[glk1001]

Hi,

I can briefly explain how the current Spotify plugin works and then I can mention Spotify connect.

The plugin as it stands now uses two main underlying third party libraries: "spotipy" and "spotty".
Spotipy is a python library that talks to the Spotify web API and is used by the Kodi Spotify plugin
to do authorisation and build menus of playlists, music, etc. Spotty is a binary executable (based
off the "librespot" project) that allows the plugin to stream selected tracks from Spotify directly
to the underlying Kodi music player.

In an earlier version of this Spotify plugin, Spotify connect was included as an experimental option.
But in order to get the plugin working for later versions of Kodi I stripped out the connect option
which made the python code much, much simpler and easy to work with. There have been a couple
of requests for the connect option so I am looking at what's required to put it back.

Just for my understanding what's the main attraction of connect? For example, I'm happy to use the Kodi
menus to navigate Spotify and play music directly inside Kodi. What are the advantages and use cases for
Spotify connect to Kodi?