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

2019-05-24 Thread Czig
Czig wrote: > Same problem here with dropouts/skipping when streaming OGG, No > problems if I select FLAC. All clients are SqueezeLite (3x PcP, 1x > Fedora) controlled through LMS/Spotty. Broke out Fedora Squeezelite v1.9.0-1126 from sync group with 3x PcP players, Getting consistent skips

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

2019-05-24 Thread mherger
Czig wrote: > Noticed if you skip forward in a song while streaming OGG, bitrate > changes to "705kbps CBR, Ogg Vorbis (Spotify) (Converted to FLAC)" as > displayed in web controller for duration of track. Same thing occurs on > a Squeezebox Radio (standalone, no sync) . That's correct: as

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

2019-05-23 Thread air_ii
ralphy wrote: > Yesterday, I tracked the spotty skipping issue with squeezelite to the > buffer sizes used in the vorbis decoder. > > Are all the players that are skipping squeezelite based? > > If yes, and you'd like to help test the changes, please PM me the player > details and I'll try to

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

2019-05-23 Thread ralphy
air_ii wrote: > Hi, I've finally found a reason to register, since no one else has > posted this issue, from what I see. > > I've been experiencing skipping tracks recently when playing tracks from > Spotify. A song plays for a few seconds, then it suddenly skips to the > next song. On the

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

2019-05-22 Thread Michael Herger
I've been experiencing skipping tracks recently when playing tracks from Spotify. A song plays for a few seconds, then it suddenly skips to the next song. On the next song it either goes full distance or skips to the next after another few seconds, and so on. Is this when controlling playback

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

2019-05-22 Thread piguy
I too have experienced this issue. air_ii wrote: > Hi, I've finally found a reason to register, since no one else has > posted this issue, from what I see. > > I've been experiencing skipping tracks recently when playing tracks from > Spotify. A song plays for a few seconds, then it suddenly

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

2019-05-22 Thread air_ii
Hi, I've finally found a reason to register, since no one else has posted this issue, from what I see. I've been experiencing skipping tracks recently when playing tracks from Spotify. A song plays for a few seconds, then it suddenly skips to the next song. On the next song it either goes full

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

2019-05-21 Thread Michael Herger
If I understand correctly older versions could output Spotify's ogg stream in flac to the Squeezebox, but the most recent 2.8.x release can stream ogg 'untouched' to the Squeezebox. The Ogg/FLAC/PCM choice is the transport from LMS to the player. But trying to find the settings for this and

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

2019-05-21 Thread slartibartfast
jistme wrote: > I feel embarrassed, being pretty sure I was right and clever. > Thanks for clearing that up ;-)If I had seen that page without any prior > knowledge I would have thought the same. [emoji3] Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk

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

2019-05-21 Thread jistme
slartibartfast wrote: > That seems to only apply to the web player. Other streams are Ogg > Vorbis. I have no idea why the web page you linked to does not mention > Ogg Vorbis, it just causes understandable confusion. [emoji3] > I feel embarrassed, being pretty sure I was right and clever.

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

2019-05-21 Thread slartibartfast
jistme wrote: > Then why does Spotify say they are using AAC? > > https://support.spotify.com/us/using_spotify/system_settings/high-quality-streaming/That > seems to only apply to the web player. Other streams are Ogg Vorbis. I have no idea why the web page you linked to does not mention Ogg

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

2019-05-21 Thread slartibartfast
jistme wrote: > My primary intention was not that I wanted to use flac or pcm. > The objective was to have the unaltered sound quality just as Spotify > streams it. > > So I was looking for some 'untouched' or 'pass-through' setting in > Spotty. > But that is not there. > > Then I thought to

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

2019-05-21 Thread jistme
slartibartfast wrote: > Ogg Vorbis is untouched as Spotify streams it. > Then why does Spotify say they are using AAC? https://support.spotify.com/us/using_spotify/system_settings/high-quality-streaming/ jistme's

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

2019-05-21 Thread jistme
slartibartfast wrote: > You suggested that you wanted Flac or PCM. My primary intention was not that I wanted to use flac or pcm. The objective was to have the unaltered sound quality just as Spotify streams it. So I was looking for some 'untouched' or 'pass-through' setting in Spotty. But

