Posts by awiouy

**awiouy** · Autostart Librespot **awiouy** July 10, 2017 at 10:25 PM

Quote from Camella

It's the same when playing a movie, librespot disappears from my phone

After stopping the movie librespot comes back on the phone in seconds

But then it takes a minute before it's possible to connect again

I'm going to try a clean setup on another HD just to see if it's my build causing that

Works as programmed: the librespot service is stopped during Kodi playback, as a courtesy to potential Spotify users (do not disturb). Service is restarted immediately if Kodi user stops playback, or five seconds after playback ends.

**awiouy** · Autostart Librespot **awiouy** July 10, 2017 at 5:58 PM

Quote from Camella

That does make a big difference.

After a reboot my phone does see LibreSpot

But now it's really slow. Pushing stop on the phone for example takes 6 seconds

Going back to ALSA and it's responsive again

But then not working at boot as before

I'm using an old Asrock Ion 330 with a tiny Atom CPU

Smooth for H264 and it never let me down.

I forgot the password for openelec and the default isn't working

So getting the log is complicated

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The issue with ALSA is that service.librespot starts before your ALSA device(s) are ready.

I will try to find out how to solve this.

In the meantime, add sleep 5 at line 2 of /storage/.kodi/addons/service.librespot/bin/librespot.start

password for root is libreelec

**awiouy** · Autostart Librespot **awiouy** July 10, 2017 at 5:18 PM

Quote from Camella

Generic (linux)
I dropped the generic TAR file in my old openelec config with syslinux 6.0.3

<settings>

<setting id="ls_D" value="false" />

<setting id="ls_O" value="ALSA" />

<setting id="ls_b" value="-" />

<setting id="ls_d" value="true" />

<setting id="ls_o" value="" />

<setting id="ls_p" value="" />

<setting id="ls_u" value="" />

<setting id="pcm_3" value="0" />

</settings>

Log I will dig up in a bit

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Try playing through Kodi rather than ALSA

**awiouy** · Autostart Librespot **awiouy** July 10, 2017 at 5:08 PM

Quote from Camella

I was indeed wrong... It does auto start

But I can't conenct with spotify until I go

librespot > configure > ok

This after every reboot

I posted it now in the librespot thread

What LibreELEC project are you running (Generic, RPi2, etc.)?

What are your Librespot settings?

What is reported in the log (journalctl -u service.librespot)?

**awiouy** · Autostart Librespot **awiouy** July 10, 2017 at 4:13 PM

Quote from Camella

Hey I just upgraded really easy from openelec to LibreElec 8.0.2 on Linux

I did this to get Librespot (8.1.102). That add on works but it doesn't auto start

I tried to play with autoexec.py

import xbmc

xbmc.executebuiltin("RunAddon(service.librespot)")

But I guess this doesn't work because it's a service

So how do I get it to auto start ?

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Autostart?

Use a Spotify application (on your phone or PC) to select Librespot@libreelec and to play tracks. Make sure that Kodi is not playing anything else, as this disables Librespot.

Also, please ask questions, report bugs and request features in the thread dedicated to Librespot.

**awiouy** · Librespot Add-on **awiouy** July 10, 2017 at 1:15 PM

Quote from infinity85
Since GDPR-1 released a new LE build, the kodi-output option finally started working

Now I see what the aim was, to include this function:

Ability to control Spotify through KODI Interface

This was unclear for me and that's why I asked twice why you included this function (didn't know your itention)

