Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.4 - more personalised content

2020-10-14 Thread san9jay
mherger wrote: > > I run a pc anyway to host a plex server which also hosts my LMS > media. > > That might actually be the reason why Spotty can't use local > announcements: they conflict with Plex. > > > Regarding the local announcements failing and only the last used > devices > > being

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.4 - more personalised content

2020-10-12 Thread san9jay
Dear Michael, I have a Spotify family account and multiple picoreplayer raspberry Pi playback devices and one Denon amplifier with native Spotify connect support. The LMS server is running 8.x on windows and latest Spotty 4.4 plugin. If i authorize Spotty using the primary account it works

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.4 - more personalised content

2020-10-12 Thread san9jay
mherger wrote: > > > If you're familiar tinkering with a Pi, then I'd strongly suggest you > move your LMS off the Windows machine to a Pi. > > As furnace mentioned there are configurations where local announcements > > fail. In this case you'd only see the devices which you used last.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2020-07-06 Thread san9jay
san9jay wrote: > Having occasional issues with Spotty 4.2.0 and Picoreplayer 6.1.0/ LMS > 8.0.0 windows 10 > > For no obvious reason the playback suddenly stops and when i try to > playback again selecting the spotty device again it says playing back on > that device (though

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2020-07-06 Thread san9jay
Having occasional issues with Spotty 4.2.0 and Picoreplayer 6.1.0/ LMS 8.0.0 windows 10 For no obvious reason the playback suddenly stops and when i try to playback again selecting the spotty device again it says playing back on that device (though there is no audio) for a second or so and then

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2020-07-07 Thread san9jay
Michael, Just to add some more info to my Spotty issue. I have 4 devices that are controlled via Spotty and I have a Denon AV amplifier that has native spotify connect support. This issue of the device showing up in the device list but when you play to the device it doesnt play audio and the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2020-07-06 Thread san9jay
mherger wrote: > > The exact same issue happened again a few minutes after i posted the > > above issue. I looked at the server log and see the following message > > that corresponds with the time when it stopped working. I tried > > reconnecting to the device multiple times without success but

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2020-07-07 Thread san9jay
pavowren wrote: > For couple of days, I have been having trouble with selecting a Spotty > device. > When I click on the device in Spotify app, it shows it in green > highlight and then immediately de-select it. > Spotty device would disappear from the list and then, moments later, > re-appear.

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

2020-06-17 Thread san9jay
Thank you for developing the fantastic Spotty plugin. I am using the Latest version available of LMS 8.0.0 - 1591685001 on windows 10 Using Spotty plugin 4.1.2. I have a Squeezebox boom, two raspberry Pi0 running Picoreplayer 6.x and a Denon-DRA800H amplifier. The Denon has native Spotify

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2020-06-17 Thread san9jay
> Thank you for developing the fantastic Spotty plugin. > > I am using the Latest version available of LMS 8.0.0 - 1591685001 on > windows 10 > Using Spotty plugin 4.1.2. > > I have a Squeezebox boom, two raspberry Pi0 running Picoreplayer 6.x and > a Denon-DRA800H amplifier. > The Denon has

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2020-06-17 Thread san9jay
mherger wrote: > > Just to be clear. My LMS/Spotty is seeing all the devices just fine. > The > > list of devices shows up on the Spotty settings page and since when i > am > > logged into spotify with my primary account those devices show up. > > However at the same time if one of my children

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2020-06-18 Thread san9jay
Dear Michael, I was able to resolve the issue with my family Spotify accounts not being able to see Spotty playback devices. These are the steps I did. Not sure if all steps are required but this worked for me, hope it helps someone else with the same issue. - Deleted my userid/password

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2021-06-20 Thread san9jay
Michael All of a sudden I see spotty has stopped working on my pi zero. I notice the spotty plugin has been upgraded to 4.5.0 I have tried to update the picore player 7.0.0 and all plugins etc and restarted picore. The version details are below. piCorePlayer v7.0.0 | www v00011 | linux

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2021-06-21 Thread san9jay
mherger wrote: > > All of a sudden I see spotty has stopped working on my pi zero. > > I'm sorry for that. You're not alone, see the 4.5 announcement thread: > > http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114726 > > I actually thought Spotty had not worked on the Pi0 all the time! So I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.5 - improved Ogg direct, Autoplay, multi-user setup

2021-06-21 Thread san9jay
castalla wrote: > What about the online integration - see above.? Not sure what exactly you mean by online integration. I checked the Scanner log and I also have errors reported in the log e.g: [21-06-21 15:00:44.0708] Plugins::Spotty::API::Token::_gotTokenInfo (150) Failed to get Spotify