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

2019-05-21 Thread slartibartfast
jistme wrote: > Thanks slartibartfast > But I don't understand. > > In that advanced settings menu I see that flac, ogg and pcm are enabled, > and mp3 is disabled for Spotty. > That's fine for me, since I prefer that Spotify's stream is not > re-encoded from ogg to mp3, and then either flac or

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

2019-05-21 Thread kidstypike
Does this help? https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?108080-Question-regarding-Spotty-Spotify-stream-quality-options=916305=1#post916305 *Server - LMS 7.9.2 *Pi3B+/pCP 4.1.0 25K library playlists & LMS cache on SSD (ntfs) *Study -* Pi3B+/pCP 4.1.0/pi screen/HiFiBerry DAC+/jivelite,

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

2019-05-21 Thread jistme
Thanks slartibartfast But I don't understand. In that advanced settings menu I see that flac, ogg and pcm are enabled, and mp3 is disabled for Spotty. That's fine for me, since I prefer that Spotify's stream is not re-encoded from ogg to mp3, and then either flac or ogg 'untouched' would seem

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

2019-05-21 Thread slartibartfast
jistme wrote: > I just found this gem, and I already have a (stupid?) question. > > If I understand correctly older versions could output Spotify's ogg > stream in flac to the Squeezebox, but the most recent 2.8.x release can > stream ogg 'untouched' to the Squeezebox. > But trying to find the

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

2019-05-21 Thread jistme
I just found this gem, and I already have a (stupid?) question. If I understand correctly older versions could output Spotify's ogg stream in flac to the Squeezebox, but the most recent 2.8.x release can stream ogg 'untouched' to the Squeezebox. But trying to find the settings for this and

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

2019-05-21 Thread jistme
Thank you for creating and maintaining this plugin! It's a fantastic addition to have. jistme's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=63566 View this thread:

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

2019-05-20 Thread scala
scala wrote: > ... Spotify Connect still does not work. I'm pretty much sure it worked > fine in the past... > It the must be something else wrong on my side, but I cannot identify > what > Dear Michael, following the suggestion of another user I have rebooted my NAS and all problems with

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

2019-05-16 Thread anadigi
mherger wrote: > > I have tried both Arm6/7 helpers and is still not working, and the > songs > > are keep skipping one by one. > > But don't you get a warning about the helper not being compatible? What > > kind of CPU is your QNAP using? What model is it? > > > I am using the default

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

2019-05-16 Thread anadigi
mherger wrote: > > I have tried both Arm6/7 helpers and is still not working, and the > songs > > are keep skipping one by one. > > But don't you get a warning about the helper not being compatible? What > > kind of CPU is your QNAP using? What model is it? > > > I am using the default

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

2019-05-16 Thread Michael Herger
I have tried both Arm6/7 helpers and is still not working, and the songs are keep skipping one by one. But don't you get a warning about the helper not being compatible? What kind of CPU is your QNAP using? What model is it? I am using the default (auto) and manual. and it is the same as

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

2019-05-16 Thread anadigi
mherger wrote: > > I have Spotty 2.8.1 on Daphile and 2.8.2 on Qnap. Today all the > sudden > > the Spotty 2.8.2 is not working any more. However, the v2.8.1 on > > Daphile is still working fine! > > Please check Settings/Advanced/Spotty. What helper is it using on the > QNAP? > > -- > >

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

2019-05-15 Thread Michael Herger
I have Spotty 2.8.1 on Daphile and 2.8.2 on Qnap. Today all the sudden the Spotty 2.8.2 is not working any more. However, the v2.8.1 on Daphile is still working fine! Please check Settings/Advanced/Spotty. What helper is it using on the QNAP? -- Michael

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

2019-05-15 Thread Michael Herger
Wat causes the issue with the clicks and popping noises on the beginning of tracks? I also have probleem verharding skipping tracks. I own an innuos zen mini with spotty 2.8.1 No idea. Did it work before the update to 2.8? If so, you might want to try to disable Spotty -> Ogg streaming in

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

2019-05-15 Thread anadigi
I have Spotty 2.8.1 on Daphile and 2.8.2 on Qnap. Today all the sudden the Spotty 2.8.2 is not working any more. However, the v2.8.1 on Daphile is still working fine! anadigi's Profile:

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

2019-05-15 Thread mark.lommers
Wat causes the issue with the clicks and popping noises on the beginning of tracks? I also have probleem verharding skipping tracks. I own an innuos zen mini with spotty 2.8.1 Verstuurd vanaf mijn SM-G955F met Tapatalk

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

2019-05-15 Thread scala
mherger wrote: > You could download http://downloads.nixda.ch/Spotty-2.7.6.zip (the > latest with the old helper), extract it, then copy the spotty-x86_64 > from that archive as spotty-custom somewhere in your server's search > path. Would that work? > Sorry, yesterday I couldn't any

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

2019-05-14 Thread Michael Herger
Again, Spotty 2.7 did not have this behavior, I don't know if this might point you to some subtle differences between the two releases? Hm... that's not good. You could download http://downloads.nixda.ch/Spotty-2.7.6.zip (the latest with the old helper), extract it, then copy the

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

2019-05-14 Thread scala
mherger wrote: > Can you try using the other helper available in > Settings/Advanced/Spotty? Actually I tried yesterday already. Default helper is 64 bit, selecting by hand the 32 bit makes the Touch disappear from the list of Spotify available devices. Re-selecting 64 bit the Touch

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

2019-05-14 Thread Michael Herger
Done! Your Spotty helper seems to be crashing or losing connection all the time. I see it being restarted about five times in the eight or ten minutes that log file covers. Can you try using the other helper available in Settings/Advanced/Spotty? -- Michael

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

2019-05-13 Thread scala
mherger wrote: > > https://www.dropbox.com/request/T3RctyzGgNg0oFDubq6a > Done! scala's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13391 View this thread:

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

2019-05-13 Thread scala
scala wrote: > Perhaps tonight I will try to clear and re-install Spotty and attempt a > new setup of the account via Connect with logging tuned to debug level > for the plugin, if that may help. Dear Michael, Here is what I did. I uninstalled Spotty, removed the prefs file and spotty folder,

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

2019-05-13 Thread Michael Herger
All this took only a few minutes, but the log file is almost 1 MB: is there any way I can privately send it to you (I suppose there are some confidential connection info in it)? https://www.dropbox.com/request/T3RctyzGgNg0oFDubq6a Yes, debug mode is very chatty... -- Michael

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

2019-05-13 Thread scala
Perhaps tonight I will try to clear and re-install Spotty and attempt a new setup of the account via Connect with logging tuned to debug level for the plugin, if that may help. scala's Profile:

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

2019-05-13 Thread scala
mherger wrote: > >Are you running LMS in a Docker container? I'm using the direct install of QLogitechMediaServer scala's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13391 View this thread:

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

2019-05-13 Thread Michael Herger
I did not change my configuration. Only change I'm aware of, is that I was running an older version on 7.9.2 (dating to end 2018 - beginning 2019). When restarting LMS to update Spotty plugin to 2.8.x my QNAP downloaded the latest nightly (early May). (QNAP OS and configuration remained

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

2019-05-13 Thread scala
mherger wrote: > >Are you using any kind of firewall on your computer? Could it be the > Spotty daemon cannot talk to LMS? Are you using password protection for > your LMS? No, actually Spotify Connect does not work from my iPhone, either. Also there, I do see the Touch and Radio, but

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

2019-05-12 Thread Michael Herger
However, Spotify connect still does not work: I do see both Touch and Radio from my PC app, but the connection cannot be established. Spotify works only from the LMS interface, or directly from the front panels of the devices. Are you using any kind of firewall on your computer? Could it be the

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

2019-05-12 Thread scala
mherger wrote: > > Please go to Settings/Advanced/File Types and turn off Spotty -> Ogg > streaming. Then try again. > Michael That made the difference: music now plays both on the Touch and the Radio. The streamed music is now converted to FLAC. Thanks! (I had to restart the server to make

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

2019-05-11 Thread Michael Herger
Using the LMS menus I can select for example a song, the cover is displayed on the Touch screen, but it is impossible to play music. Please go to Settings/Advanced/File Types and turn off Spotty -> Ogg streaming. Then try again. -- Michael ___

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

2019-05-11 Thread scala
mherger wrote: > > Can you play using the LMS menus? > Hi Michael thanks for your quick reply. Using the LMS menus I can select for example a song, the cover is displayed on the Touch screen, but it is impossible to play music. I tried different songs and the log is something like this: Code:

