Librespot Add-on

Quote from wilda23

awiouy latest preview didn't work as well – rpi spotify server was visible but as soon as i tried to connect to it it crashed

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Jul 17 21:05:02 LibreELEC systemd[1]: Started librespot.
Jul 17 21:05:03 LibreELEC sh[777]: INFO:librespot: librespot fd02204 (2017-07-15). Built on 2017-07-17.
Jul 17 21:05:03 LibreELEC sh[777]: *** WARNING *** The program 'librespot' uses the Apple Bonjour compatibility layer of Avahi.
Jul 17 21:05:03 LibreELEC librespot[791]: *** WARNING *** The program 'librespot' uses the Apple Bonjour compatibility layer of Avahi.
Jul 17 21:05:03 LibreELEC sh[777]: *** WARNING *** Please fix your application to use the native API of Avahi!
Jul 17 21:05:03 LibreELEC sh[777]: *** WARNING *** For more information see <http://0pointer.de/avahi-compat?s=libdns_sd&e=librespot>
Jul 17 21:05:03 LibreELEC librespot[791]: *** WARNING *** Please fix your application to use the native API of Avahi!
Jul 17 21:05:03 LibreELEC librespot[791]: *** WARNING *** For more information see <http://0pointer.de/avahi-compat?s=libdns_sd&e=librespot>
Jul 17 21:05:03 LibreELEC sh[777]: INFO:librespot::session: Connecting to AP "gew1-accesspoint-b-xrr6.ap.spotify.com:4070"
Jul 17 21:05:03 LibreELEC sh[777]: INFO:librespot::session: Authenticated as "11164585087" !
Jul 17 21:05:03 LibreELEC sh[777]: INFO:librespot::session: Country: "CZ"
Jul 17 21:07:08 LibreELEC systemd[1]: Stopping librespot...
Jul 17 21:07:08 LibreELEC systemd[1]: Stopped librespot.

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That log shows nothing abnormal.

Was Kodi playing something back, as this stops the librespot service.

Quote from wilda23

kodi wasn't playing anything - i just booted up my rpi and as soon as it was ready i tried to connect and librespot service crashed

There was a regression in revision 104, which is fixed in revision 105, which should be available very soon.

Please skip revision 104.

Apologies for the inconvience.

Quote from Camella

8.1.105 has some problems to start on my generic 8.0.2

For example after playing a video it takes a few minutes before Librespot works again

Somtimes I even need to reboot

I noticed 2 different zipfiles for this (rpi and generic)

Does it take the generic by default from the repository or is it worth it to play with these zipfiles ?

Sorry to read this... Reconnection is snappy here on my RPi3.

Could you send me a log (journalctl -u service.librespot) so that I can assess what is happening.

Thank you in advance.

Here is a new preview (105d).

Please test.

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Preview for Generic

Preview for RPi2

Quote from Camella

I start LibreElec and wait half a minute or so

Then I had to try to connect a couple of times before it started playing

Stopped and played a video

Waited half a minute or so

Then I had to try to connect a couple of times before it started playing

No idea how to post a log so I pasted it as a spoiler

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Jul 22 16:58:55 AsRock systemd[1]: Started librespot.

Jul 22 16:59:02 AsRock sh[348]: INFO:librespot: librespot 19662a5 (2017-07-19). Built on 2017-07-19. Build ID: sPpPYvJ7

Jul 22 16:59:02 AsRock sh[348]: *** WARNING *** The program 'librespot' uses the Apple Bonjour compatibility layer of Avahi.

Jul 22 16:59:02 AsRock sh[348]: *** WARNING *** Please fix your application to use the native API of Avahi!

Jul 22 16:59:02 AsRock sh[348]: *** WARNING *** For more information see <avahi-compat?s=libdns_sd&e=librespot>

Jul 22 16:59:02 AsRock librespot[761]: *** WARNING *** The program 'librespot' uses the Apple Bonjour compatibility layer of Avahi.

Jul 22 16:59:02 AsRock librespot[761]: *** WARNING *** Please fix your application to use the native API of Avahi!

Jul 22 16:59:02 AsRock librespot[761]: *** WARNING *** For more information see <avahi-compat?s=libdns_sd&e=librespot>

Jul 22 16:59:08 AsRock sh[348]: INFO:librespot::session: Connecting to AP "gew1-accesspoint-b-tfr7.ap.spotify.com:4070"

Jul 22 16:59:14 AsRock sh[348]: INFO:librespot::session: Authenticated as "woodskiz" !

Jul 22 16:59:14 AsRock sh[348]: INFO:librespot::audio_backend::alsa: Using alsa sink

Jul 22 16:59:14 AsRock sh[348]: INFO:librespot::session: Country: "NL"

Jul 22 16:59:35 AsRock sh[348]: INFO:librespot::player: Loading track "Emergency on Planet Earth - Remastered"

Jul 22 16:59:39 AsRock sh[348]: INFO:librespot::player: Track "Emergency on Planet Earth - Remastered" loaded

Jul 22 16:59:46 AsRock sh[348]: INFO:librespot::player: Loading track "Emergency on Planet Earth - Remastered"

Jul 22 16:59:49 AsRock sh[348]: INFO:librespot::player: Track "Emergency on Planet Earth - Remastered" loaded

Jul 22 16:59:49 AsRock sh[348]: INFO:librespot::player: onstart 1

Jul 22 16:59:54 AsRock sh[348]: INFO:librespot::player: onstop 4

Jul 22 17:00:01 AsRock sh[348]: INFO:librespot::player: onstart 2

Jul 22 17:00:04 AsRock sh[348]: INFO:librespot::player: onstop 5

Jul 22 17:00:08 AsRock sh[348]: INFO:librespot::player: Loading track "Emergency on Planet Earth - Remastered"

Jul 22 17:00:11 AsRock sh[348]: INFO:librespot::player: Track "Emergency on Planet Earth - Remastered" loaded

Jul 22 17:00:11 AsRock sh[348]: INFO:librespot::player: onstart 1

Jul 22 17:00:20 AsRock sh[348]: INFO:librespot::player: onstop 4

Jul 22 17:00:35 AsRock systemd[1]: Stopping librespot...

