New Volumio Spotify Plugin Open Beta-Testing

NEW VERSION 3.0.6

What this changes:

  • Disabled volume sync to avoid volume jumps and excessive API call request
  • Clear queue when Spotify Connect starts (avoid skipping)
  • Require extended scopes tokens only if user is logged in

Known issue:

  • If you are playing from within Volumio and start another Spotify session from your mobile or PC, the track will skip to the next. Just click again to the track you want to play, and it will play. NOTE: Queue will be cleared if it contains spotify track when you start a connect session.

IMPORTANT! Everyone on a version lower than this, PLEASE UPDATE YOUR PLUGIN TO THIS VERSION!

To do so:

  • Uninstall the plugin you have
  • Restart your device
  • Install new version 3.0.6

Then, a note about current development status. Considering the big difficulties we are having in delivering a stable plugin, we did a deep analysis of the technical stack involved.
Turns out that to solve all the issues completely, and have 100% stable plugins, we do have to do some architectural restructuring of the code of Vollibrespot. This is also a good chance to update everything to the latest version of librespot (which is updating its API as well, as there seems some new issues between Spotify infrastructure and librespot).

For about 20 days there will be less response from the team in this (and others thread) as we enter now in reduced development capacity due to summer vacations.

So, long story short, to have a 100% good plugin, more time is needed and we will be able to deliver it not before the end of the summer.
Rest assured, no effort is being spared so far, and won’t be.

Thanks to everyone is reporting issues and suggestions here, without your help it would have been much harder!

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