mherger wrote: > > Loving the plugin but having issues with it stopping and loosing > > connection when using connect. Using Jivelite to contol it all is > good. > > Using PiCorePlayer 5.0.0 and latest lms and spotty. Using wireless > but > > so not sure if this is the cause but why would it pla

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-02 Thread slartibartfast
mherger wrote: > > Hmm just checked again and the play count has increased by 20. Bit > > surprised that 19 other people are playing an obscure Alan Hull track > > from 1973 in the last minute or two. [emoji3] > > Are you talking about the publicly shown play count? I doubt you're the > rights

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-02 Thread crystalgipsy
mherger wrote: > > Loving the plugin but having issues with it stopping and loosing > > connection when using connect. Using Jivelite to contol it all is > good. > > Using PiCorePlayer 5.0.0 and latest lms and spotty. Using wireless > but > > so not sure if this is the cause but why would it pla

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-02 Thread Michael Herger
Hmm just checked again and the play count has increased by 20. Bit surprised that 19 other people are playing an obscure Alan Hull track from 1973 in the last minute or two. [emoji3] Are you talking about the publicly shown play count? I doubt you're the rights owner of Alan Hull's work? I woul

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-02 Thread Michael Herger
I just tried playing a track using the Spotify app on my phone, listening on my phone and noticed that the track play count did not increase. Is there a delay? I don't know, really. I have no insight into Spotify's book keeping. -- Michael ___ plugin

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-02 Thread slartibartfast
slartibartfast wrote: > I just tried playing a track using the Spotify app on my phone, > listening on my phone and noticed that the track play count did not > increase. Is there a delay? > > Sent from my SM-G900F using TapatalkHmm just checked again and the play count > has increased by 20. B

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-02 Thread slartibartfast
mherger wrote: > > Michael, just a question from an artist in our household who has songs > > on Spotify... do plays of a song using Spotty register at Spotify as > > plays for that song/artist? t seems to us that they do not register at > > Spotify as his stats do not appear to change when I pl

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-01 Thread Michael Herger
I don't know much about the limitations of Squeezebox Touch operating system bar the fact it is lightweight and limited due to hardware, but still I have to ask - would it be possible to run Spotty plugin on Touch directly using SD card? No, that's not possible. You already mention the reason: h

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-01 Thread Michael Herger
Loving the plugin but having issues with it stopping and loosing connection when using connect. Using Jivelite to contol it all is good. Using PiCorePlayer 5.0.0 and latest lms and spotty. Using wireless but so not sure if this is the cause but why would it play continuously using LMS to control i

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-01 Thread rootor
Hi all, I've been using this amazing plugin for ..I guess, years now. Over time, I noticed that I rarely listen to music I have stored locally, and rely on Spotify and other streaming platforms exclusively. I ended up switching of my main server and currently just use old laptop with no music on

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-01 Thread Paul Webster
mherger wrote: > > I would be really surprised if players could tell Spotify not to > include > > a track in the stats. > > Some streaming services indeed expect the player (or the controlling > software like LMS) to report when a track has been listened to. Without > that reporting they woul

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-01 Thread crystalgipsy
Loving the plugin but having issues with it stopping and loosing connection when using connect. Using Jivelite to contol it all is good. Using PiCorePlayer 5.0.0 and latest lms and spotty. Using wireless but so not sure if this is the cause but why would it play continuously using LMS to control

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-01 Thread markelhombre
Yes, they're on the same network. My phone can find my chromecast, but just not my squeezebox. markelhombre's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=63974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/s

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-01 Thread Michael Herger
But when i'm on my android phone, i never see my squeezebox as an available device. Is your phone on the same network as your computer and LMS? If it's on cell only, you might get what you're reporting. -- Michael ___ plugins mailing list plugins@l

