[RELEASE] Spotimc: Another Spotify music addon

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Man, in my opinion, the only thing that was missing in XBMC was a good spotify plugin so that I wouldn't have to go back to Windows.
You accomplished a terrific job here. This plugin is almost perfect for me. Works like a charm, is simple enough to use and looks really great.

The only thing though, it looks like it has skin issues. I'm testing it with Xeebo for exemple and the left menu is buggy (browse by artist/album), that means if I use my mouse or touchscreen I can't get it all the times or it show/disappears so fast that I can't use it.

Another thing is the compatibilty with the skin itself. The left part of the window is usually dedicated to the global XBMC menus and it becomes unreachable now.

Ayway, congratlutations for the best Spotify plug-in I've seen so far. Directly going from my test computer to my HTPC.

Thank you so much, I hope you'll have the opportunity/resources to make it even better.

(2012-03-11 01:38)mortstar Wrote:  EDIT: If you want this adding to a repository so users can easily update just let me know and I'll put it on mine.

I would be very pleased if you could add it to your repository, thank you! The version identifier of alpha3 was wrong. I fixed it and uploaded a new alpha4.

(2012-03-11 03:16)zuditechguy Wrote:  Also have anyone tried with the skin refocus. It don't seem to work with it.

It fails to load due to some XML comments on the ReFocus skin that elementree (the XML parser that Spotimc uses) is unable to read. I'll have a workaround for this soon.

(2012-03-11 09:01)Jönke Wrote:  Request/suggestion
Option to controll with contexmeny ("c"):
1,que/unque song
2,star/unstar
3,add to playlist

The addon already has a context menu that it's activated by pressing the left arrow. Queue and Add to playlist are already on my to-do list. Thank you!

(2012-03-11 10:07)johnnyvibrant Wrote:  mostly works good on ios with eden rc3 , i think playlists might not be working (or slow) on ipad 1 it crashes which might be down to the libspotify requirement not working for arm or something

Well, I wasn't even expecting it to work on IOS! Libspotify does have libs for arm too, but aren't handled yet by the addon's library loader code.

By the way, could you please reproduce the playlist bug and send me the log output? I think it could be related to some timeout event that it's not handled correctly.

(2012-03-12 13:43)Airchtit Wrote:  The only thing though, it looks like it has skin issues. I'm testing it with Xeebo for exemple and the left menu is buggy (browse by artist/album), that means if I use my mouse or touchscreen I can't get it all the times or it show/disappears so fast that I can't use it.

I'll try to make it more touchscreen and mouse friendly. Thanks!

(2012-03-11 10:07)johnnyvibrant Wrote:  mostly works good on ios with eden rc3 , i think playlists might not be working (or slow) on ipad 1 it crashes which might be down to the libspotify requirement not working for arm or something

Did you do something special to make it work? I'm getting

Quote:Error Contents: No module named _ctypes

on my appletv2. And then the plug-in crashes.

sorry i meant to write that it works good on imac (typo) i couldnt get it working at all on the ipad. Ill get a log over tomorrow for the playlist error

Everytime i exit Spotimc i have to reboot pc before i can login to spotimc again , it ask´s for user /pass and dosent remeber it again before i reboot

(2012-03-12 22:00)mazkolain Wrote:  

(2012-03-11 01:38)mortstar Wrote:  EDIT: If you want this adding to a repository so users can easily update just let me know and I'll put it on mine.

I would be very pleased if you could add it to your repository, thank you! The version identifier of alpha3 was wrong. I fixed it and uploaded a new alpha4.

You'll now find Spotimc in 'mortstar's repo'. Users who have the repository installed will receive updates automatically. Either use the Repositories Installer Addon to get my repo' or if you prefer you can grab the repository .zip from https://github.com/mortstar/repository-m...p?raw=true

@mazkolain - I've added your Github repository as a submodule, so please just PM when you have an updated version that you would like pulling. Once you've got it stable, I'd definitely suggest that you get it added to the official repo. A lot of people have been waiting a long time for a Spotify plugin for xbmc.

(2012-03-12 22:19)joymyr Wrote:  Did you do something special to make it work? I'm getting

Quote:Error Contents: No module named _ctypes

on my appletv2. And then the plug-in crashes.

See this thread:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=123167

It seems that ctypes is not available for IOS yet (and is needed to interface with libspotify). In conclusion, no ATV2 / iPad support for now. Sorry.

(2012-03-12 23:05)Jönke Wrote:  Everytime i exit Spotimc i have to reboot pc before i can login to spotimc again , it ask´s for user /pass and dosent remeber it again before i reboot

This is a known issue:
https://github.com/mazkolain/spotimc/wiki/FAQ

On windows works fine by manually freeing the library. Doing the same on Linux causes a segfault. I'm trying with a different fix, but can't promise anything.

Very good work, I am trying out the different functions. One request so far: I would like to be able to leave spotimc while still listening to the music. This meaning I guess, that the exit-function only applies when another media starts running.

I have been waiting long for this and it already looks promising! Keep up the good work and this will be really good

At last there is a Spotify plugin for XBMC. This is much easier than compile spotyxbmc2 and also have more feature.

Thanks for this excellent plugin.