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

2019-05-11 Thread Michael Herger
- Setup of Spotify connect runs smoothly and my premium (family) account is connected. - I see my Touch in the list of available devices in the Spotify app on my PC. - I try to connect, but the connection is not established. Can you play using the LMS menus? I activated debug logging for the

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

2019-05-11 Thread scala
Hello, unfortunately since updating to 2.8.x spotty does not work anymore on my QNAP (Intel processor running the latest 7.9.2 nightly using QLogitechMediaServer). With 2.7.x I could use Spotify without problems on a Touch and a Radio, from two different accounts of the family. I just

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

2019-05-10 Thread Michael Herger
Thanks for the quick reply! I'm not sure what tests you wanted me to run but I deleted the account and tried to authenticate again via the Spotify app on my mobile device. Then tried to browse some of the Spotty app menu on LMS web interface. Hopefully there is something in there to assist. Have

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

2019-05-10 Thread Michael Herger
What kind of network connection are you using on the machine running LMS? Where does LMS' cache folder live? Well everything about lms/pcp and music is on the raspberry. it's connected through Wifi (fast enough to watch netflix) lms cache is on "/usr/local/slimserver/Cache" on the raspberry. I

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

2019-05-10 Thread Chag
mherger wrote: > > What kind of network connection are you using on the machine running > LMS? Where does LMS' cache folder live? > Well everything about lms/pcp and music is on the raspberry. it's connected through Wifi (fast enough to watch netflix) lms cache is on

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

2019-05-09 Thread hubble_xm
mherger wrote: > Could you please increase the log level for plugin.spotty to DEBUG, run > a bunch of tests, then send me the full server.log.zip file? > > https://www.dropbox.com/request/T3RctyzGgNg0oFDubq6a Thanks for the quick reply! I'm not sure what tests you wanted me to run but I

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

2019-05-09 Thread Michael Herger
I have a laptop with spotify, a raspi with pCp where speakers are connected (through a DAC). I start spotify on my Laptop, connect to SpotifyConnect. I think it means both server and player on the raspi ? Well, I don't have access to your system, you must tell me :-). You'll find information

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

2019-05-09 Thread mherger
hubble_xm wrote: > Was wondering if anybody might have some pointers for me. I have LMS > (Logitech Media Server Version: 7.9.2 - 1556796842) running an OSX > (10.14.4 Mojave) and have been trying to get Spotty (v2.8.1) working > without luck. It seems that there is a failure to authenticate by

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

2019-05-09 Thread Chag
mherger wrote: > > > Which exact helper (see Settings/Advanced/Spotty)? > /usr/local/slimserver/Cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/Spotty/Bin/arm-linux/spotty-hf (v0.20.0) mherger wrote: > > > > i'm using Picore Player (4.1) on a Raspberry Pi 3b+ (with > armV7)[/color] > > Server? Player?

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

2019-05-09 Thread Michael Herger
Switched to Default spotty helper (V 0.20) Which exact helper (see Settings/Advanced/Spotty)? i'm using Picore Player (4.1) on a Raspberry Pi 3b+ (with armV7) Server? Player? Both? -- Michael ___ plugins mailing list

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

2019-05-09 Thread Chag
mherger wrote: > > Please use the default Spotty helper. > > What kind of player are you using? Where is your LMS running? What kind > > of Pi are you using for the LMS machine (if that's the case)? > Switched to Default spotty helper (V 0.20) i'm using Picore Player (4.1) on a Raspberry

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

2019-05-09 Thread Michael Herger
If you're talking about : "Buffer size settings", it's empty. Should I change it and set a value ? (and what value ?) No. Please use the default Spotty helper. What kind of player are you using? Where is your LMS running? What kind of Pi are you using for the LMS machine (if that's the

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

2019-05-09 Thread Chag
If you're talking about : "Buffer size settings", it's empty. Should I change it and set a value ? (and what value ?) Chag's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=69144 View this thread:

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

2019-05-08 Thread Michael Herger
When my laptop or mobile is streaming spotify to my piCoreplayer through Spotify Connect, if I want to change songs, ajust volume or anything, I sometimes get up to 30 seconds delay between the moment I clicked and the effect. Did you modify the squeezelite buffer in pCP? -- Michael

