You can't stream a free spotify account on your SBR, must be a premium user.
Chad On Saturday, July 30, 2011, ejnj < ejnj.4xpaxb1312050...@no-mx.forums.slimdevices.com> wrote: > > I followed the directions (see below) to stream my new free Spotify > account to my Squeezebox. I am not having success following this last > part of these instructions- my radio cant find it. > > ".....Now, you just need to tune in your stream from your Squeeze > Centre web control panel, in effect creating the bridge between Squeeze > Centre and Spotify. > Do this by entering your Squeeze Centre address into the address bar > (mine is http://10.2.1.81:9000/) > Locate Internet Radio / Tune In URL on the web interface and enter the > address of the PC running Spotify. In my case it was > http://10.2.1.100:8124""; > > > Can someone break down for me how to find my computer IP (VIA the > Squeezebox)? Clearly I am doing something wrong. > **************************************************************** > FULL INSTRUCTIONS: > > Playing Spotify through Squeezebox > > Posted in Off Topic about 1 years ago by Nick Kewney - Comments (0) > > Spotify is a peer-to-peer music streaming allowing users to listen to > specific tracks or albums on-demand. > > Despite launching clients for Android, Symbian and iPhone OS, an > officially supported Squeezebox Server (formerely SqueezeCentre) client > for Spotify hasn’t yet been unveiled. Until somebody gets their Perl > boots on and creates one, I’ve created a short tutorial demonstrating > how to stream audio from Spotify on your PC to your Squeezeboxes. It > works by utilising DirectSound Bridge, a small wrapper which exposes > the playing stream as an MP3, which can be received by your > Squeezebox. > > It really is pretty simple. To start, you’ll need to download two files > to your PC: > > * The Lame MP3 Encoder > * DirectSound Bridge > > Next, you'll need to: > > 1. Close the Spotify application if it is currently running. On > Windows 7, you might have to launch the Task Manager and end the > process. > 2. Open the Lame MP3 Encoder archive you just downloaded and locate > the file “lame_enc.dll” and copy it to the Spotify directory on your > local PC (e.g. C:\Program Files\Spotify) > 3. Open the DSBridge archive and copy “DSound.dll” and > “DSBridge.ini” to your the same folder. > > Open Spotify as normal and start a track playing. It’s best you turn > the volume down as your PC will only be used as a controller for > streaming to your Squeezeboxes. You might notice a new icon in your > system tray. It’ll be blue when idle and green when streaming music. > > You’re done. Now, you just need to tune in your stream from your > Squeeze Centre web control panel, in effect creating the bridge between > Squeeze Centre and Spotify. > > Do this by entering your Squeeze Centre address into the address bar > (mine is http://10.2.1.81:9000/) > > Locate Internet Radio / Tune In URL on the web interface and enter the > address of the PC running Spotify. In my case it was > http://10.2.1.100:8124 > > Tip: If you don’t know the address, go to your PC and press WINDOWS+R, > type CMD and enter which will display a command prompt window. Now > enter ipconfig and press enter again. The IP address will be displayed. > > > -- > ejnj > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ejnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35443 > View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89212 > >
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