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- Use a familiar free service such as Amazon Music, iHeartRadio or Spotify I've tried mopidy frontends, but none seem to support Amazon Music or iHeartRadio and require a Spotify premium account. The Pi's are running Jessie Lite and I've added a script at the end of my.bashrc that launches Chromium in fullscreen Kiosk mode to the various.
- Max2Play offers a browser based administration interface for mini-computers like Raspberry Pi and Odroid on a Linux basis. With Max2Play, applications, so-called Max2Play extensions can be installed.
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Even mid-range systems were £300 per room. Read more Raspberry Pi stories on Electronics Weekly » Raspberry Pi has changed all that, and now the only qualification for such a multi-room audio system is the ability to follow step-by-step instructions – and maybe £100 per room for good sound through existing loudspeakers, and under £30 if you have an old set of computer speakers lying.
Here's Spotty, my not fully fleshed out potential next generation Spotify implementation for Squeezebox. Spotty is using the open-source librespot library (https://github.com/plietar/librespot). That library is implemented in a programming language I didn't even know before (Rust). So please prepare for failure and longish bugfix cycles :-). If you're ready to take the risk, here you go:
- Add http://www.herger.net/slim-plugins/test.xml to the plugins repository list
- Install Spotty
- Uninstall the official Spotify, Spotify Protocol Handler and Triode's Spotify plugins (if installed)
- Head over to mysqueezebox.com to remove Spotify from your apps
- Restart LMS
- Go to Settings/Advanced/Spotty and follow the instructions
- Use Spotty as you used to use Spotify on SB before.
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On platforms other than Windows you should be able to authorize the plugin using your mobile or desktop Spotify application. On Windows unfortunately you'll have to enter username/password (which are NOT stored in LMS).
My kids have been using this plugin for a few weeks now, for hours a day. It sometimes takes a tad longer to buffer the first track. But after that playback seems to be pretty gapless. It does seeking. Doesn't crash when skipping tracks. Isn't limited to a single device. Let's keep fingers crossed it continues to work post Fall '17...
Technically this implementation follows a pretty different approach than the old implementations. Rather than having a daemon run in the background, Spotty is running the helper app for every track. It uses the transcoding framework to pipe the audio data back in to LMS, very much like any file format would do which required transcoding. By default Spotty would stream audio as FLAC. But this can be changed in the file formats settings (PCM or mp3). My office LMS is running on a piCorePlayer based Pi3 installation. CPU load is well below 10% during playback.
There are binaries for MacOS, Windows (needs MS VC 2015 runtime), and some Linux flavors (i686, x86_64, ARM HF & SF). I would be surprised if they worked all, though :-/. In particular the arm build has seen little to no testing. It fails on my ReadyNAS Duo v2 lack of some dependencies. The list continues... Please report back your 'uname -a' if you fail on Linux. Thanks!
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In previous posts I already talked about all these different headless audioplayer operating systems there are for small single board computers such as the Raspberry Pies (eg. Volumio and Max2Play). I also discussed that I am a Spotify user and love the Spotify Connect feature and the multiroom speaker possibility it brings. But the two audioplayer OSes that I am current testing did not support Spotify Connect so far, so I am currently resorting to a multiroom setup using Max2Play, Logitech Media Server (LMS) and the “triode” Spotify plugin to control several devices (RPis with Squeezeplayer software/Squeezebox duet receiver) for audio playback. It works, but the look and feel of LMS is very dated, so I am still on the lookout for improvement and I am not alone. The requested features section of the user forums of both Volumio and Max2Play show major interest in Spotify Connect. However the developer(s) of Max2Play does not seem to warm-up to this feature, while it trumps to be the multiroom audio centered OS. A missed chance in my view. In the meanwhile, Volumio has beaten Max2Play to the punch via support of third party plugins and the coding work available at Github of user “Balbuze” which seem to be based on previous work of “Fornoth” and “Plietar”. I am planning to test Balbuze’s Spotify Connect plugin “Volspotconnect” in Volumio shortly on my Pi Zero that currently runs Max2play. The plugin is specific for ARM6 and ARM7 chip based computers such the Rasberry Pi’s, so if you are running Volumio on a Intel machine, bad luck for now. It is a basic plugin that just makes your Volumio device show up as a Spotify Connect device. It has no connection with the Volumio interface yet, so no control via this interface or cover-art. This is no problem as you would rather use the Spotify software or app to control playback. It is clearly a work in progress. I also thought that you also needed a Spotify app developers key, which your can request here. However commenter Wim, indicated that this key is already present in the zip file provided by Balubuze. That makes it even simpler, I hope to have time soon to get this up and running. This also seems a good topic for a Youtube tutorial so stay tuned!
Yeah, it works! See the tutorial here: