[RELEASE] Spotimc: Another Spotify music addon

I got to say that this is The Plugin to have. Absolutely excellent even in its "alpha stage". I have been searching "10 foot interface" to Spotify for ages and then you did it as a XBMC plugin!

There are some (not many) irks and oddities in the UI (too late now to start listing them, they are minor and since this is only in its early stages..), but even now this is the best thing since sliced bread and The Almighty Johnsons.

Installed new version from repo and everything went smoothly.

(There are not that many good legal music/video services available here in Finland, but thank god Spotify is.)

Sorry for the off topic praise but I just had to.

I hope anyone can help me. I use Aeon Nox which means that I have to add add-ons to favourites before I can add them to the launchwindow in the skin. Except that the only addons I can add to favourites are video addons. This add-on doesn't show and I don't see where I can add this to favourites since the concept-button doesn't work in the add-on window.

Anyone know a workaround, or maybe a line of script in favourites.xml so that it adds to favourites?

edit: nevermind, got it working through the .xml

(2012-04-09 21:40)mazkolain Wrote:  

(2012-04-07 09:56)Spikey1989 Wrote:  starts in about row 463: log file
this file has 3 dif trys. dont know how to seperate them: log file 2

That's a known issue with some skins (Cirrus, ReFocus, etc). A fix for this will be included on the next alpha, which will be released this week.

I just wanted to comfirm that alpha5 made works on my xbmc with cirrus skin now

looking forward to all the other features

/Spikey

Anyone using this on OpenElec Fusion-build?

The alpha5 was working perfectly, crossfade was working without stuttering for a while before I decided to do do a crazy thing, playing music and at the same time starting a video (DTS sound) (or video and then start and play spotimc?) and then it crashed (sadly no logging) and then I lost use of default sound out of HDMI so no crossfade anymore. Restart XBMC or turn of PC and restart did not remedy this

Now I get lots of this, probably not related to spotymc. Do XBMC do some changes to asound settings recently or change settings while playing, since the crash broke the sound?

Warning: using insecure memory!
there is no soundcard
there is no soundcard
there is no soundcard
ALSA lib pcm.c:7316:(snd_pcm_recover) underrun occurred

Probably have to install XBMCbuntu from scratch to get it working again? (Had earlier changed .asoundrc file to get crossfade working)

Just installed the newest alpha, and it has fixed the track skipping problem for me.

I only have one complaint, I had a party on the 10th april - so the fix was not released in time for me. Where can I put my complaint in writing formally. I think I should have been consulted and you should have had the fix ready in time for my party.

(2012-04-12 01:51)skilljim Wrote:  Also...is there an ETA on when it could be up and running on an ATV?

It depends on a python module that is missing on ATV2. Once the module becomes available it should be a trivial task adding support for ATV2.

(2012-04-12 03:42)paavor Wrote:  I got to say that this is The Plugin to have. Absolutely excellent even in its "alpha stage". I have been searching "10 foot interface" to Spotify for ages and then you did it as a XBMC plugin!

There are some (not many) irks and oddities in the UI (too late now to start listing them, they are minor and since this is only in its early stages..), but even now this is the best thing since sliced bread and The Almighty Johnsons.

Installed new version from repo and everything went smoothly.

(There are not that many good legal music/video services available here in Finland, but thank god Spotify is.)

Sorry for the off topic praise but I just had to.

I'm glad you like the addon! Feel free to report any issues, probably there are many of them I'm unaware of.

(2012-04-13 21:59)kdid Wrote:  Anyone using this on OpenElec Fusion-build?

It's written on pure python, you shouln't have any problems to run it. Try it out!

(2012-04-13 23:29)Jan-Erik Wrote:  The alpha5 was working perfectly, crossfade was working without stuttering for a while before I decided to do do a crazy thing, playing music and at the same time starting a video (DTS sound) (or video and then start and play spotimc?) and then it crashed (sadly no logging) and then I lost use of default sound out of HDMI so no crossfade anymore. Restart XBMC or turn of PC and restart did not remedy this

Now I get lots of this, probably not related to spotymc. Do XBMC do some changes to asound settings recently or change settings while playing, since the crash broke the sound?

Warning: using insecure memory!
there is no soundcard
there is no soundcard
there is no soundcard
ALSA lib pcm.c:7316:(snd_pcm_recover) underrun occurred

Probably have to install XBMCbuntu from scratch to get it working again? (Had earlier changed .asoundrc file to get crossfade working)

Try restoring an earlier .asoundrc, or running XBMC on another user account. By the way, Spotimc does nothing bizarre with audio configs, it just serves local http streams that XBMC understands.

(2012-04-14 02:40)thebearnecessit Wrote:  Just installed the newest alpha, and it has fixed the track skipping problem for me.

I only have one complaint, I had a party on the 10th april - so the fix was not released in time for me. Where can I put my complaint in writing formally. I think I should have been consulted and you should have had the fix ready in time for my party.

Sorry if the fix came late. Maybe you now have a pretext to arrange a new party!

(2012-04-07 22:19)disolo Wrote:  

(2012-04-07 21:26)Jan-Erik Wrote:  

(2012-04-07 21:08)disolo Wrote:  I just installed the plugin on an XBMCbuntu Eden install. It works great.

However, if I use it in conjunction with XBMC Commander (iOS remote control app), tracks only play for about 7-10 seconds before going to the next track.

Is anyone else having this issue or a similar issue?

Thanks.

I have had problem with Spotify it self jumping to next track if it was some problem with streaming the track.
Had similar problem when using fast forward to much and when pressing play again sound strart to stutter and sometimes give up and jump to next track

(On a side track, when using fast forward playback time get lost sometimes and at the end of track playtime is higher than track time.)

Check your log to see if you have buffer underrun or CPU use issues

Thanks for the response. After looking at the log file, I believe the issue with Commander may have something to do with it trying to obtain the track data.

I can confirm the same problem using the official XBMC remote for android.

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(2012-04-13 23:29)Jan-Erik Wrote:  The alpha5 was working perfectly, crossfade was working without stuttering for a while before I decided to do do a crazy thing, playing music and at the same time starting a video (DTS sound) (or video and then start and play spotimc?) and then it crashed (sadly no logging) and then I lost use of default sound out of HDMI so no crossfade anymore. Restart XBMC or turn of PC and restart did not remedy this

Now I get lots of this, probably not related to spotymc. Do XBMC do some changes to asound settings recently or change settings while playing, since the crash broke the sound?

Warning: using insecure memory!
there is no soundcard
there is no soundcard
there is no soundcard
ALSA lib pcm.c:7316:(snd_pcm_recover) underrun occurred

Probably have to install XBMCbuntu from scratch to get it working again? (Had earlier changed .asoundrc file to get crossfade working)

(2012-04-14 12:10)mazkolain Wrote:  Try restoring an earlier .asoundrc, or running XBMC on another user account. By the way, Spotimc does nothing bizarre with audio configs, it just serves local http streams that XBMC understands.

I'm confused now?
Did as you suggest, restoring ~xbmc/.asoundrc yesterday + some restarting of the box, but didn't help.
Had a good night sleep and today run this to see if some setting was muted

And then had everything back to normal

not sure but it looks like the default sound setting is muted as default (my default sound output setting have from install been silent). Used this guide, but changed Audio Output Device to Default
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW...controller

This fixed crossfade and speaker location for HD sound, but maybe messed to much with the setting that make the stuttering sound?
When I have the time I install everything from scratch and just run the above unmute command to se if that fix the cross-fade and navigate sound?

Mazkolain,

My screensaver just kicked in whilst using spotiMC, and so i pressed a button on my remote to cancel the screensaver and it has given me a strage effect in spotiMC.

I can no longer control the orange box to navigate. Most of my screen (except the top horizontal section of spotiMC is grey. so the whole thing has pretty much crashed. the music played on for about a minute but then got stuck and started repeating the same second over and over.

had to reboot PC.

Amazing addon, loving your work, just thought i'd let you know. is this thread the correct place for reporting issues?

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this one has probably been reported already. i am getting the 'everlasting fart' effect when i exit spotiMC whilst a song is playing.

when i say everlasting it probably only about ten seconds but in the world of farts that is a long time indeed.