The connect plugin only works when you start playing on the volumio device first… so doesn’t work for me. I.e. if I open spotify on phone or computer, the volumio device is not listed. Once I started playing on the volumio device, I could then see it on the apps (phone or PC) and start using the spotify app as a remote control.
In any case, the thing that annoys me about the response from Volumio is this.
I totally understand that I’m currently using a free version, I am also aware that many products are built by communities. E.g. Kodi is 100% community and free.
But that’s not really Volumio. You try, like almost every business model out there, to get a large market share via free customers, and then upsell them to a paid premium plan.
Therefore free customers are not actually free. If you upsell 1 in 100, then the other 99 were actually necessary to get the 1…
I was drawn to this product over others due in many respects to the slick looking website, modern interface, and good development with integrations.
However now, even if I was a premium customer, I lose access to Spotify because a package that was deprecated 5 years ago no longer works?
And volumio first response is that no free developer has “found the time” to fix this…
I would think that Spotify integration would be part of the core development, and if that resulted in it becoming premium only, which I would understand, then then should be advertised clearly on the site.
However for now it all feels like false advertising AND volumio want community developers to improve their revenue generating product for free!
I was in proof of concept mode with this, and there were already issues that stopped me going premium, however there’s now this one, and it’s a blocker for me if volumio don’t take ownership for resolving…