Spotify plugin in volumio 2.368

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I have two volumio installations (both on Raspberry Pi 3). One is version 2.348, the other is 2.368. I don’t get the Spotify plugin working on the latter. I have the plugin activated and entered the same user/password as I use in my first volumio box. The syslog confirms that the access is granted:

2018-03-25T21:57:16.486Z - info: Spotify access token expires at 1522018636246
2018-03-25T21:57:16.489Z - info: Spotify access token is BQA4-rnNFC-

But there is no Spotify on the Browse page.

I did the installation twice and rebooted the Raspberry Pi several times. I posted this question already two weeks ago on a eight page long thread regarding Spotify but none of the suggestions provided there (works with premium account only, need to activate plugin) solves my issue.

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In the last two weeks I’ve done a number of new installations of Volumio on 1) an old Pi B+, 2) a Pi 3 and 3) a new Pi 3 B+ and they are all working great. Is it possible you could upgrade to the latest supported release (2.378) and see if that works for you? For many people with Spotify issues the problem is often an issue with the SPOP daemon starting properly.

Before the Spotify access token grant in the Volumio log file can you search for lines with “spop”. You should see a line like this:

2018-03-21T00:49:19.936Z - info: SpopD Daemon Started

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I had a similar problem the last week.
Installed new, activate/deactivate the plugin etc.

In the log I see something like: user/password is wrong. But I found no error.

I use a Facebook account to login in Spotify.

At the Spotify Webpage I looked in my account settings and found there a option to set a different password for devices.

Now I can login with my Spotify user number and a different password.

It works fine now.

Maybe you have the same problem with username/password.

4

I updated to version 2.378 and had the same problem still. I went to the plugin settings page and re-entered my username and password again and now it’s working! Perhaps, I had a space character at the end of user name/password? I have to say that the log is not really helpful here. These are the entries before I re-entered my credentials:

2018-03-26T19:18:35.364Z - info: Spotify access token expires at 1522095515161
2018-03-26T19:18:35.368Z - info: Spotify access token is BQAAUV...
2018-03-26T19:18:35.379Z - info: Spotify credentials grant success

And these are the log entries after I re-entered my credentials:

2018-03-26T19:24:37.176Z - info: Spotify access token expires at 1522095876994
2018-03-26T19:24:37.177Z - info: Spotify access token is BQC-...
2018-03-26T19:24:37.177Z - info: Spotify credentials grant success

As you see it says “grant success” in both cases…

Thanks for your help though. I’m glad it’s working now.

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You still have a Facebook account? :astonished:
Anyway, your suggestion caused me to re-enter my username/password, which solved the problem even when I don’t see exactly why.