2020-08-12, 12:13
This is not really a support request. More of a desire and thinking if there is any technical way it can be done.
I would really like to integrate spotify tracks into my normal Kodi library, and into Kodi playlists. That is in the library, I might have an album or track that is on my hard drive to be played as usual, and I might have an album with tracks that are just a reference to spotify tracks, to be played via the addon.
In the same way, I can then build a kodi playlist with both local and spotify tracks in it.
This appears to be close to impossible - it appears to need something like a fake container format that references the spotify ID, and then a player that somehow knows that fake container format and then makes a spotify call whenever it sees the spotify ID. But that seems rather low level a solution, and I would rather have something that does this within Kodi in conjuction with this spotify addon. But I can't imagine how to achieve this.
I just wondered if any of the many clever people on this list can think of other approaches for implementing this within Kodi. I can do spare-time coding if there is a neat approach, but I do have a day job. It might be there are better places to discuss this than here. Apologies in advance if that is so.
I would really like to integrate spotify tracks into my normal Kodi library, and into Kodi playlists. That is in the library, I might have an album or track that is on my hard drive to be played as usual, and I might have an album with tracks that are just a reference to spotify tracks, to be played via the addon.
In the same way, I can then build a kodi playlist with both local and spotify tracks in it.
This appears to be close to impossible - it appears to need something like a fake container format that references the spotify ID, and then a player that somehow knows that fake container format and then makes a spotify call whenever it sees the spotify ID. But that seems rather low level a solution, and I would rather have something that does this within Kodi in conjuction with this spotify addon. But I can't imagine how to achieve this.
I just wondered if any of the many clever people on this list can think of other approaches for implementing this within Kodi. I can do spare-time coding if there is a neat approach, but I do have a day job. It might be there are better places to discuss this than here. Apologies in advance if that is so.