However there are some issues I'd like to mention and to get explained, if possible:
(Using KODI output instead of ALSA:) After choosing Librespot@LibreELEC in my Android Spotify app the connection seems to have trouble getting established. It is mostly done successfully after the second attempt.
The librespot service seems to crash after one track and Librespot@LibreELEC device disappears as an available spotify device in Smartphone App. I need to do librespot.start to get it appear again. Here's the log then:
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librespot.start
                                    INFO:librespot: librespot ebeb776 (2017-07-08). Built on 2017-07-08.
                                    *** 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/avahi-compat?s=libdns_sd&e=librespot>
                                    INFO:librespot::session: Connecting to AP "gew1-accesspoint-b-f822.ap.spotify.com:4070"
                                    INFO:librespot::session: Authenticated as "*******" !
                                    INFO:librespot::session: Country: "DE"
                                    INFO:librespot::player: Loading track "C O O L"
                                    INFO:librespot::player: Track "C O O L" loaded
                                    INFO:librespot::util: Running kodi-send --action=RunAddon(service.librespot)
                                    INFO:librespot::util: Exit status: exit code: 0
                                    === args='time_base=1/44100:sample_rate=44100:sample_fmt=s16:channel_layout=0x3'
                                    === args='sample_fmts=s16:'
                                    [rtp @ 0x1644f30] Using AVStream.codec to pass codec parameters to muxers is deprecated, use AVStream.codecpar instead.
                                    thread '<unnamed>' panicked at 'called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: WireError("invalid value for enum: 12")', /checkout/src/libcore/result.rs:859
                                    note: Run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` for a backtrace.
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And a second attempt:
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LibreELEC:~ # librespot.start
INFO:librespot: librespot ebeb776 (2017-07-08). Built on 2017-07-08.
*** 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/avahi-compat?s=libdns_sd&e=librespot>
INFO:librespot::session: Connecting to AP "gew1-accesspoint-b-dz71.ap.spotify.com:4070"
INFO:librespot::session: Authenticated as "wmissal" !
INFO:librespot::session: Country: "DE"
thread '<unnamed>' panicked at 'called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: WireError("invalid value for enum: 12")', /checkout/src/libcore/result.rs:859
note: Run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` for a backtrace.
Two different issues here, apparently. And after that it dissappears again as available device in the smartphone app. Need to restart Kodi.
Independently from the other issues: Once the connection works the song starts playing after ca. 5s on Kodi and plays for about 3s. Then the sound disappears, the timestamps seem to jump betweet 4 and 5 seconds up and down (like a hickup without audio)... this takes about 5 seconds and then the song proceeds to play. Observed this many times.
Thats the log for this:
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13:38:25.155 T:4100526080  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: Opening: special://profile/addon_data/service.librespot/librespot.sdp

13:38:25.155 T:4100526080 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
13:38:25.159 T:3459371936  NOTICE: Creating InputStream
13:38:25.163 T:3459371936  NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
13:38:26.257 T:3459371936  NOTICE: Opening stream: 0 source: 256
13:38:26.257 T:3459371936  NOTICE: Finding audio codec for: 65542
13:38:26.257 T:3459371936  NOTICE: Creating audio thread
13:38:26.258 T:3642401696  NOTICE: running thread: CVideoPlayerAudio::Process()
13:38:26.268 T:3642401696  NOTICE: Creating audio stream (codec id: 65542, channels: 2, sample rate: 44100, no pass-through)
13:38:26.277 T:3459371936 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(video)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
13:38:30.085 T:3642401696  NOTICE: CVideoPlayerAudio::Process - stream stalled
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"stream stalled"
In kodi the showed playtime does not display the correct values. It is simply proceeding and doesn't start counting from 0 after the next song starts playing. It is always showing proceeding times like this: 06:48/06:56 with a delta of 8s between both times.

Similar: In kodi I see how librespot is showing the now playing info: "Librespot 00:xx / 00:xx minutes", but I cannot find it in Music section of Kodi? How do I access the controls/playlist in Kodi then?

Also playing a continuing playlist does not work apparently. After one song is finished it jumped only once to the next, and after that one playback stopped and crashed apparently (as the librespot@libreleec device disappeard again). Mostly it does not even play the second song.

Controls through smartphone (play/pause/skip etc.) seems to be without any effect? Perhaps supposed to be this way?
That's a load of issues, so I guess it is platform specific here, isn't it?
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Spotify changed its API and broke librespot yesterday morning, librespot was fixed yesterday evening, and the addon was updated just after that. Raybuntu should update the addon he provides.

As for Librespot through Kodi behaviour:

- Kodi user has priority over Spotify user (Librespot is not active when Kodi user is playing back a media, Kodi user can stop Librespot streaming, etc.)

