I tried installing LibreSpot on my Raspberry Pi running LibreELEC yesterday, but it fails to install.
I try installing using the standard add-on menu in Kodi, nothing special/manual.
But right after selecting 'install' it immediately says "Installation failed". Nothing more.
I tried installing on LibreELEC 11.0.3. Didn't work. Then I updated to LibreELEC 12.0.1. Still does not work.
But it gives no error message. What steps can I take to solve the problem?
Hey there,
any chance on upgrading librespot to a current version? It was working well until recently (sometime this summer). From the logs I got
# tail -f .kodi/temp/kodi.log | grep librespot
debug <general>: Librespot: [2025-10-24T21:41:26Z ERROR librespot_playback::player] Track should be available, but no alternatives found.
debug <general>: Librespot: [2025-10-24T21:41:26Z WARN librespot_playback::player] <spotify:track:4bXkJxL5o6ro4iLmBAl80E> is not available
debug <general>: Librespot: [2025-10-24T21:41:26Z ERROR librespot_playback::player] Skipping to next track, unable to load track <SpotifyId("spotify:track:4bXkJxL5o6ro4iLmBAl80E")>: ()
debug <general>: Librespot: [2025-10-24T21:41:26Z ERROR librespot_playback::player] Track should be available, but no alternatives found.
debug <general>: Librespot: [2025-10-24T21:41:26Z WARN librespot_playback::player] <spotify:track:0WGgup9sYlZNyvvVhuv85q> is not availableWhich lead me to https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot/issues/1527. Trying the workaround with adding 0.0.0.0 apresolve.spotify.com to /storage/.config/hosts.conf did not work for me. I then get similar issues to https://github.com/librespot-org/…ment-3167524954
# tail -f .kodi/temp/kodi.log | grep librespot
debug <CAddonSettings[[email protected]]>: trying to load setting definitions from old format...
debug <general>: Librespot: ['librespot', '--bitrate', '320', '--device-type', 'tv', '--disable-audio-cache', '--disable-credential-cache', '--name', 'Librespot@kodi', '--onevent', 'onevent.py', '--quiet']
debug <general>: Librespot: librespot thread started
debug <general>: Librespot: *** WARNING *** The program 'librespot' uses the Apple Bonjour compatibility layer of Avahi.
debug <general>: Librespot: [2025-10-24T21:47:12Z WARN librespot_core::apresolve] Failed to resolve all access points, using fallbacks
debug <general>: Librespot: [2025-10-24T21:47:12Z WARN librespot_core::apresolve] Resolve access points error: Service unavailable { client error (Connect) }
debug <general>: Librespot: [2025-10-24T21:47:13Z WARN librespot_core::apresolve] Failed to resolve all access points, using fallbacks
debug <general>: Librespot: [2025-10-24T21:47:13Z WARN librespot_core::apresolve] Resolve access points error: Service unavailable { client error (Connect) }
debug <general>: Librespot: [2025-10-24T21:47:13Z WARN librespot_core::cdn_url] Cannot parse CDN URL expiry timestamp 'verify=1761428833-4YPnGCJdOXKmP%2FUOBHla2D%2FXViEQRo103fTpd2SDvzo%3D' from 'https://audio-cf.spotifycdn.com/audio/13dedb7ad34a58590d6ce3e4ea5e8c3992bc3dec?verify=1761428833-4YPnGCJdOXKmP%2FUOBHla2D%2FXViEQRo103fTpd2SDvzo%3D'
debug <general>: Librespot: [2025-10-24T21:47:14Z ERROR librespot_playback::player] Audio Sink Error Connection Refused: <AlsaSink> Device hw:2,0 May be Invalid, Busy, or Already in Use, ALSA function 'snd_pcm_open' failed with error 'No such file or directory (2)'
debug <general>: Librespot: [2025-10-24T21:47:14Z ERROR librespot_playback::player] Audio Sink Error Connection Refused: <AlsaSink> Device hw:2,0 May be Invalid, Busy, or Already in Use, ALSA function 'snd_pcm_open' failed with error 'No such file or directory (2)'
debug <general>: Librespot: [2025-10-24T21:47:14Z ERROR librespot_playback::player] PlayerInternal poll: Invalid PlayerState
debug <general>: Librespot: *** WARNING *** The program 'librespot' uses the Apple Bonjour compatibility layer of Avahi.lutz108 both LE12.2 and LE13 have librespot 0.7.1 which incorporates the fixes you have referenced.
Oh well. I have enabled system Auto Updates, so I was still on LE 12.0.2., where the librespot version was 0.5 - didn't notice there was a 12.2 release. So I updated to 12.2 manually, reinstalled librespot¹ and it's working again. Thanks for the hint! 
¹had to do that because I tried to change the application backend, where the default alsa hw:2.0 did not work. I just was too lazy to type the related output...
hello, i have 3 rpi-s and the official librespot plugin worked just fine some days ago, but now i can't connect from my phone or my windows machine spotify app to neither pi. I just updated to the latest release ( libreelec 12.2.1, Kodi 21.3, librespot 0.7.1)
what should i do?
