LibreSpot Issue After Reinstallation - No Sound or Playback Control

__dimitris__ · August 11, 2025 at 7:15 AM

Hello,

I recently reinstalled LibreELEC on my Raspberry Pi 4. Before this reinstall, everything was working fine with LibreSpot, but now I am encountering an issue. When I connect my device to LibreSpot on the Raspberry Pi, it connects successfully, but that's where the problem starts.

Here are the symptoms:

No sound is heard.

There is no notification on the TV showing that a song is playing.

The Play and Pause buttons do not work.

Nothing else happens after connecting to LibreSpot.

I’m not sure what to do next or how to troubleshoot this. I have already tried restarting the system, but the issue persists.

Has anyone encountered something similar or has any suggestions for troubleshooting?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance!

solitude · August 11, 2025 at 8:07 AM

I also had this issue. There is actually a fix for this.

Option 1:

1. Connect through as ssh as root.

2. copy paste the following. And press enter

echo -e "OLD:\n----"; cat /storage/.config/hosts.conf; sudo bash -c 'echo -e "0.0.0.0\t\tapresolve.spotify.com" >> /storage/.config/hosts.conf'; echo -e "----\nNEW:\n----"; cat /storage/.config/hosts.conf

3. Reboot

Option 2:

1. Connect through ssh as root

2. Edit the host file /storage/.config/hosts.conf

add the following entry

0.0.0.0 apresolve.spotify.com
towards the end of the file

3. Reboot

solitude · August 11, 2025 at 9:46 AM Best Answer

Option 3:

1. Connect through ssh as root

2. Copy paste the following and press enter.

echo '0.0.0.0 apresolve.spotify.com' | tee -a /storage/.config/hosts.conf

3. Reboot

Steef76 · August 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM

I had the same issue.

Tried option 3,

And it is working flawless again!

Thanks @solitide

__dimitris__ · November 9, 2025 at 12:32 PM

Hello everyone,

I recently installed LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi 5 and noticed that LibreSpot no longer works after the latest LibreELEC update.

It connects from the Spotify app on my phone, but it becomes completely unresponsive. Nothing plays — no sound output, no visual feedback on screen — and there are no errors displayed. It simply connects and then does nothing.

I had the same issue some time ago, and it seems to have returned with the recent update.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Is this a known issue, or is there a workaround?

Thank you in advance for any help!

lyr7d1h · December 26, 2025 at 11:46 AM

Hello. I'm still having the same issues even with the fix of adding `'0.0.0.0 apresolve.spotify.com`' to hosts.conf. When running 'librespot' normally on the device I get the following logs.

Code

LibreELEC:~ # librespot
[2025-12-26T11:42:29Z INFO  librespot] librespot 0.5.0-dev 3327400 (Built on 2024-08-12, Build ID: G2GeflqG, Profile: release)
*** WARNING *** The program 'librespot' uses the Apple Bonjour compatibility layer of Avahi.
*** WARNING *** Please fix your application to use the native API of Avahi!
*** WARNING *** For more information see <http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/avahi-compat.html>
[2025-12-26T11:42:29Z INFO  librespot_playback::mixer::softmixer] Mixing with softvol and volume control: Log(60.0)
[2025-12-26T11:42:29Z INFO  librespot_playback::convert] Converting with ditherer: tpdf
[2025-12-26T11:42:29Z INFO  librespot_playback::audio_backend::alsa] Using AlsaSink with format: S16
[2025-12-26T11:42:35Z WARN  librespot_core::apresolve] Failed to resolve all access points, using fallbacks
[2025-12-26T11:42:35Z WARN  librespot_core::apresolve] Resolve access points error: Service unavailable { client error (Connect) }
[2025-12-26T11:42:35Z INFO  librespot_core::session] Connecting to AP "ap.spotify.com:443"
[2025-12-26T11:42:35Z INFO  librespot_core::session] Authenticated as "-" !
[2025-12-26T11:42:35Z INFO  librespot_core::session] Country: "NL"
[2025-12-26T11:42:35Z WARN  librespot_core::apresolve] Failed to resolve all access points, using fallbacks
[2025-12-26T11:42:35Z WARN  librespot_core::apresolve] Resolve access points error: Service unavailable { client error (Connect) }
[2025-12-26T11:42:35Z WARN  librespot_core::apresolve] Failed to resolve all access points, using fallbacks
[2025-12-26T11:42:35Z WARN  librespot_core::apresolve] Resolve access points error: Service unavailable { client error (Connect) }
[2025-12-26T11:42:35Z INFO  librespot_core::spclient] Resolved "spclient.wg.spotify.com:443" as spclient access point
[2025-12-26T11:42:35Z ERROR librespot_playback::player] Unable to load audio item: Error { kind: Unavailable, error: "No access point available for endpoint spclient" }
[2025-12-26T11:42:35Z ERROR librespot_playback::player] Skipping to next track, unable to load track <SpotifyId("spotify:track:03p1bgcOw398mneQ9H8891")>: ()
[2025-12-26T11:42:35Z ERROR librespot_core::mercury] error 403 for uri hm://keymaster/token/authenticated?scope=playlist-read&client_id=65b708073fc0480ea92a077233ca87bd&device_id=ce8d71004f9597141d4b5940bd1bb2dc52a35dae
[2025-12-26T11:42:35Z ERROR librespot_connect::spirc] ContextError: Error { kind: Unavailable, error: Response(MercuryResponse { uri: "hm://keymaster/token/authenticated?scope=playlist-read&client_id=65b708073fc0480ea92a077233ca87bd&device_id=ce8d71004f9597141d4b5940bd1bb2dc52a35dae", status_code: 403, payload: [[123, 34, 99, 111, 100, 101, 34, 58, 52, 44, 34, 101, 114, 114, 111, 114, 68, 101, 115, 99, 114, 105, 112, 116, 105, 111, 110, 34, 58, 34, 73, 110, 118, 97, 108, 105, 100, 32, 114, 101, 113, 117, 101, 115, 116, 34, 125]] }) }
[2025-12-26T11:42:35Z ERROR librespot_core::mercury] error 403 for uri hm://keymaster/token/authenticated?scope=playlist-read&client_id=65b708073fc0480ea92a077233ca87bd&device_id=ce8d71004f9597141d4b5940bd1bb2dc52a35dae
[2025-12-26T11:42:35Z ERROR librespot_playback::player] Unable to load audio item: Error { kind: Unavailable, error: Response(MercuryResponse { uri: "hm://keymaster/token/authenticated?scope=playlist-read&client_id=65b708073fc0480ea92a077233ca87bd&device_id=ce8d71004f9597141d4b5940bd1bb2dc52a35dae", status_code: 403, payload: [[123, 34, 99, 111, 100, 101, 34, 58, 52, 44, 34, 101, 114, 114, 111, 114, 68, 101, 115, 99, 114, 105, 112, 116, 105, 111, 110, 34, 58, 34, 73, 110, 118, 97, 108, 105, 100, 32, 114, 101, 113, 117, 101, 115, 116, 34, 125]] }) }

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What could be another fix? I noticed that librespot is also fairly old

Code

LibreELEC:~ # librespot --version
librespot 0.5.0-dev 3327400 (Built on 2024-08-12, Build ID: G2GeflqG, Profile: release)

Latest release is 0.7.0. Why isn't this upgraded?

**chewitt** · December 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM

Quote from lyr7d1h

Latest release is 0.7.0. Why isn't this upgraded?

On which LE version?