I've just posted release 1.1.1 of the Spotify plugin to the repository. This release is focussed on improved playback stablity and wider server support. I encourage everyone to update and provide feedback as I will be focussing support on this version.
Major new features: - reduce loading time for next track when playing a playlist (only of benefit if you leave the playlist to play, can reduce time "connecting" to next track) - attempt to reduce repeated rebuffering events from slow spotify servers - pcm based streaming in addition to flac streaming for servers without flac library (for linux mainly) - ability to disable flac encode via settings, file types if you prefer not to use flac decode on your players - native linux64 bit support - linux glibc 2.3.x support (e.g. CentOS4) - automatic selection of alternative helper binaries (apple, linux) - to detect appropriate architecture/lack of flac library Please post positive feedback here on a per os basis so I can confirm all options are working (there are now 1 x windows, 2 x mac and 4 x linux binaries across all the platforms - so it would be good to confirm they all work!) If you have previously had a version of 1.1.1 installed from my test repository, this is an updated version from the test release. Please uninstall the test version and remove the test repository from your serve configuration. Then install the new 1.1.1 version. Rebuffering Several people have reported this over the last weekend holiday period. This appears to be congestion at the spotify server end. You may not experience the same thing on the Spotify PC based client as it uses peer-peer connections for streaming rather than direct streaming from a Spotify server. This latest version of the plugin tries to reduce the number of times this occurs. It requires the latest version of squeezebox server to help it do this. -- Triode ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Triode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79706 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
