Librespot Add-on

Quote from awiouy

avahi is not routed, as mentioned here: linux - Could I use avahi to publish service across subnetworks? - Stack Overflow

Note that this is an answer from 2014.

I'm using avahi with this snippet in the config file:

[reflector]
enable-reflector=yes

And it works quite well for me, at least for Kore.

Quote from xav

TL;DR: discovery mode doesn't work.

Long answer: Because my LibreElec box is on a wired network which is routed to the Wi-Fi network, but apparently this is not sufficient for LibreSpot. I even configured Avahi in router mode on the router (necessary for Kore to find Kodi) but that's not enough for Spotify's discovery mode (I haven't investigated which kind of protocol it speaks).

As far as I am aware, Spotify Connect uses Bonjour for device discovery - I would have thought that should be covered by the Avahi settings, unless you have any other options.

Hi awiouy,

first of all thank you for this awesome addon, which make a great feature possible on my TV Box, that i converted from an Android to an libreelec Box.

I had a problem, that the addon didnt work on startup (my phone didnt find the other device). I had to go to addons, librespot, configuration and just press ok, then it worked . Now I added sleep 5 in the start configuration file and i can find libreelec now right after boot, but it didnt play sound till i changed the output device to Kodi. Now it get find on boot and plays the music. Problem is, that it has a huge delay (3-4sec) after an input has made. Is there any way to fix this, so it will be perfect?

Maybe it would be helpful, if there would be a small tutorial on the first post with an howto and what is needed for it to get it work (which services should be enabled).

Thank you again for your awesome addon, and support

Quote from awiouy

Why use login/password? Use discovery mode.

If you want to use Kodi volume, use Kodi mode (set mode in addon settings)

The name of the currently playing song is displayed on the screen in both modes, not in OSD though.

Would it possible to integrate such support? So lyrics and last.fm addon will work with librespot?

Also even when choosing Kodi as output device, the spectrum analyser/equilizer will not work

Thx for this awesome addon

Hi

I´m using the librespot addon on my Mecool M8s pro device. It is running fine.

But my backup program (standard XBMC Backup) stucks at addons/service.librespot/lib

Any hints to solve the problem ?

Ok. I asked there - but I guess its more a problem from the addon.

I had the same problem on 2 different devices.

Then i tried to disable librespot addon in the device settings.

The result was a complete frozen device. Had to pull out the power switch.

Powered up the device again.

Now the addon is shown as disabled.

Backup is running now without problems.

And I have seen in postings - I´m not alone with that problem.

I am only a user. But I think no addon should crash kodi.

I guess it would be better if you will do a developer talk to robweber..

sended logfile adress via PM

I hope it may help

edit : changed my backup / restore strategy and used in build libreelec backup instead of Kodi backup addon.

This one worked without problems

Looks like the Kodi backup addon has some problems with backing up files with enabled services

I used the discontinued Spotify web connect add-on before switching over to this, it's works like a charm

However, in the old web connect, I could use analog out and hdmi audio independently. If Spotify is playing using my speakers connected to analog and I start a video, the music pauses even though Kodi is set to use hdmi.

This is annoying, as I usually would for example watch some football with low volume on the TV while listening to music on the speakers..

Pity. Is this the latest up 2 date add-on source code? GitHub - awiouy/service.librespot: Spotify Connect Addon for LibreELEC

sshanemeagher's redirect link is incorrect (GitHub - shanemeagher/service.librespot: Spotify Connect Addon for LibreELEC).

Thanks I've added "Keep spotify playing" setting, that does not stop Spotify when playing a video:

Keep spotify playing setting added · siz-/LibreELEC.tv@543d652 · GitHub

(don't know why it doesn't just show line changes, maybe due to the fact I used the upload tool on the site)

Added an extra check to not restart the service when stopping a video, as "stop" would stop both due to the above implementation.

I can submit a pull request if you deem the setting as useful, I use it a lot myself

Hey,

I'm running Librespot Kodi on my Raspberry Pi 3B and a month ago everything worked perfectly, showing up as a Spotify Connect device on all my devices on boot.

Now it doesn't show up on my phone anymore. On my PC it shows up but when I try to connect to it, it simply fails without an error.

I am very new to all this stuff so if you'd like me to send any logs I would love some instructions on how to! I do know how to access the terminal with PuTTY. My experience with Linux-based OS's is pretty much 0. Heheh.

Thanks for your time!

Hi,

i'm using the 8.2.1 version of Libreelec and the latest version of the librespot addon on an Intel NUC. After sleep wakeup, or restart of the NUC the spotify connect client doesn't show up in Spotify clients. if i would like to disable the addon in the addon manager the whole interface freezes, i have to restart the nuc from ssh. The i can enable it , and it is working fine until i sleep-week, sthutdown-wakeup the LE.

I've attached the librespot addon's log.

Would it be possible to integrate a control like this?

GitHub - NicolasHaeffner/plugin.audio.connectcontrol

[WIP] [Alpha release] ConnectControl for Spotify - Addon Development - Kodinerds.net - Deutschsprachiges Forum zum Kodi Entertainment Center

This would be a great addition to the add-on I think!