[RELEASE] Spotimc: Another Spotify music addon

(2012-08-09 13:07)abusharif Wrote:  Hi,

Great addon!
Few questions tho. With latest nightlies (at least all released last month or two) sound is static/crackling when playing a song.
You can still hear the song itself but a lot of "static".
Sorry if it was brought up already, just curious what the issue is and if there is any fix to it.
(I had to go for nightlies since the "pause video/audio bug" is present in the "final" xbmc version.)

I am using latest spotimc 1.0 beta 1

When i play the song following is seen in xbmc.log.

Code:

13:01:21 T:140735185228160   ERROR: Init: Error creating demuxer
13:01:21 T:140735185228160   ERROR: ADPCMCodec: error opening file http://127.0.0.1:8080/track/6zX1edWck5DxIBWQMOUXO5.wav?idx=0|X-Spotify-Token=<removed by me>&User-Agent=Spotimc%2F1.0-beta1+%28XBMC%2F12.0-ALPHA5+Git%!
13:01:21 T:140735185228160 WARNING: Seek - failed to get remaining data
13:01:21 T:140735185228160 WARNING: Seek - failed to get remaining data
13:01:21 T:140735185228160 WARNING: CAEUtil::GuessChLayout - This method should really never be used, please fix the code that called this
13:01:21 T:140735185228160 WARNING: Previous line repeats 42 times.
13:01:21 T:140735185228160 WARNING: CAEUtil::GuessChLayout - This method should really never be used, please fix the code that called this
13:01:21 T:140735185228160 WARNING: CAEUtil::GuessChLayout - This method should really never be used, please fix the code that called this
13:01:21 T:4676272128 WARNING: CAEUtil::GuessChLayout - This method should really never be used, please fix the code that called this
13:01:21 T:140735185228160 WARNING: Previous line repeats 4 times.
13:01:21 T:4676272128 WARNING: CAEUtil::GuessChLayout - This method should really never be used, please fix the code that called this
13:01:24 T:140735185228160 WARNING: Previous line repeats 29 times.
13:01:24 T:4676272128 WARNING: CAEUtil::GuessChLayout - This method should really never be used, please fix the code that called this

Any idea about how to solve this? Workarround?

Thanks a bunch

*bump*
Any ideas? It has to be more people with same issue? (OSX)

(2012-08-18 13:45)SKIBBE Wrote:  SpotiMC can't multitask, you will have to use exit to turn of spotiMC then browse XBMC. it's a script-based player and therefore it has limits.

Doh! What a bummer
Well, it's a good add-on. Hopefully in the future something can be done about it.

Did a quick search but was not able to find anything so will ask/tell here

If you have "now playing" highlighted and you start the visualizer by hitting tab and then ýou stop the song, you are taken back to the "now playing" screen wich no longer exists due to stoping the song,

Suloution, do not start visualization in the "now playing" screen

Developer: or always have the "now playing" tab visable (the script is meant to play music so why not always show it)

Just wanted to share.

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(2012-08-08 22:07)Novin Wrote:  I have followed a previous suggestion to switch skin and then back again. It worked! I now realize that the look i've had is not the one intended, it looks good now.

I will send you a pm with two videos showing before and after so you can see how it looked.

So now it both works and looks good!

After watching the videos it seems that Spotimc was unable to write to the first skin (and therefore install include defs.), which is strange since there's a check to verify that the skin is writable. Which OS were you using? Spotimc had some issues on Win7, but they where fixed long ago.

(2012-08-09 11:22)KRKA01 Wrote:  I mostly using the Neon skin and i have experienced a similar issue several times. It started to happen after i had installed spotimc.

From time to time, i also ends up with black screen after i have restarted XBMC, i can't recall if it is only after spotimc have crashed, but it is atleast after i have used spotimc. To recover i have to delete the guisettings.xml file, start XBMC and make all gui settings again. I can't tell for sure it is spotimc that is causing this issue from time to time, i really don't have a clue what is causing this, but it is quite annoying.

Again, sorry if Spotimc ended up corrupting the skin. I'm aware that its an annoying bug, but I've never been able to reproduce it.

Just a question: When it crashed, did it crash the entire XBMC process (a potential segfault during shutdown) or just the addon (you where able to continue using XBMC, but with the blank screen).

Finally, if it corrupts your skin again I would love to see some pastebins of the following files from the active (and possibly corrupt) skin:

• Includes.xml
• Fonts.xml
  

(2012-08-09 13:07)abusharif Wrote:  With latest nightlies (at least all released last month or two) sound is static/crackling when playing a song.
You can still hear the song itself but a lot of "static".

(I had to go for nightlies since the "pause video/audio bug" is present in the "final" xbmc version.)

When i play the song following is seen in xbmc.log.

Code:

13:01:21 T:140735185228160 WARNING: Seek - failed to get remaining data
13:01:21 T:140735185228160 WARNING: Seek - failed to get remaining data
13:01:21 T:140735185228160 WARNING: CAEUtil::GuessChLayout - This method should really never be used, please fix the code that called this
13:01:21 T:140735185228160 WARNING: Previous line repeats 42 times.

Any idea about how to solve this? Workarround?

I did some minimal tests on Frodo alphas some time ago and was unable to notice this behavior. The CAEUtil::GuessChLayout traces were reported recently, and as explained, they may be related to the fact that the track streaming proxy is sending bad HTTP headers. Thanks for reporting!

(2012-08-10 21:02)Novin Wrote:  Two suggestions / feature requests:

1) Preload, if I start spotimc and have the Whats New tab and then go to Playlists it takes some time to load them. If it were preloaded I would have seen my playlists right away.
2) Cache, if I go back from Playlists to Whats New it needs to be reloaded again.. also the same if I then go back to playlists a second time.

Thanks and I hope both suggestions makes sense

My current focus is mainly on fixing bugs and releasing a final 1.0 version. When it happens I'll start adding new features again, and probably improve load times.

Of course these suggestions make sense (particularly on the plyalist views, that may take ages to load ). Thanks for the suggestion.

(2012-08-11 17:02)Varazir Wrote:  I have seen a bug, I don't know if it's known or not. I have re-enable shuffle every time I start spotimc.

That bug was fixed recently, and it's going to be included on the next release.

(2012-08-13 19:09)reine1985 Wrote:  Amazing job i actually registred on this forum just to post this reply

I'm glad you like the addon!

(2012-08-14 02:24)aune Wrote:  Finally got this addon installed and working
I had some problems with "Script failed. ..", and tried the zips for both alpha and beta without any luck. My final effort was to create a new windows user without the norwegian character 'å', and this solved my problem.

This issue is related to python. It was discussed on github some time ago: https://github.com/mazkolain/spotimc/iss...nt-6067875

(2012-08-14 12:35)IndexOverflow Wrote:  Having some problems with the script failed error.

Trying to install the addon on Rasperry with Raspbmc.

This one is related to libspotify. In short, libspotify is not binary compatible with the latest Raspbmc releases. This was discussed recently on a github issue: https://github.com/mazkolain/spotimc/iss...nt-7817002

(2012-08-17 16:32)zoyd Wrote:  Any progress report for ATV2? thx

I've been fiddling with this issue recently and I have some clues on how to use the iOS library, but sadly it's not ready (yet). Sorry...

(2012-08-17 16:40)Abrasher Wrote:  I would love to push this to the fusion installer if you are okay with that...

Of course, there's no problem! Thank you!

(2012-08-20 16:39)SKIBBE Wrote:  Did a quick search but was not able to find anything so will ask/tell here

If you have "now playing" highlighted and you start the visualizer by hitting tab and then ýou stop the song, you are taken back to the "now playing" screen wich no longer exists due to stoping the song,

Suloution, do not start visualization in the "now playing" screen

Developer: or always have the "now playing" tab visable (the script is meant to play music so why not always show it)

Just wanted to share.

You're right, I'll give it a spin. Thanks for reporting!

A quick note: Spotify is available in Canada, I don't seem to be able to get this plugin to work, errors on start. Wn7/64 Eden

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872...57226.html

This add-on is beyond phenomenal and truly invaluable. Been using it since the first release...any issue I had was already reported and subsequently fixed in the next release. Everything is very stable these days and I no longer live in fear that the track may skip to the next song at any given moment lol jk. Seriously, fantastic add on, love it! Thank you so much, mazkolain! :]

That said, I do have a small request. :]]]

I use the amazing android remote media manager Yatse by Tolriq. Great dev and equally amazing app. Unfortunately, while xbmc is able to display all the pertinent image data via Spotimc (covers, fan art, similar artists, etc), Yatse is unable to display these same images within it's widgets/now playing screen/fan art as wallpaper, notifications, etc. Upon inquiring with Tolriq as to the possibility of ever seeing Spotimc and Yatse play nice on his end, he offered this response:

(2012-08-22 17:36)Tolriq Wrote:  For spotimc this is not on my side The plugin needs to fills data in current player for me to get it.
And I don't know python (and don't want to ) so I can't really help, ask the author to check Youtube plugin so he adds the missing part.

If there is anything you can do to make the experience of Yatse + Spotimc mirror that of my local collection as closely as possible, I will continue to be eternally grateful since on xmbc itself it's already a reality. Fantastic add on once again and thank you for reading if you made it this far! :]

(2012-08-21 18:28)mazkolain Wrote:  [

(2012-08-09 11:22)KRKA01 Wrote:  I mostly using the Neon skin and i have experienced a similar issue several times. It started to happen after i had installed spotimc.

From time to time, i also ends up with black screen after i have restarted XBMC, i can't recall if it is only after spotimc have crashed, but it is atleast after i have used spotimc. To recover i have to delete the guisettings.xml file, start XBMC and make all gui settings again. I can't tell for sure it is spotimc that is causing this issue from time to time, i really don't have a clue what is causing this, but it is quite annoying.

Again, sorry if Spotimc ended up corrupting the skin. I'm aware that its an annoying bug, but I've never been able to reproduce it.

Just a question: When it crashed, did it crash the entire XBMC process (a potential segfault during shutdown) or just the addon (you where able to continue using XBMC, but with the blank screen).

Finally, if it corrupts your skin again I would love to see some pastebins of the following files from the active (and possibly corrupt) skin:

• Includes.xml
• Fonts.xml
  

Thanks for the reply and for one of the XBMC add-on i use the most. Excellent work.

What i can recall it was often the entire XBMC process that crashed and i also think it happened once when i had an windows BSOD. Havn´t encounter this issue for a while, but if it happens again, i will gather the requested info.

//Krister

*Displaying song titles in the XBMC remote app for Android* ?

I seldom use the android remote app (i have a logitech BT DiNovo Mini) but when using SpotifyMC the current playlist shows up making it really easy to browse and play/shuffle next song, the title apears in my notification bar (once you have started the song) but not in the actual app so to my question


Q: is it a script issue or a XBMC Remote issue? (the app only displays jibberish in my eyes)

Any news on the Apple TV 2? Still not compatible?

Thanks