AndrewFG wrote: > > I don't know much about Spotify, so I don't know if there are any UPnP > players that support it natively. But even though I don't have a Spotify > Account, I can tell you that with Whitebear, I was able to browse down > to "Andrew's Music->Add-Ins->Apps->Spotify->I don't have an account"..., > so I am guessing the chances are not bad that if I did have an account, > I should be able to browse further down the tree until I got to a > playable remote stream. And if that would be so, then one could use any > UPnP CP with Whitebear as the server to play Spotify either to a Squeeze > player or indeed to any other UPnP player. (Although not knowing > Spotify, I can't say if there may be authentication issues if > Whitebear/LMS would be the browsing agent, and another device (having a > different IP address) would then try to play the stream. It might depend > on things like NAT...) > The issue with Spotify is that I don't think it expose a http url, it just expose a spotify identity and the player have to understand that and use Spotify API on the player side to get the audio data. Is something like that possible through UPnP or does UPnP require that the server provides a http url to the player for the player to be able to play the music ?
Theoretically it might work with Triode's plugin as I think it expose a http URL, but in practice it doesn't work because I think Triode had to disallow streaming to non Squeezebox hardware because of Spotify licensning restrictions to ensure it's not possible to rip the streams. I could probably try by myself but the issue is that I currently don't have a Windows machine so it requires a bit of work to setup a Windows machine to be able to run Whitebear just to try. If someone else seeing this thread have access to Spotify and are using Whitebear, please let me know if it works or not. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95603 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
