mherger wrote: 
> I'm happy to announce Spotty, my next generation Spotify implementation
> for Squeezebox. Spotty has no dependency on mysqueezebox.com, nor player
> firmware, and supports all types of players. It is using the open-source
> librespot library (https://github.com/plietar/librespot) instead of the
> soon to be defunct libspotify. 
> 
> Once you've installed Spotty from the plugins repository, you can safely
> un-install all other Spotify related plugins (official plugin, Triode's
> 3rd party plugin, Spotify Protocol Handler), as well as remove the
> Spotify app from your mysqueezebox.com account. Then go to
> Settings/Advanced/Spotty and follow the instructions.
> 
> 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).
> 
> Spotty should run on MacOS, Windows (needs MS VC 2015 runtime!), and
> many Linux flavors (i686, x86_64, ARM HF & SF). But make sure you have
> the IO::Socket::SSL module installed in your environment. Spotty would
> tell you if you didn't. 
> 
> Spotty is known to run perfectly well on eg. Raspberry Pi 2/3.
> Unfortunately many NAS devices using ARMEL CPUs won't be supported (eg.
> ReadyNAS Duo/NX v2, some of the cheaper Synology devices). I'm currently
> running it on a piCorePlayer setup on Pi3, connected to the
> aforementioned ReadyNAS Duo v2 - and it's so much more faster than the
> NAS alone, it's worth it :-).
> 
> Please note that to take full advantage of Spotty, you should install
> the latest LMS 7.9.1 nightly build. There is an issue seeking within a
> track with older builds. Other than that LMS 7.7.x should be good
> enough.
> 
> Have fun!

How does it differ from other Spotify plug ins? PS. Have just received
an email from Spotify informing me that the 'official' Spotify plugin
will be withdrawn and no longer supported. Anyone know about this?


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