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-07-01 Thread markelhombre
I'm running Spotty for a while now, and i'm very happy with it! I just have one issue: when i'm on my laptop, i can play music on my squeezebox. But when i'm on my android phone, i never see my squeezebox as an available device. However, when I use my laptop to connect to my squeezebox, then it

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-06-29 Thread DavidBulluss
Paul Webster wrote: > I would be really surprised if players could tell Spotify not to include > a track in the stats. > Does playing one of those tracks when using native Spotify increment the > count as expected? ... if yes ... how quickly? > Are you using the artist's Spotify account when pla

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-06-29 Thread Michael Herger
I would be really surprised if players could tell Spotify not to include a track in the stats. Some streaming services indeed expect the player (or the controlling software like LMS) to report when a track has been listened to. Without that reporting they wouldn't have any means to calculate l

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-06-29 Thread Michael Herger
Michael, just a question from an artist in our household who has songs on Spotify... do plays of a song using Spotty register at Spotify as plays for that song/artist? t seems to us that they do not register at Spotify as his stats do not appear to change when I play one of his tracks. Could it be

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-06-28 Thread Paul Webster
I would be really surprised if players could tell Spotify not to include a track in the stats. Does playing one of those tracks when using native Spotify increment the count as expected? ... if yes ... how quickly? Are you using the artist's Spotify account when playing? (they might not count sel

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-06-28 Thread DavidBulluss
Michael, just a question from an artist in our household who has songs on Spotify... do plays of a song using Spotty register at Spotify as plays for that song/artist? t seems to us that they do not register at Spotify as his stats do not appear to change when I play one of his tracks. Could it b

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-06-28 Thread the_arm
I think I probably caused that confusion based on a (mis)interpretation of an earlier spotty thread! Sorry. Anyway, in case anyone else stumbles on this: getting your own Spotify Client ID and increasing the LMS playlist length (settings->advanced->performance->maximum playlist length), if desire

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-06-24 Thread Michael Herger
I have my Spotify Client ID, and I have my 500 limit - but I'm greedy and I have a massive playlist, is there any way to increase that to 1,000? :-) Did you increase LMS' playlist limitation, too? (Settings/Performance) -- Michael ___ plugins mailing

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-06-24 Thread ncameron
mherger wrote: > >> If this is a new limitation, the previous thread mentioned something > >> about entering a Spotify Client ID to remedy it - is this a feasible > >> approach? > > Yes, you'd have to go to https://developer.spotify.com to get your own > client_id. > > Michael I have my Spot

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-06-24 Thread pilot000
mherger wrote: > > > That's pretty much what Spotty does - with the correct option enabled. > Unfortunately this currently isn't available unless local announcements > > are disabled. > > I'll change that for the next release. > Since the Spotty plugin is updated to 2.8.4 and the monitoring

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-06-22 Thread mikitil
Still in Love with spotty for lms thanx again and again. Today i get out of nothing in my squezeboxes the multible error "Datei kann nicht abgespielt werden bla bla" can't play any spotify music. Radio and local music s workng fine. Newest spotty on QLogitechMediaServer 2.04.00 (because 2.09.01 i

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-06-20 Thread pmendiuk
Before your response I tried installing LMS on another machine (Windows 7). That new instance of LMS recognized the squeeze-lite RPI but not the Squeezebox Receiver. It had a blue LED. I then saw your suggestion about uninstalling the helper plugin on my NAS. I uninstalled the helper, stopped

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-06-20 Thread mherger
pmendiuk wrote: > I am running LMS 7.9.2 x86_64-linux on a Synology NAS918+ and Spotty > helper ARMv8/aarch64 v0.20.0. The player is a Logitech Squeezebox > Receiver FW 77. Both devices are wired ethernet connections. Unlikely to be the culprit for your issues, but uninstall the ARMv8 helper,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-06-20 Thread pmendiuk
Well that explains the audio returning eventually. I really wish I could this working again. pmendiuk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=62342 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showth