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

2019-05-08 Thread Chag
Hi, I have : piCorePlayer v4.1.0 linux 4.14.81-pcpCore_v7 piCore v9.2pCP Squeezelite v1.9.0-1121-pCP, Logitech Media Server Version : 7.9.2 - 1556796842 @ Thu May 2 13:52:28 CEST 2019 I use helper /usr/local/slimserver/Cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/SpottyARMLegacyBin/Bin/spotty-muslhf

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

2019-05-07 Thread mherger
matthewm wrote: > Does your plugin support Connect for free accounts? No, Spotty does require a paid account. It's not using their SDK. Michael http://www.herger.net/slim-plugins - Spotty, MusicArtistInfo mherger's

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

2019-05-05 Thread mherger
labrekke wrote: > I also wanted to ask a question: Spotty should now support the dynamic > playlists. Can anyone tell me how I get access to "Daily mix" on my SB > Radio? The menus just shows albums, (regular) playlists and artists, > even though I have upgraded the Spotty plugin to 2.8.1.

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

2019-05-04 Thread atca
mherger wrote: > > Do you mean Spotify Protocol Handler plugin? I can remove that I > thought > > it was needed for SB Classic. > > That's a legacy thing. It was necessary when there still was official > Spotify support for the SB Radio/Touch, but not Classic. But about two > years ago

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

2019-05-04 Thread Michael Herger
Do you mean Spotify Protocol Handler plugin? I can remove that I thought it was needed for SB Classic. That's a legacy thing. It was necessary when there still was official Spotify support for the SB Radio/Touch, but not Classic. But about two years ago Spotify turned off that support, too.

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

2019-05-04 Thread atca
Do you mean Spotify Protocol Handler plugin? I can remove that I thought it was needed for SB Classic. The symptoms are I try to Spotify connect to my squeezebox devices. They don't show in my Mac or Android Spotify clients. I then login to the LMS Spotify plug in settings page to see no

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

2019-05-04 Thread Michael Herger
Some other issues with shairplay no doubt. Your devices seem to disappear all the time. Spotty then needs to restart its deamons, too. Then there's some network hiccup (I guess) where a bunch of players disappeared and Spotty failed to get a token from the backend servers. And please

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

2019-05-04 Thread Michael Herger
I too am having some issues with Spotty login. I often have to remove and add anew my Spotify credentials on the LMS Settings page in order to be able to search and play music with Spotty. Would spotty complain about the lack of credentials? Or do you routinely do it because you think it does

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

2019-05-03 Thread atca
mherger wrote: > > my spotty plugin seems to be consistently losing my spotify > credentials > > feels like every time I use it I have to re supply them through > > settings. > > Could you please check the server.log to see whether Spotty is warning > about some file being corrupted? > >

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

2019-05-03 Thread matek994
Hi Michael, I too am having some issues with Spotty login. I often have to remove and add anew my Spotify credentials on the LMS Settings page in order to be able to search and play music with Spotty. I have even automated the removal and re-adding of the credentials with a cron job.

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

2019-05-03 Thread slartibartfast
mherger wrote: > > I think I suggested that my credentials might have been removed > > after playing Spotify tracks on an Echo. I now think that was a red > > herring. I tried to trigger the issue and could not. > > Are you still experiencing the corrupted credentials issue? > > -- > >

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

2019-05-02 Thread Michael Herger
I think I suggested that my credentials might have been removed after playing Spotify tracks on an Echo. I now think that was a red herring. I tried to trigger the issue and could not. Are you still experiencing the corrupted credentials issue? -- Michael

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

2019-05-02 Thread Michael Herger
Still no content. I'm using the legacy ARM 0.12.2 helper and there's no content under any of the Spotty headings (Artist, Album, Playlists, etc.). This is what's in the "Advanced/Spotty" window: Please go to Settings/Advanced/Logging, set the level for plugin.spotty to INFO, then do your

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

2019-05-02 Thread dbasskin
mherger wrote: > > I tried, but it made no difference. When I click on Spotty in the web > > interface, the various categories appear in the left pane (Artist, > > Album, etc.) but clicking on those categories results in an empty > > window. > > Isn't this different in that you previously

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

2019-05-02 Thread slartibartfast
mherger wrote: > > my spotty plugin seems to be consistently losing my spotify > credentials > > feels like every time I use it I have to re supply them through > > settings. > > Could you please check the server.log to see whether Spotty is warning > about some file being corrupted? > >

