Librespot on Kodi 'failed'

Hello,

Using my pi4 with libreelec 12.0.0 on it for the first time after a bit more of one month. Everything worked fine and still works BUT librespot which display a popup "Librespot failed X/5" and then a final one 'Too many failure'.

I do not find any log about this error, nor on Kodi interface, nor on ssh (not really sure about where to search, nothing on ~/.kodi/temp).

The device if not detected when using spoitify from my phone.

No new update. I do not find anyone with the same issue recently anywhere on forums. Any idea ?

Android here, so airplay is not an option.

I tried to reinstall the service: same issue.

After enabling the advanced logs I have something about it in kodi logs if it can help.

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Kodi:~ # grep librespot /storage/.kodi/temp/kodi.log
2024-02-27 18:26:19.549 T:1064 info <general>: CAddonMgr::FindAddons: service.librespot v12.0.0.0 installed
2024-02-27 18:26:20.812 T:1064 debug <general>: LocalizeStrings: loaded 6 strings from file /storage/.kodi/addons/service.librespot/resources/language/English/strings.po
2024-02-27 18:26:23.162 T:1064 debug <general>: CServiceAddonManager: starting service.librespot
2024-02-27 18:26:23.165 T:1106 debug <general>: CPythonInvoker(12, /storage/.kodi/addons/service.librespot/default.py): start processing
2024-02-27 18:26:23.669 T:1106 debug <general>: CPythonInvoker(12, /storage/.kodi/addons/service.librespot/default.py): the source file to load is "/storage/.kodi/addons/service.librespot/default.py"
2024-02-27 18:26:23.669 T:1106 debug <general>: CPythonInvoker(12): /storage/.kodi/addons/service.librespot
2024-02-27 18:26:23.669 T:1106 debug <general>: CPythonInvoker(12, /storage/.kodi/addons/service.librespot/default.py): entering source directory /storage/.kodi/addons/service.librespot
2024-02-27 18:26:23.669 T:1106 debug <general>: CPythonInvoker(12, /storage/.kodi/addons/service.librespot/default.py): instantiating addon using automatically obtained id of "service.librespot" dependent on version 3.0.0 of the xbmc.python api
2024-08-11 17:49:00.468 T:1106 debug <CAddonSettings[0@service.librespot]>: trying to load setting definitions from old format...
2024-08-11 17:49:01.308 T:1106 debug <general>: Librespot: pactl load-module ('module-null-sink', 'sink_name=librespot'): 14
2024-08-11 17:49:01.340 T:1106 debug <general>: Librespot: pactl load-module ('module-rtp-send', 'destination_ip=127.0.0.1', 'inhibit_auto_suspend=always', 'port=24642', 'source=librespot.monitor'): 15
2024-08-11 17:49:01.361 T:1106 debug <general>: Librespot: pactl suspend-sink ('librespot', '1'):
2024-08-11 17:49:01.361 T:1106 debug <general>: Librespot: ['librespot', '--bitrate', '320', '--device-type', 'tv', '--disable-audio-cache', '--disable-credential-cache', '--name', 'Librespot@Kodi', '--onevent', 'onevent.py', '--quiet']
2024-08-11 17:49:01.365 T:1131 debug <general>: Librespot: librespot thread started
2024-08-11 17:49:01.596 T:1131 debug <general>: Librespot: *** WARNING *** The program 'librespot' uses the Apple Bonjour compatibility layer of Avahi.
2024-08-11 17:49:01.725 T:1131 debug <general>: Librespot: [2024-08-11T15:49:01Z WARN librespot] Could not initialise discovery: Service unavailable { DNS-SD Error: Unknown }
2024-08-11 17:49:01.725 T:1131 debug <general>: Librespot: [2024-08-11T15:49:01Z ERROR librespot] Discovery is unavailable and no credentials provided. Authentication is not possible.
2024-08-11 17:49:01.756 T:1131 debug <general>: Librespot: pactl suspend-sink ('librespot', '1'):
2024-08-11 17:49:01.787 T:1131 debug <general>: Librespot: *** WARNING *** The program 'librespot' uses the Apple Bonjour compatibility layer of Avahi.
2024-08-11 17:49:01.857 T:1131 debug <general>: Librespot: [2024-08-11T15:49:01Z WARN librespot] Could not initialise discovery: Service unavailable { DNS-SD Error: Unknown }
2024-08-11 17:49:01.858 T:1131 debug <general>: Librespot: [2024-08-11T15:49:01Z ERROR librespot] Discovery is unavailable and no credentials provided. Authentication is not possible.
2024-08-11 17:49:01.898 T:1131 debug <general>: Librespot: pactl suspend-sink ('librespot', '1'):
2024-08-11 17:49:01.930 T:1131 debug <general>: Librespot: *** WARNING *** The program 'librespot' uses the Apple Bonjour compatibility layer of Avahi.
2024-08-11 17:49:01.983 T:1131 debug <general>: Librespot: [2024-08-11T15:49:01Z WARN librespot] Could not initialise discovery: Service unavailable { DNS-SD Error: Unknown }
2024-08-11 17:49:01.983 T:1131 debug <general>: Librespot: [2024-08-11T15:49:01Z ERROR librespot] Discovery is unavailable and no credentials provided. Authentication is not possible.
2024-08-11 17:49:02.017 T:1131 debug <general>: Librespot: pactl suspend-sink ('librespot', '1'):
2024-08-11 17:49:02.039 T:1131 debug <general>: Librespot: *** WARNING *** The program 'librespot' uses the Apple Bonjour compatibility layer of Avahi.
2024-08-11 17:49:02.106 T:1131 debug <general>: Librespot: [2024-08-11T15:49:02Z WARN librespot] Could not initialise discovery: Service unavailable { DNS-SD Error: Unknown }
2024-08-11 17:49:02.106 T:1131 debug <general>: Librespot: [2024-08-11T15:49:02Z ERROR librespot] Discovery is unavailable and no credentials provided. Authentication is not possible.
2024-08-11 17:49:02.128 T:1131 debug <general>: Librespot: pactl suspend-sink ('librespot', '1'):
2024-08-11 17:49:02.147 T:1131 debug <general>: Librespot: *** WARNING *** The program 'librespot' uses the Apple Bonjour compatibility layer of Avahi.
2024-08-11 17:49:02.264 T:1131 debug <general>: Librespot: [2024-08-11T15:49:02Z WARN librespot] Could not initialise discovery: Service unavailable { DNS-SD Error: Unknown }
2024-08-11 17:49:02.264 T:1131 debug <general>: Librespot: [2024-08-11T15:49:02Z ERROR librespot] Discovery is unavailable and no credentials provided. Authentication is not possible.
2024-08-11 17:49:02.294 T:1131 debug <general>: Librespot: pactl suspend-sink ('librespot', '1'):
2024-08-11 17:49:02.294 T:1131 debug <general>: Librespot: librespot thread stopped

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Well, it helped me. Knowing the issue was with the zeroconf discovery I entered my credentials in the user options field and it now work perfectly.

If anyone has the same issue the syntax to put in the user option field is

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-O -u [username] -p [password]

The only thing that annoys me is my credentials are in plain text in the conf interface of Kodi, but well I'll bear with it.

Thank for the help anyways