Which device:
Name: Volumio3Dev
Model: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Plus Rev 1.3
Which version: Volumio 3.179
DAC: Jabra Link 370
Network: Wired
Type of account
Volumio: Free
Spotify: Premium
Plugins:
Pandora 2.11.1
Spotify 2.03 BETA
System Information 3.0.0
My Custom Interface:
All Volumio, Pandora and Spotify API calls working perfectly with no updates needed from the BETA update!!
NOTE: All testing is done using the Volumio UI (not my custom UI)
Issues:
Stops playing after the first track (inconsistently sometime second track or 6th track)
a. experienced this in a playlist (queue length 100)
b. experienced in and album (queue length 10)
It appears that 100 tracks are loaded from Spotify no matter how long the playlist is.
a. If loading an album, number of track is working properly. i.e. 10 tracks in an album)
Have to log out of Spotify to use Spotify Connect.
a. When these were 2 separate plugins, you could switch between the Connect or Volumio UI versions
b. If logout is required to use Connect, can the username and password be kept in the config so entering every time is not necessary?
Which device: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+
Which version: Volumio 3.251
DAC: HifiBerry Dac+ pro
Network: Wireless
Type of account
Volumio: Free
Spotify: Premium
Spotify is back!
Thank you very much for your work
Which device: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Plus Rev 1.3
Which version: Volumio 3.251
DAC: IQaudIO Pi-DigiAMP+
Network: ethernet
Type of account
Volumio: Free
Spotify: Premium
Hello, thatâs almost perfect
The first thing you might want to emphasis is that to install the plugin, the password must be âvolumioâ
Then everything is working fine when streaming from my spotify app from phone but when using spotify from the volumio web interface, the spotify playlists stop after each songs. The interface still shows the âpauseâ button, like if it is still playing but it stays at the start of the song it just played and doesnât go to the next song.
yes, but I personally change the password as soon as everything is working. So when I tried to install the plugin, as âvolumioâ is hard coded as password in the plugin install script, it fails.
But maybe thatâs only my concern
Unfortunately today I had another problem. Until I first start a song through the volumio web interface, my spotify app on the phone wouldnât display the volumio device as an output. I restarted volumio, the plugin, the spotify app multiple times in most order with no luck. But as soon as I launch a song from the olumio web interface, the phone was able to connect. very strangeâŚ
Thanks a lot guys, for your feedbacks and hints. Iâve updated the Plugin, and hopefully itâs now ready for prime time. I kindly ask you another round of feedbacks before publishing it.
What was fixed:
Fixed stopping between tracks
Unavailable tracks are not shown
Show bitrate and bitdepth
Show metadata when a connect session starts
Fix issue with API endpoint preventing playback in random occasions
To test it:
Uninstall Spotify Plugin
Reboot your device
Type
rm -rf /home/volumio/volumio-plugins-sources/
install it as detailed at the beginning of the post.
If you want to show appreciation for the work weâve put into this plugin (and Volumio in general) please consider subscribing to our premium plan. Not only you show us that you canre, but you get a lot of awesome features that you can use with spotify (for example multiroom synced playback from Spotify Connect, and nice metadata showing on the manifest UI)
I can confirm this same behavior is occurring when I look for Volumio on my Android mobile via Spotify app. I can do it from the Windows 10 OS Spotify app, but not from my Android. I will have to wait for an iphone to see if the experience is the same from another mobile OS. I should be able to test with IOS this evening, will update this reply with my results.
Adding: I can confirm that with the new Spotify plugin update, I am no longer able to connect to Volumio from Android or IOS - it does not see the Volumio device on my network. I have nothing fancy going on with my home network config, am using a TP-Link AC5400.
You posted this around the same time that I installed the beta . Iâm not sure which version I got, but Iâm uninstalling and re-installing just for good measure. So far though, everything seemed to be working correctly. Thanks so much for your hard work on this!
So far so good on my Spotify playlist continuing playback with the queue. I will leave this 12 hour playlist running all day to test long term integrity of playback. I am still unable to see Volumio via Spotify app on my Android mobile, but I note that isnât listed as something addressed in this update.
Worth noting, as I followed the initial instructions to reinstall the plugin, I received a message after entering the first line that the directory already existed. What I did to rectify was AFTER entering the second line to change directory, I went back and entered the first line and the new plugin files downloaded successfully. Then I ran the 3rd line to complete the install, rebooted and enabled the plugin from Volumio plugins section. I canât tell you how much I appreciate the hard work you are putting into this. THANK YOU!!!
Adding: As I noted in another post, Spotify playlists are limited to 100 songs total - I was not able to test the full 12hr playlist today as a result. On the plus side, I started another round of my 100 song limited Spotify playlist, and it is about an hour out from completing. I have put the playlist on repeat to see if that functionality is successful when the playlist is done in full. Will update once it finishes and hopefully starts over playing the queue.
With the updated plugin, now it works as expected. The only issue that I have is the meter needles on PeppyMeter still donât move. Great job Michael!
Hardware: Asus TBS
Software: Volumio 3.301
DAC: Topping D90mqa
Model: Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.4
HiFiBerry DAC2 Pro via wifi
Volumio Premium 3.251
With todayâs update the next track USUALLY starts automatically, but occasionally still stops. I canât really say any specific behaviour leads to this, as it seems a bit random. At least it works most of the time, so a big improvement. Iâll keep on testing to see if I can identify what the trigger is.
All other fixes working, including bitrate displayed.
EDIT: âMy albumsâ and âMy playlistsâ match what I have in the library of my Spotify app, but âMy Top Artistsâ does not show what I see the artists section of my Spotify library.
EDIT2: the weird behaviour was when I played a playlist via the Spotify app and then, whilst that was still playing, went into the new Volumio Spotify plugin and tried to play a different playlist. Jumps between the 2 playlists a bit and then plays the one via Volumio, but then doesnât go to next track. http://logs.volumio.org/volumio/mQnEbCD.html
If you drop your connection from the Spotify app, does the Volumio Spotify playlist do anything different? Try dropping the connection before AND after you switch the source and see what happens.
When I try to add a Spotify playlist to a Volumio playlist (for alarm purposes), none of the songs show up in the playlist. I can add the songs manually, OR I can start playing the playlist and go to the queue and add them to the Volumio playlist successfully. But there is a break in Spotify playlist to Volumio playlist adds. Low hanging fruit, but definitely a bug!
Adding: Spotify playlists in Volumio only show the first 100 songs and not the full playlist available from the Spotify app.
Raspberry pi 3b+
Volumio 3.301
No DAC (dont kill me pls)
wireless 5ghz connection
Spotify premium
I found some issues when trying to remote control spotify on volumio from another device with the spotify app (android and windows app).
Steps to repoduce:
Start playing a playlist from the spotify plugin
Try skip, play/pause, go back buttons in the remote device app â The song started from the begining every time
Loop and shuffel control buttons dont do anything, if clicked in the remote device app
Adding a song to the queue from the remote device app works for the audio (song starts playing in the plugin as it should), but the interface freezes, it will still show the song that played before the one that was added remotely. That remained true for the following songs as well and could be broken by pressing skip in the plugin overlay.
Apart from these small inconveniences, eveything is working perfectly fine so far.
Moving from Spotify Volumio interface to a network connected Win10 OS Spotify app, once the PC app takes control, the display in Volumio interface of artist and album is incorrect and still displays the last song played from the initial Volumio interface played item. The song and playlist continue to play, but Volumio interface does not display the new media info