Michael, I still don't see spotty when I add it to the url to the respository list. any ideas???
Brooks mherger wrote: > Ok, you're curious. But are you willing to fail? If not: don't continue > :-) > > Here's Spotty, my not fully fleshed out potential next generation > Spotify implementation for Squeezebox. In its current form it's a > protocol handler only. What does that mean? You're going to continue to > use the Spotify app provided by mysb.com, but the plugin will take care > of playing back content to your devices. As such it replaces my Spotify > Protocol Handler plugin, which is based on the long deprecated > libspotify. > > Spotty is using the open-source librespot library > (https://github.com/plietar/librespot). That library is implemented in a > programming language I didn't even know before (Rust). So please prepare > for failure and longish bugfix cycles :-). If you're ready to take the > risk, here you go: > > > > > - Add http://www.herger.net/slim-plugins/test.xml to the plugins > repository list - Install Spotty - Uninstall the Spotify Protocol Handler and Triode's Spotify > plugins (if installed) - Restart LMS - Go to Settings/Advanced/Spotty and follow the instructions - Use Spotify on SB as before. > > > > > On platforms other than Windows you should be able to authorize the > plugin using your mobile or desktop Spotify application. On Windows > unfortunately you'll have to enter username/password (which are NOT > stored in LMS). > > My kids have been using this plugin for a few weeks now, for hours a > day. It sometimes takes a tad longer to buffer the first track. But > after that playback seems to be pretty gapless. It does seeking. > Doesn't crash when skipping tracks. Isn't limited to a single device. > Let's keep fingers crossed it continues to work post Fall '17... > > Technically this implementation follows a pretty different approach > than the old implementations. Rather than having a daemon run in the > background, Spotty is running the helper app for every track. It uses > the transcoding framework to pipe the audio data back in to LMS, very > much like any file format would do which required transcoding. By > default Spotty would stream audio as FLAC. But this can be changed in > the file formats settings (PCM or mp3). My office LMS is running on a > piCorePlayer based Pi3 installation. CPU load is well below 10% during > playback. > > There are binaries for MacOS, Windows (needs MS VC 2015 runtime), and > some Linux flavors (i686, x86_64, ARM HF & SF). I would be surprised > if they worked all, though :-/. In particular the arm build has seen > little to no testing. It fails on piCorePlayer running on a Pi B, but > does work on the same hardware using Raspbian. It fails on my ReadyNAS > Duo v2 lack of some dependencies. The list continues... Please report > back your "uname -a" if you fail on Linux. Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bb1959's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=24793 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107418 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