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

2019-05-02 Thread Michael Herger
my spotty plugin seems to be consistently losing my spotify credentials feels like every time I use it I have to re supply them through settings. Could you please check the server.log to see whether Spotty is warning about some file being corrupted? You're not using Alexa integration, are

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

2019-05-02 Thread giraffe
Hi Michael I decided to restore a SDCard image from a few weeks back, which has Spotty 2.7.5, and everything worked OK. I then updated to Spotty 2.8.1 and it still works fine! Odd, but my problem seems to be solved. Thanks for looking into the problem for me.

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

2019-05-02 Thread atca
my spotty plugin seems to be consistently losing my spotify credentials feels like every time I use it I have to re supply them through settings. Is there a way to make the credentials more sticky? Logitech Media Server Version: 7.9.1 - 1504317335 @ Mon Sep 4 07:13:56 UTC 2017 Hostname:

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

2019-05-02 Thread giraffe
mherger wrote: > > That parameter shouldn't break things, but enable features. What system > > are you running your LMS on? > It's a RPi 3 (if I remember right), with a Samsung SSD for storage, connected directly to my router via wired ethernet. Running max2play (up to date). LMS details as

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

2019-05-02 Thread Michael Herger
Interesting. i couldn't see any obvious weird characters in recently added albums. But recently I had to rescan my (non-spotify) library of local files in LMS and it kept failing with non-latin characters: typically things like ’ (0146) which I started replacing with '. But following your advice

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

2019-05-02 Thread giraffe
mherger wrote: > > OK, I did that. Let me know if you see something. Thanks for your > help! > > The issue seems to occur when you pull up your list of Spotify albums. > Did you recently add a new album? > > The code which seems to be causing problems is around utf8 encodings. > Would you

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

2019-05-02 Thread Michael Herger
OK, I did that. Let me know if you see something. Thanks for your help! The issue seems to occur when you pull up your list of Spotify albums. Did you recently add a new album? The code which seems to be causing problems is around utf8 encodings. Would you have albums with non-latin

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

2019-05-01 Thread giraffe
mherger wrote: > Wow... never seen anything like that. Could you please enable DEBUG > logging for plugin.spotty (Settings/Advanced/Logging), re-run that > procedure, then upload your server.log.zip to > https://www.dropbox.com/request/T3RctyzGgNg0oFDubq6a? Thanks! OK, I did that. Let me know

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

2019-05-01 Thread Michael Herger
This track skips to the next song consistantly with squeezelite at 1:10 into it. spotify://track:0nFKHCf1Ibij8m370l2KlZ No problem on my pCP 4.10 (Pi0, JustBoom DAC/Amp). Michael. Do the custom ssltest squeezelite builds play the Good Times Roll track to completion? Yes, it does (now on

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

2019-05-01 Thread ralphy
mherger wrote: > > This track skips to the next song consistantly with squeezelite at > 1:10 > > into it. > > > > spotify://track:0nFKHCf1Ibij8m370l2KlZ > > No problem on my pCP 4.10 (Pi0, JustBoom DAC/Amp). > > -- > > Michael Michael. Do the custom ssltest squeezelite builds play the

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

2019-04-30 Thread mherger
giraffe wrote: > Hi Michael > Since I updated to 2.8.x (I think) I can't load my Artists or Albums > from my library in Spotty. I can load playlists, and search for things, > and that all seems to work. When I click on Albums or Artists in the web > interface (or in SqueezeCtrl app), I just get

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

2019-04-29 Thread Michael Herger
I tried, but it made no difference. When I click on Spotty in the web interface, the various categories appear in the left pane (Artist, Album, etc.) but clicking on those categories results in an empty window. Isn't this different in that you previously wouldn't even have gotten the menu?

