[htpcero]

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First off, thanks to the add-on devs for bringing spotify support to xbmc. Nice!

Now the issue: when playing songs, and going through a playlist, XBMC will suddenly stop playing music in the middle of the song; XBMC seems to thing it is still playing music because the "seconds counter" is still running, and when the "silent" song finishes, sometimes the next song will start with audio OK.

This appeared to be very random, and happening sometimes in a minute or two into a song, sometimes in the first few seconds.

I followed the instructions and disabled the CUCRClyrics functions of "search embedded lyrics" and also "search for local lyrics". I restarted XBMC many times after that, to no avail. Lyrics would appear to work sometimes, over multiple songs.

Then I found out that this was related to "synchronized lyrics", of certain songs specifically - the audio stops when the synchronized bar moves for the first time; or when no lyrics at all are found: audio stops when CU CRC Lyrics times out of all its sources (a minute or so into a song). When there are lyrics and those are not synchronized, no issues.

My workaround was to disable "Lyrics as a service" (so that playlist won't stop mid-way, on specific songs), and I prevent launching Lyrics when playing back spotimc.

Anyhow - it would be nice to have spotimc and the lyrics sript place nice to each other. Both are awesome

Which XBMC version are you running? There was some deadlocking on the Python JSON interface that caused timeout issues. Versions prior to Gotham (13.0) are affected.

This is on the latest stable XBMC / 13.1, on ubuntu 14.04 patched up as of today.