Fantastic!
I have been using the old 3.x plugin for a while now and although I had come up with some workarounds for it’s quirks, this new total rewrite works just as I’d hoped it would. I haven’t run into any problems with it so far.
Kudos to @volumio and the development team: @ashthespy, @balbuze & @skikirkwood
Cheers,
Andrew
RBPi 3+
System: 3.546
DAC: HiFiBerry DAC Plus
Mixer Type: Hardware
Edited to include Kudos to @volumio
Hi!
Glad if everything is fine for you!
But something needs to be updated… Credits! All for @volumio and team.
Thanks to them;-)
So true! Thanks for reminding me. I have just edited it.
By pressing the “skip-back-button” either in the Spotify-App or in the Spotify-plugin in Volumio, the track is played backwards at high speed. Furthermoore if I click on one track, the whole album/playlist is added to the queue and can’t be removed.
LOG: http://logs.volumio.org/volumio/hCjPavs.html
Version of Volumio: 3.512
Model: Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.5
Spotify-plugin: 4.0.1
Please upgrade to the latest stable version: V3.546 and test again.
If this still happens, disable the plugins and test again.
This has been tested very well and this behavior hasn’t been reported by any of the testers.
The plugin seems to work excellently.
I only find one significant interface drawback: important metadata such as the release year and the nature of the work (album or single) are not displayed in the list of an artist’s production (as it happens in the Spotify app). Is it possible to add this feature?
plugin doesn’t seem to consistantly respect the ‘max volume’ settings in volumio playback settings.
eg, using spotify connect, play one track - at volume in spotify=50%, max volume setting=50% should mean volume is about 25% of max. this works, but when it ticks over to the next track it seems to ignore the max volume setting and blast you at 50%.
if you then click the volume slider in spotify (don’t need to move it), it seems to recalculate the volume and now respects the ‘max volume’ setting.
if you turn off the ‘max volume’ setting in playback options (ie, set to 100%), the volume acts as you would expect, but since i never really want to go above 50% volume it would be better if it respected the setting (consistently).
log: http://logs.volumio.org/volumio/J4Asz4a.html
(note the earlier parts of this log are using the old spotify plugin, only the last hour or so are relevant)
EDIT: not sure if it’s related, but the line in the log:
Oct 29 10:43:59 speakers-lounge volumio[823]: SPOTIFY: received: {"type":"volume","data":{"value":29,"max":100}}
Oct 29 10:43:59 speakers-lounge volumio[823]: SPOTIFY: RECEIVED SPOTIFY VOLUME 30
Oct 29 10:43:59 speakers-lounge volumio[823]: SPOTIFY: RECEIVED VOLUMIO VOLUME 30
Max volume seems to be 100 here, when it’s 50 in my volumio playback settings? Perhaps it’s not retrieving this correctly?
File spotifyDaemonVolumeMap.json in new Spotify plugin is missing values (no equivalents for 19, 39, 59, 79 and 99).
https://github.com/volumio/volumio-plugins-sources/blob/master/spotify/spotifyDaemonVolumeMap.json
Is there some particular reason to left those values out or is it a bug?
In normal use this does not cause any issues but for example when using external volume control it gets NaN values for those missing map points.
UPDATE: this is now fixed by removing the usage of file.
I only find one significant interface drawback: important metadata such as the release year and the nature of the work (album or single) are not displayed
Fully agree that year is crucial part of music and album identification (along with name and albumart) and it should be displayed in a modern music player.
Officially it seems never to be implemented - Add "year" in player state
For myself I reimplemented albums and tracks pages for better UX, added year into state to be able to display it in any player’s UIs:
To be honest still wandering why authors against of the displaying year.
Absolutely agree. Personally, I’m very curious about music and discovering new artists. When I visit an artist’s profile, it’s essential, in my opinion, to have a breakdown of their releases by the year of publication and by the type of work (whether it’s a single or an album). It’s no coincidence that all streaming platforms provide this information.
shuffle seems broken.
repeat the same not connected to volumio, and it shuffles properly. how odd!
http://logs.volumio.org/volumio/E3y3Ncm.html
EDIT: presumably this fixes: feat(spotify): add support for setting shuffle and repeat (via connect) by phts · Pull Request #264 · volumio/volumio-plugins-sources · GitHub
More good news: found today that device select within Spotify Windows Client does work w/ the new Plugin. Thanks!
Hi there
The new plugin seems to work really well, and I am not seeing the issues that I was previously.
However, I have noticed that when I browse the list of my Spotify Playlist in Volumio it is shorter then when I look browse it directly in Spotify, i.e., via the website.
Not sure why, and there does not seem to be any pattern to what is ‘missing’ under Volumio, i.e., it is NOT either the first or the last entries…just seems to be random.
Not sure what logs would help in relation to this, or would screen shots of each of the browse list be of any help?
Cheers, TheCharbits
Thanks…but I have less that 50 favourites in my Spotify list but I am still not seeing the whole list in Volumio…so am wondering whether there is something else going on here? 
Currently it is set as 20 items in the app, as I remember
First of all, thanks for all your feedbacks and support. Thanks especially to those of you who subscribed to Volumio Premium, this means a lot to us and allows us to keep on improving.
Then, good news. New version out: 4.0.2
What has been fixed\improved
What next
What won’t be fixed
A huge thank you to devgianlu and phts which did a major contribution here!
I just updated it - what an improvement. I am particularly pleased the limit of 50 items has been fixed.
Well done team and thanks
