Hello,
Is it possible there’s another issue with this plugin that could be making Volumio unresponsive or extremely sluggish? Ever since the issues reported here (which I also encountered); I’ve also run into the following:
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Spotify plugin interferes with ALSA, even when not in use: I was trying to use Tidal Connect and ran into the red “unable to use ALSA device” error. When I tried resetting the player by switching output device from a USB or I2S DAC to, say, headphones or HDMI out; I’d get a red “Spotify: cannot use ALSA device” error. Switching back to the I2S or USB dac would bring up the error again, implying some Spotify plugin process was running in the background. I had to uninstall the plugin, restart Volumio, and reinstall the plugin to fix it
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Ever since these issues started, I’ve also experienced very slow operation times on one RPi4B 8gb device. So much that I thought my SD card was failing, so I bought a new, 128gb fast SD card and reinstalled everything. Operation was fine; until I installed the Spotify plugin (4.1.1 this time), and the device started to slow down again. An uninstall of the plugin and system restart made it responsive again. For reference, this system is running the following additional plugins: System Information, Touch Display, and FusionDSP. It is also using an Innomaker Dac Pro and an official RPi 7" touch display.
Any ideas as to what could be happening? @volumio @Marco_Melziade