- Librespot is controled via a Spotify app (start, stop, pause, etc.)

- Librespot streams to Kodi via ffmpegx/RTP, which introduces latency.

**awiouy** · WebGrab+Plus **awiouy** July 10, 2017 at 6:38 AM

Quote from Habibie

WebGrab+Plus v2.1 has been out for a few weeks now. If yiou can spare some times to upgrade this addon for the next LE releases, I certainly will appreciate that.

The addon needs an upgrade and a rework (clear split with user data). Will try to do that in July.

**awiouy** · Librespot Add-on **awiouy** July 9, 2017 at 10:40 PM

Quote from awiouy

For information:

librespot crashing on playback of certain tracks · Issue #212 · plietar/librespot · GitHub

Revision 102 of the addon fixes the issue. Please update.

**awiouy** · Librespot Add-on **awiouy** July 9, 2017 at 12:14 PM

For information:

librespot crashing on playback of certain tracks · Issue #212 · plietar/librespot · GitHub

**awiouy** · Librespot Add-on **awiouy** July 8, 2017 at 10:19 AM

Quote from Raybuntu

I will have to refresh my addons repo for LE8. I'm unable to test Spotify. I'm currently focusing on LE9. Are those new features merged at LE already? If it was merged lately I might not had the chance to pull and build it yet.

My Addons are built natively for the platform, so infinity85 should use my rb-leia builds for C2 and install those Addons from my repo. But please report all issue to me.

Mixing RPi addons with C2 will not work in this case cause it's linked against libmmal which is not used by C2 nor necessary to build.

Those new features have been merged into LE 8.0, 8.2 and 9.0.

**awiouy** · Librespot Add-on **awiouy** July 7, 2017 at 11:30 PM

Quote from infinity85

Is this mmal thing something raspberry specific? How does your addon work then on aarch64 systems like the official 64bit C2 builds? Is mmal mandatory for it, also in the future?

Good that we know the issue now

ffmpegx (which streams librespot output to RTP) uses project specific hardware acceleration support, such as mmal. Using ffmpegx built for a project (RPi2/arm) on another project (Odroid_C2/arm) might therefore not work.

I will see if I can add features required by librespot (native PCM transcoding and RTP) to ffmpeg provided by LibreELEC, but that will be for LibreELEC 9.0.

In the meantime, a solution is to build the addon (or ffmpegx) for Odroid_C2/arm.

**awiouy** · Librespot Add-on **awiouy** July 7, 2017 at 11:09 PM

Quote from infinity85

Nice approach!

here you are (errors indeed):

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LibreELEC:~ # librespot.start
ffmpegx: error while loading shared libraries: libmmal_core.so: cannot open shar   ed object file: No such file or directory
INFO:librespot: librespot 3fd667b (2017-07-05). Built on 2017-07-05.
*** WARNING *** The program 'librespot' uses the Apple Bonjour compatibility lay   er of Avahi.
*** WARNING *** Please fix your application to use the native API of Avahi!
*** WARNING *** For more information see <http://0pointer.de/avahi-compat?s=libd   ns_sd&e=librespot>
INFO:librespot::session: Connecting to AP "gew1-accesspoint-b-xj7b.ap.spotify.co   m:4070"
INFO:librespot::session: Authenticated as "*******" !
INFO:librespot::session: Country: "DE"
INFO:librespot::player: Loading track "Two Weeks"
INFO:librespot::player: Track "Two Weeks" loaded
INFO:librespot::util: Running kodi-send --action=RunAddon(service.librespot)
close failed in file object destructor:
sys.excepthook is missing
lost sys.stderr
INFO:librespot::util: Exit status: exit code: 0
thread '<unnamed>' panicked at 'called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: Err   or { repr: Os { code: 32, message: "Broken pipe" } }', /checkout/src/libcore/res   ult.rs:859
note: Run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` for a backtrace.

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During this my Android app showed that track is playing on Librespot@LibreELEC. But actually it did not.

Then the device (Librespot@LibreELEC) disappeared from the overview of connect devices in android spotify app.

Hope this helps to narrow it down somehow.

