Now with Windows support - at last!
As otherwise this is basically the same as 1.99.x with improved Windows
support, I'll re-post the announcement :-).
Except for how to enable the feature. Read all of this announcement to
get things working!
23700
I'm currently playing a Daily Mix on my Transporter. Spotify Connect
support - what does that mean:
- Control Spotify playback on your Squeezebox using Spotify's
applications (desktop, mobile)
- Get access to (some of - see below) the Spotify content which is not
available through their API yet, thus can't be accessed through the
plugin
- Transfer Spotify playback from your office Squeezebox to your phone
to your car to your phone to your home Squeezebox
It's a bit of a hack, but it seems to be working reasonably well. So
here's the list of open issues and limitations I'm aware of:
- For whatever reason Spotify would not allow me to play Podcasts to
Spotty
- Squeezebox would show the next track's metadata 5-10s before it
actually starts playing (whil the previous track was still active)
- Spotify's limitations apply: if you play music to your Squeezebox
using Connect, you cannot listen to Spotify on your phone or any other
Spotify Connect endpoint.
- Doesn't work with password protection on LMS.
If you want to give Spotty Connect a try, go to the LMS web UI,
Settings/Player/Spotty, and enable the feature for the device(s) you
want. Please note that every activated player will launch a daemon in
the background. Be careful if you run LMS on a NAS with 256MB or even
less...
PS: NAS devices known to be compatible or not with Spotty at this
point:
- Synology: check out your model in the 'CPU architecture overview'
(http://www.synology-wiki.de/index.php/Welchen_Prozessortyp_besitzt_mein_System%3F).
If it's in the Intel x86-*, or armv7 section, then you're fine. Make
sure you're running the latest DSM and 'LMSRepack'
(http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?107180-Synology-7-9-1-packages&highlight=lmsrepack)
or LMSUpdate. Otherwise I'm sorry.
- ReadyNAS: The old Sparc based devices (Duo, NV), as well as their
ARMv5 based successors (Duo v2, NV v2) will not work. On newer models
you might need to 'manually install IO::Socket::SSL'
(http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?107615-Announce-Spotty-v1-1-0&p=889635#post889635).
- QNAP: similarly to Synology there are many different models.
Unfortunately 'I haven't found a good overview'
(https://eu1.qnap.com/Storage/TechnicalDocument/20140618-QNAP_Turbo_NAS_Hardware_Manual_ENG.pdf).
If you're on Intel, then you should be fine. ARM - depends on what
exact model. You, too, might need to 'install IO::Socket::SSL'
(http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?107615-Announce-Spotty-v1-1-0&p=890362&viewfull=1#post890362)
Michael
http://www.herger.net/slim-plugins - Spotty, MusicArtistInfo
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