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-06-20 Thread Michael Herger
I run now a script which checks via Spotify API the available devices (GET https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/devices). The script runs every minute and kills the LMS spotty deamon process if the device is no longer available in SC. That's pretty much what Spotty does - with the correct option

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-06-20 Thread pilot000
I come back again with the issue where the LMS player in no longer conencted with the Spotify Connect API. I run now a script which checks via Spotify API the available devices (GET https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/devices). The script runs every minute and kills the LMS spotty deamon process

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-06-18 Thread pmendiuk
I have been experiencing intermittent Spotify audio with synchronized players for quite a while. Today it has become very intermittent with a single player. If I switch to a non LMS spotify connect player there is no intermittent playback with the same playlist. I have also noticed that the tr

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-06-18 Thread pmendiuk
I have been experiencing intermittent audio with multiple synchronized players and Spotify for quite a while. Spotify on a single player seemed to be better but today with just one player it has become extremely intermittent. I've also noticed that the track position will jump back repeatedly w

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-06-18 Thread Michael Herger
How often does it check the connection? Every 10 minutes or so would be better than nothing. That's what it's currently set to. -- Michael ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-06-18 Thread slartibartfast
mherger wrote: > > So do I need to leave "Monitor connection" checked? > > I'd prefer if you hadn't to. But it's there for a reason. It's disabled > by default as it could become pretty heavy on the Spotify backend (well, > > at least in the range I'm allowed to use it for) if everybody used

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-06-18 Thread slartibartfast
mherger wrote: > > So do I need to leave "Monitor connection" checked? > > I'd prefer if you hadn't to. But it's there for a reason. It's disabled > by default as it could become pretty heavy on the Spotify backend (well, > > at least in the range I'm allowed to use it for) if everybody used

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-06-18 Thread Michael Herger
So do I need to leave "Monitor connection" checked? I'd prefer if you hadn't to. But it's there for a reason. It's disabled by default as it could become pretty heavy on the Spotify backend (well, at least in the range I'm allowed to use it for) if everybody used it. -- Michael ___

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-06-18 Thread slartibartfast
mherger wrote: > > Seems as though the standard daemon checking does not detect the > > connection issue but the "monitor connection" process does. > > That's correct: standard checking only checks whether the process is > still alive. But there obviously are systems where the daemons might be

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-06-17 Thread Michael Herger
Seems as though the standard daemon checking does not detect the connection issue but the "monitor connection" process does. That's correct: standard checking only checks whether the process is still alive. But there obviously are systems where the daemons might be running, but no longer seen

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-06-17 Thread slartibartfast
This morning all my players have disappeared from Spotify Connect. I set Spotty logging to info and I can see that the daemons are being checked every minute but no action is taken. How do I tell if the daemons are actually running? Does the plugin think they are running so does not restart them.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-06-17 Thread Michael Herger
Great - thanks, I'll try that! So, I take it the 199 songs is a real limit / I don't have anything misconfigured? Thanks again! The limit I set is 200 tracks. But under certain circumstances it can be a bit lower indeed. -- Michael ___ plugins mai

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-06-17 Thread the_arm
Great - thanks, I'll try that! So, I take it the 199 songs is a real limit / I don't have anything misconfigured? Thanks again! mherger wrote: > >> If this is a new limitation, the previous thread mentioned something > >> about entering a Spotify Client ID to remedy it - is this a feasible > >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-06-17 Thread Michael Herger
If this is a new limitation, the previous thread mentioned something about entering a Spotify Client ID to remedy it - is this a feasible approach? Yes, you'd have to go to https://developer.spotify.com to get your own client_id. -- Michael ___ plu

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

2019-06-17 Thread the_arm
hi everyone - sorry to ask again but I didn't get any response to my original question last week: the_arm wrote: > Hello - I've found recently that Spotty (through the LMS web interface) > will only pull 199 songs into a playlist regardless of the length of the > playlist on spotify. This is NO

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