Got it!

ffmpegx for RPi2 is built with mmal support, which is apparently lacking on Odroid_C2/arm. I am sure Raybuntu will build the addon, if you ask him to.

**awiouy** · LibreElec Config / Tethering **awiouy** July 7, 2017 at 9:12 AM

Prefix in tvheadend?

Access configuration - Tvheadend

**awiouy** · Librespot Add-on **awiouy** July 7, 2017 at 5:47 AM

Quote from infinity85

Well yeah, he has it there, but I haven't installed it. Inputsteam.adaptive is the successor of inputstream.rtmp as far as I know.

Here's the log, where you can see which add-ons are installed: eOYE There is no inputstream.rtmp mentioned.

I tested on my RPi: the librespot works fine without any inpustream addon.

So let us try to assess differently.

First determine if the service runs correctly:

Code

systemctl stop service.librespot
librespot.start

Any errors?

**awiouy** · Librespot Add-on **awiouy** July 6, 2017 at 9:11 PM

Quote from infinity85

Nope, as far as I can see I have only inputstream.adaptive v1.0.8.

No other inputstream addons present.

weird, I see it here: rb-addons/addons/8.1/Odroid_C2/arm/inputstream.rtmp at master · Raybuntu/rb-addons · GitHub

**awiouy** · Librespot Add-on **awiouy** July 6, 2017 at 8:09 PM

Quote from infinity85

Yep, inputstream.adaptive. But after I saw a relation in the logs I've uninstalled it, with the same effect. The log is made with disabled Inputstream.adaptive.

inputstream.rtmp?

**awiouy** · Librespot Add-on **awiouy** July 6, 2017 at 7:41 PM

Quote from infinity85

Ah thanks. What benefit would that have? Will kodi react on play/pause controls from within kodi, or what is the idea behind this?

Asking because it doesn't work for me here on my Odroid C2 with 32bit libs (compatible with RPi2/3). Otherwise I would've test it.

If I set kodi and then connect from my Android phone to Librespot@LibreELEC device, it apparently connects (showing green on Android App) but looses connection immediately. Never get any sound out of it. If I set back to ALSA I get working spotify connect.

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20:21:07.163 T:4117226048  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: Opening: special://profile/addon_data/service.librespot/librespot.sdp
20:21:07.163 T:4117226048 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
20:21:07.164 T:3453916064  NOTICE: Creating InputStream
20:21:07.166 T:3453916064   ERROR: CVideoPlayer::OpenInputStream - error opening [special://profile/addon_data/service.librespot/librespot.sdp]
20:21:07.166 T:3453916064  NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::OnExit()
20:21:07.209 T:4117226048  NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()
20:21:07.209 T:4117226048  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
20:21:07.210 T:4117226048  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: finished waiting
20:21:07.210 T:4117226048  NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()
20:21:07.210 T:4117226048  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
20:21:07.210 T:4117226048  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: finished waiting
20:21:13.503 T:4117226048  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: Opening: special://profile/addon_data/service.librespot/librespot.sdp
20:21:13.504 T:4117226048 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
20:21:13.504 T:3545944992  NOTICE: Creating InputStream
20:21:13.506 T:3545944992   ERROR: CVideoPlayer::OpenInputStream - error opening [special://profile/addon_data/service.librespot/librespot.sdp]
20:21:13.506 T:3545944992  NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::OnExit()
20:21:13.548 T:4117226048  NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()
20:21:13.548 T:4117226048  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
20:21:13.548 T:4117226048  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: finished waiting
20:21:13.548 T:4117226048  NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()
20:21:13.548 T:4117226048  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
20:21:13.548 T:4117226048  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: finished waiting

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Have you installed the inpustream.* addons?

**awiouy** · Librespot Add-on **awiouy** July 6, 2017 at 12:10 PM

Quote from infinity85

awiouy

Could you please explain what this "streaming to kodi" means? Also, how do you enable it and whats the difference to Spotify Connect. And how do you control it then, if it is different to Connect? Is it integrated in Kodis Musicmanager then?

By default librespot streams to the default ALSA output device. If you set Output to Kodi in the settings of the addon, librespot will play through Kodi.