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.5 - improved Ogg direct, Autoplay, multi-user setup

2021-06-22 Thread san9jay
johnco wrote: > After the update to 4.5 spotty now fails to load & the spotty app now > shows: > Failed to get access token > Please check Settings/Advanced/Spotty Spotify for Squeezebox in the web > interface. > > . Not sure if it is the same problem i faced but try to install the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.5 - improved Ogg direct, Autoplay, multi-user setup

2021-06-21 Thread san9jay
mherger wrote: > > My first post raising the issue was using the B. I've no idea why > the > > first info I posted refers to ARMv8... If I check now it's showing > armv7 > > (see below).. I resurrected the zero to see if it would work. > Sorry > > for the confusion. > > I've now uploaded

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2021-05-18 Thread san9jay
mherger wrote: > > That is indeed strange that you dont experience it as much!. > > For me it is rare that a playlist plays two songs one after another > > without intervention from me to click the next button to choose the > next > > track. It pauses at the end of the track > > There isn't

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2021-05-17 Thread san9jay
mherger wrote: > > Any hope that the librespot upgrade will fix the very long standing > > issue of when using Spotify Connect the playlists stop after nearly > > every song? That remains the most frustrating issue I have with > Spotty. > > There's always hope. But I can't tell. It's been

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2021-05-17 Thread san9jay
mherger wrote: > > I'm in the process of (trying to) update spotty to the latest librespot. > > Let's hope some of these issues will be fixed once I get there. Michael, Any hope that the librespot upgrade will fix the very long standing issue of when using Spotify Connect the playlists stop

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2021-05-17 Thread san9jay
slartibartfast wrote: > What are your squeezelite settings? Are you using default buffer > settings? I don't see your issue either playing to a Pi3B with pCP 7. > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk Yes. all defaults. Have not changed anything on that front

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2021-05-26 Thread san9jay
mherger wrote: > > > But they're not playing music independently at the same time, are they? > > Because that's definitely not Spotify's model. AFAIK it's still one > account, one playback. > No. Only either Android or macbook is being used at any given time using the same account.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2021-02-09 Thread san9jay
Michael, I have been having issues with all my devices when playing a playlist. After each song 9 times out of 10 it will stop at the end of the first track and I have to click next song or click play again. It then plays one song and repeats the same issue. Sometimes it may play 2 tracks and

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2021-02-09 Thread san9jay
mherger wrote: > > After each song 9 times out of 10 it will stop at the end of the > first > > track and I have to click next song or click play again. It then > plays > > one song and repeats the same issue. Sometimes it may play 2 tracks > and > > then stop. > > And you're sure there's no

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2021-02-10 Thread san9jay
san9jay wrote: > Yes. 100% sure that no one else was using my account at the same time, > though I did have both Spotify on my macbook open and on my android > phone. I have seen the same happen even when only the macbook or only > the android Spotify was open. > > I am usin

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2021-02-11 Thread san9jay
Also not sure if it is related but if you pause playback for about 30 seconds or so and click play again the track will start playing but no audio output on the LMS/Spotty device. If you then click the play from start icon on spotify or the play next track icon the output works again>

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2021-02-11 Thread san9jay
mherger wrote: > > Also not sure if it is related but if you pause playback for about 30 > > seconds or so and click play again the track will start playing but > no > > audio output on the LMS/Spotty device. If you then click the play > from > > start icon on spotify or the play next track

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2021-02-22 Thread san9jay
SchOX wrote: > Hi > > If you just want a "Spotify Speaker" there are better solutions than > using PiCore... (If you don't want LMS ui)... > This might be a alternative? : 'BalenaSoundOS' > (https://dashboard.balena-cloud.com/signup) > Not having used Balena Sound could you let me know why

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2021-02-14 Thread san9jay
san9jay wrote: > Michael, > > I have been having issues with all my devices when playing a playlist. > > After each song 9 times out of 10 it will stop at the end of the first > track and I have to click next song or click play again. It then plays > one song and r

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2021-02-15 Thread san9jay
mherger wrote: > > Any debugging i can do to identify the issue here? It is very > annoying > > to keep having to click play next track to keep my music playing. > > I'm sorry to say that although Connect has been rather touchy and > intermittent for many, I haven't found any solution to it

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2021-02-22 Thread san9jay
billtsig wrote: > Hello everybody > > Today i install the spotty app to my raspberry pi 4 to use it as a > "spotify speaker" > > it worked but the response is verry slow i pouse the song from the > spotify app and the song stops after several seconds eg.15sec in general > the response is