Jul 22 17:00:35 AsRock pactl[831]: Failure: No such entity

Jul 22 17:00:35 AsRock systemd[1]: service.librespot.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1

Jul 22 17:00:35 AsRock systemd[1]: Stopped librespot.

Jul 22 17:00:35 AsRock systemd[1]: service.librespot.service: Unit entered failed state.

Jul 22 17:00:35 AsRock systemd[1]: service.librespot.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Jul 22 17:00:42 AsRock systemd[1]: Started librespot.

Jul 22 17:00:49 AsRock sh[839]: INFO:librespot: librespot 19662a5 (2017-07-19). Built on 2017-07-19. Build ID: sPpPYvJ7

Jul 22 17:00:49 AsRock sh[839]: *** WARNING *** The program 'librespot' uses the Apple Bonjour compatibility layer of Avahi.

Jul 22 17:00:49 AsRock sh[839]: *** WARNING *** Please fix your application to use the native API of Avahi!

Jul 22 17:00:49 AsRock sh[839]: *** WARNING *** For more information see <avahi-compat?s=libdns_sd&e=librespot>

Jul 22 17:00:49 AsRock librespot[850]: *** WARNING *** The program 'librespot' uses the Apple Bonjour compatibility layer of Avahi.

Jul 22 17:00:49 AsRock librespot[850]: *** WARNING *** Please fix your application to use the native API of Avahi!

Jul 22 17:00:49 AsRock librespot[850]: *** WARNING *** For more information see <avahi-compat?s=libdns_sd&e=librespot>

Jul 22 17:00:55 AsRock sh[839]: INFO:librespot::session: Connecting to AP "gew1-accesspoint-b-drgr.ap.spotify.com:4070"

Jul 22 17:01:01 AsRock sh[839]: INFO:librespot::session: Authenticated as "woodskiz" !

Jul 22 17:01:01 AsRock sh[839]: INFO:librespot::audio_backend::alsa: Using alsa sink

Jul 22 17:01:01 AsRock sh[839]: INFO:librespot::session: Country: "NL"

Jul 22 17:01:07 AsRock sh[839]: INFO:librespot::player: Loading track "Emergency on Planet Earth - Remastered"

Jul 22 17:01:09 AsRock sh[839]: INFO:librespot::player: Track "Emergency on Planet Earth - Remastered" loaded

Jul 22 17:01:45 AsRock sh[839]: INFO:librespot::player: Loading track "Emergency on Planet Earth - Remastered"

Jul 22 17:01:47 AsRock sh[839]: INFO:librespot::player: Track "Emergency on Planet Earth - Remastered" loaded

Jul 22 17:01:47 AsRock sh[839]: INFO:librespot::player: onstart 1

Jul 22 17:01:57 AsRock sh[839]: INFO:librespot::player: onstop 5

Jul 22 17:02:02 AsRock sh[839]: INFO:librespot::player: Loading track "Emergency on Planet Earth - Remastered"

Jul 22 17:02:04 AsRock sh[839]: INFO:librespot::player: Track "Emergency on Planet Earth - Remastered" loaded

Jul 22 17:02:04 AsRock sh[839]: INFO:librespot::player: onstart 1

Jul 22 17:02:33 AsRock sh[839]: INFO:librespot::player: onstop 1

Jul 22 17:02:33 AsRock sh[839]: INFO:librespot::player: Loading track "Canned Heat - Remastered"

Jul 22 17:02:34 AsRock sh[839]: INFO:librespot::player: Track "Canned Heat - Remastered" loaded

Jul 22 17:02:34 AsRock sh[839]: INFO:librespot::player: onstart 1

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Discovery mode would not work without Avahi

Quote from Camella

And then the screen goes black after 6 or so seconds

You can pick a different visualisation

I have pushed revision 106 of the addon, which corresponds to preview 105d.

I intend to further improve the addon, in particular:

1. continuous playback, in the line of this proposal

2. write to the control named pipe directly from librespot rather than with a bash script

3. show a customized on screen display (OSD)

Would a Rust programmer be so kind to help me out with #2

Would a Kodi skinner be so kind to help me out with #3

Thanks in advance

For information, preview 105d for RPi2 should run on arm variants of LibreELEC 8.x for Odroid_C2, S905, S912, WeTek_Hub and WeTek_Play_2.

Quote from neographikal

It is working here, but not at boot. I need to navigate to the plugin and disable/enable it. When I do that it will show up in spotify but not before that, doesn't seem to autostart on boot? I was on an old build (manually installed), uninstalled that one and got the one from the repo's.

Another strange issue, I have auto screen off after 5 mins, this kills the music while it is connected through SPDIF not HDMI.

Hm... Revision 106 of the addon waits for Kodi to start, by that time audio devices should be up.

Are you playing in ALSA or Kodi mode (you can check this in the settings of the addon)?

A log (journalctl -u service.librespot) would be helpful to assess both issues.

Quote from sugarlee

Hi, was looking for this! where can I download the addon?

In LibreELEC 8.0 or later, install Librespot from the LibreELEC Add-ons repository (in the Services section)