Volumio-2 Spotify Plugin not working - solved

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The Spotify Plugin does not work for me at all.

My System: volumio-2.001-2016-10-15-pi on 8G SD-card, Raspi 1 Bplus, HiFiBerry DAC+

Volumio2 runs fine on IP-Radio as well as files on an USB stick - sound is excellent.

I started the installation (as user volumio; PW: volumio) of the spotify plugin included in the release which it ran w/o problems and ended with the message: “successfully installed”.

I filled in User and PW but the plugin would not signal activation. I ran update w/o success and after that I clicked “uninstall” which showed absolutely no reaction. Reboot etc. did not change things.

Please give me either some advice for troubleshooting or manual removal of this plugin.

Regards
warp2

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You have a Spotify Premium account, correct? Can you post the contents of /var/log/volumio.log.

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hi,
I already noticed and reported that : something is wrong with dependencies. If you enter spopd -c /etc/spopd.conf you get spopd -c /etc/spopd.conf spopd: error while loading shared libraries: libspotify.so.12: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
issue : https://github.com/volumio/volumio-plugins/issues/25
This on rpi B. Seems to work on RPI 2 and >

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you have to do LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib spopd to make it work.

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It seems the service does not start properly

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Thanks to both of you for coming back to help.

I tried to collect some more infos and yes its a premium spotify account.

Confirmed, same here. But

responds

And here is an excerpt from volumio.log

I hope you can read something useful out of this…

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Sorry it’s export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/ spopd

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This code ran w/o any confirmation or error message.

The plugin is still inactive and does not behave different in any way.

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Save config in plugin

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Success, the activation is green now.

You were right, just clicking the save button does not do the job.

I opened the spopd.conf with nano to verify my entries and saved it back.

After that the activation turned green.

b.t.w. The uninstall button did not work - is the script behind it still missing?

Thanks again for your help
warp2

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I got it activated, but when I play music from Spotify, there is no sound on the output. Radio for example works. Any ideas?

My config: RPI3+i2s iqaudio digiamp+, fresh installation of volumio 2.001 with spotify enabled, configured and activated + fix for config save. Tried twice, got the same issue.

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Good news, now it is working. There are two issues:
1.) you have to add the correct LD_LIBRARY_PATH, you can also make by adding into /etc/environment the following, which will make it to set the variable on boot:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/lib/"

2.) After investigating what is going on, i noticed, that servis spopd is reporting wrong username. I change the userneme not to use the “@” symbol. Now it is working.

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It looks like I’m having the same problem as yourself that you have resolved. So from what I gather is I basically copy and paste.

LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/lib/"