Posts by audiobobo

  • Librespot addon

    Only an update on what I ended up doing: I removed LibreELEC just to have more control,

    and ended up installing Rocky Linux 8, Kodi (using flatpak) and librespot.

    I set Kodi and librespot as "startup applications", and they work nicely together now

    (they can also play simultaneously, for example).

  • Librespot addon

    It actually made sense to start librespot with --backend alsa, since my USB DAC is on an alsa output (!)

    From this thread (I think) I found:

    Code
    cd /storage/.config/system.d

cp /storage/.kodi/addons/service.librespot/miscellaneous/service.librespot-alsa.service .

systemctl enable service.librespot-alsa.service

    The above makes sure that librespot auto-starts librespot at boot, like so:

    Code
    /storage/.kodi/addons/service.librespot/bin/librespot --backend alsa --bitrate 320 --cache /storage/.config/lsa_cache --device-type computer --disable-audio-cache --name Librespot ALSA Restart=always

    edit: I also had to create the file /storage/.config/asound.conf, to tell alsa where the USB DAC sits:

    Code
    pcm.device {
           type hw
           card 1
           device 0
}

pcm.!default {
             type plug
             slave.pcm "device"
}

    (not sure yet what the 2nd section does here)

    So now everything works, except when I switch back to Kodi, to watch something, or play music from there for example: it seems that librespot has taken the audio output, and Kodi outputs no sound :( (the USB DAC is also no longer listed in the available audio outputs in the system settings).

    If I reboot, then Kodi plays audio ok.

    There should be an easy way to switch between the two, or maybe (?) get them to both use pulseaudio.

  • Librespot addon

    Quote from audiobobo

    (also running LibreElec 10.0.2, Librespot 10.0.0.129, but on an Intel NUC).

    I can connect to Librespot from the phone, start playing, but get no sound.

    Error messages are also identical ("sendmsg failed: connection refused")

    Updated to LibreElec 10.0.3 now.

    I managed to get sound by doing the following:

    - install Librespot, but disable it

    - ssh into the machine (or open a terminal on it, assuming this is possible), and running librespot manually like this:

    Code
    librespot --verbose --backend alsa --device="hw:1,0" --bitrate 320 --cache cache --disable-audio-cache --name boba --notify-kodi

    - before that I had run "aplay -l" to get the device numbers of my audio output (a USB DAC):

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    boba:~ # aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
... (lines deleted) ...
card 1: Set [C-Media USB Headphone Set], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

    The way that librespot runs when the plugin is enabled (but producing that connect error) is as follows:

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    boba:~/.config # ps -ef|grep libre
  900 root      0:13 librespot --backend pulseaudio --bitrate 320 --cache cache --device librespot --device-type TV --disable-audio-cache --name Librespot@boba --notify-kodi

    So now I'm thinking it doesn't work because of some pulseaudio configuration problem.

    At least I have sound now :)

    I'll dig a bit more.

  • Librespot addon

    Quote from MikeCC

    I recently installed LibreELEC 10.0.2 on my RPI3. First I installed the Librespot addon (Version 10.0.0.129).

    But Librespot doesn't work. I can see Librespot at my Spotify App on my smartphone, but after choosing Librespot in my Spotify app no music plays to start.

    In logs I can see that I get every 10s the log message, as long the Librespot addon is running :

    pulseaudio[311]: W: [pulseaudio] sap.c: sendmsg() failed: Connection refused

    Did you figure this out yet?

    This is a "me too" post: seeing exactly the same thing (also running LibreElec 10.0.02, Librespot 10.0.0.129, but on an Intel NUC).

    I can connect to Librespot from the phone, start playing, but get no sound.

    Error messages are also identical ("sendmsg failed: connection refused")