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

2019-04-29 Thread dbasskin
mherger wrote: > >> Is this a ReadyNAS? Please give the Spotty Legacy Helper plugin a > try. > > > > I'll do that. Do I simply check off "Legacy Helper" in the 3rd party > > list? Do I have to disable anything else? > > Nothing to disable, just install that like any other plugin. It won't >

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

2019-04-29 Thread Michael Herger
Is this a ReadyNAS? Please give the Spotty Legacy Helper plugin a try. I'll do that. Do I simply check off "Legacy Helper" in the 3rd party list? Do I have to disable anything else? Nothing to disable, just install that like any other plugin. It won't add any LMS code, but only additional

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

2019-04-29 Thread dbasskin
mherger wrote: > Is this a ReadyNAS? Please give the Spotty Legacy Helper plugin a try. I'll do that. Do I simply check off "Legacy Helper" in the 3rd party list? Do I have to disable anything else? Thanks again for your help. David Basskin Toronto

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

2019-04-29 Thread dbasskin
mherger wrote: > Is this a ReadyNAS? Please give the Spotty Legacy Helper plugin a try. I'll do that. Do I simply check off "Legacy Helper" in the 3rd party list? Do I have to disable anything else? Thanks again for your help. David Basskin Toronto

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

2019-04-29 Thread jasell
jasell wrote: > Problem still remains. > I have the problem playing on my SB3. > I'm on latest 7.9.2 nightly and latest spotty 2.8.1. > > I'm now logging Spotty using info level. > Log too large to upload here... the log doesn't say me anything but I > can provide it for better analysis. > >

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

2019-04-28 Thread paul-
I saw a note over on the tinycore forum, Make sure your timezone is set properly, and your time is correct. Seems that that will cause this type of problem. piCorePlayer a small player for the Raspberry Pi in RAM. Homepage: https://www.picoreplayer.org Please 'donate'

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

2019-04-28 Thread Michael Herger
This track skips to the next song consistantly with squeezelite at 1:10 into it. spotify://track:0nFKHCf1Ibij8m370l2KlZ No problem on my pCP 4.10 (Pi0, JustBoom DAC/Amp). -- Michael ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com

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

2019-04-28 Thread ralphy
philippe_44 wrote: > I've been succesfully playing a few hours of spotty ogg direct in 3 > modes > > 1- To a foobar2000 instance where my UPnP bridge is a passthrough (I > don't know what libogg version is used by foobar2000) > 2- To a Boom > 3- To a Sonos using my UPnP bridge but decoding it

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

2019-04-28 Thread jasell
jasell wrote: > When using the direct OGG stream lately I have experienced that songs > stops, players freeze or reboots themself’s. > > I have a combinations of SB3, receivers and touch. This happens as > players played alone or using Group players. > > When changing back to deciding to pcm

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

2019-04-28 Thread Wigster
Hi, LMS latest 7.9.2 nightly on WinServer 2012R2, Spotty 2.8.1 playing on a PCP4.1 device. This is a little intermittent, so I am having trouble giving a good bug report. Every so often Spotty will skip around 20 seconds before the end of a track and go onto the next one. I've had this happen

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

2019-04-28 Thread paul-
philippe_44 wrote: > (libogg 1.3.2 and libvorbis 1.3.5) > > So there is likely something with the new libogg/libvorbis versions, no? Users of pCP 4.0-4.1 are using the same versions of libogg and libvorbis you list above. piCorePlayer a small player for the Raspberry Pi in RAM.

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

2019-04-28 Thread ubermes
Hi! I have noticed that when I'm playing to only one player the direct streaming becomes activated and it's working fine, but there's no Replay Gain. This is a problem when mixing Spotify music with locally stored music. But when I switch on another player that is synchronized to the first

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

2019-04-27 Thread philippe_44
I've been succesfully playing a few hours of spotty ogg direct in 3 modes 1- To a foobar2000 instance where my UPnP bridge is a passthrough (I don't know what libogg version is used by foobar2000) 2- To a Boom 3- To a Sonos using my UPnP bridge but decoding it in the bridge as Sonos does not

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

2019-04-27 Thread mherger
dbasskin wrote: > I just installed the latest version of spotty (2.8.1) and it no longer > works. The previous version did work. This is what I found in the > settings: > > Operating system: Debian / armv7l-linux > > ldd (Debian GLIBC 2.19-18+deb8u10.netgear1) 2.19 > Is this a ReadyNAS?

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

2019-04-27 Thread slartibartfast
dbasskin wrote: > I just installed the latest version of spotty (2.8.1) and it no longer > works. The previous version did work. This is what I found in the > settings: > > Operating system: Debian / armv7l-linux > > Helper Applications Folder: >

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