[timjon]

Strange why the librespot/spotty executable won't run on your machine.
You can try to open a command prompt, navigate to the Kodi addons folder and try to run spotty.exe manual from plugin.audio.spotify\resources\lib\spotty\windows

I'm very curious what you get as output.

Success!

On trying to launch spotty.exe from the command line, I got a dialog popup with "The program can't start because VCRUNTIME140.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem."

I manually installed the VC++ 2015 redistributable package from https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download...x?id=53587 , after which spotty.exe launched fine, and testing within Kodi I now get audio playback.

I'm guessing most regular PCs will already have this installed from one package or another, hence the reason most people aren't seeing this? My NUC pretty much only has Kodi installed, though.

Many thanks for your help. Not sure if there's any way you can detect the missing DLL and flag it up to end users, but if nothing else, hopefully this thread will help anyone else with the same problem.