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Hi, I had to downgrade the addon due to the following problem. When I choose a song, it will be played on the last device that has spotify open. To clarify, when I choose a song on my Kodi (RPi) my phone suddenly starts to play the song, and I can't switch to play it local on the RPi. The settings of the spotify connect says that it will be played locally, however I haven't managed to play a single song locally on the RPi. The downgraded version just works fine like it used too. I understand the problems and difficulties currently since spotify want to shutdown libspotify. This post is purely for feedback and further help for the addon.
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- RPi 3
- LibreElec 7.0.3
- Kodi 16.1
- Addon 1.0.30
Kind regards
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(2017-07-12, 15:55)Dystant Wrote: Hi, I had to downgrade the addon due to the following problem. When I choose a song, it will be played on the last device that has spotify open. To clarify, when I choose a song on my Kodi (RPi) my phone suddenly starts to play the song, and I can't switch to play it local on the RPi. The settings of the spotify connect says that it will be played locally, however I haven't managed to play a single song locally on the RPi. The downgraded version just works fine like it used too. I understand the problems and difficulties currently since spotify want to shutdown libspotify. This post is purely for feedback and further help for the addon.
It's the default behaviour of Spotify that playback starts on the last device used. That device is set as the playback device.
When you open the add-on, right away in the first screen click on playback device and select your Pi to change the playback device.
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(2017-07-13, 06:46)theycallmecheese Wrote: (LibreElec Krypton, RasPi 3, addon v1.1.30)
Here's a log taken while Spotify was refusing to play anything. This happens with both 'output directly to sound card' and 'use kodi player' and with audio cache both enabled and disabled: https://paste.ubuntu.com/25073632/
Thanks, can you please test again with version 1.0.31 ?
I've reverted the code to the point where playback was working the best according to reports here.
The lockups still happen every now and than but I'm close to pinpointing the issue to discuss with the Kodi devs.
Version 1.0.31 is back to the point where the playback is handled by Kodi so no more direct output to the sound card and the audio is sent in chunks to the Kodi player to get it playing faster.
My own test results with version 1.0.31 is that it's working pretty well now with only an occasional lockup of the Kodi player.
Spotify Connect control is still a bit flakey though if you try to control the playback from the Kodi OSD. From a remote device it seems to work ok.
I'd like to hear some test reports of people testing with version 1.0.31 to confirm this is indeed working better (remember, still not perfect but we're getting there).
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I'd like to revert as well.
Do you have a link to the 1.0.xx releases? I only see the 1.1.xx releases on github. Hope I'm not missing something obvious. lol
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I have placed the old 1.0.26 version on the repo so you can install that on your "production" machines.
In the meanwhile I've contacted one of the Kodi devs about the lockup issue I'm running into with the new implementation.
The old implementation had that same issue but it only happened sometimes.