Lost Spotify

Moggy

I've been happily running Rune on a Pi 2 for around a month. Yesterday it stopped streaming Spotify mid-track! Spotify still works on other devices, but selection button on the settings menu is greyed-out on Rune. Restarted Pi and reinstalled Rune app on my phone, but didn't help. Any suggestions?
Cheers
PS I am a complete numpty with computers, so any instructions would need to be extremely basic!

KHatfull

Any chance you changed your Spotify password or let your Premium subscription run out?

Moggy

No, it doesn't work for any of the members on my family account (which is a premium account). Also the fact it cut out mid track whilst logged in rules out a password problem.

hondagx35

Hi Moggy,

maybe someone in your family has deleted the playlists.
Turn on debug on the dev page and check the logs for errors.

http://your-ip/dev

The logs are available in /var/log/mpd....

Frank

Moggy

Hi Frank
Playlists are still there for every user. Also, Spotify cut out in the middle of use when no-one was actually interacting with the software. I don't understand how a lack of playlists would grey-out the Spotify selection button, surely it would just mean there was nothing to play.

As I said in my first post, I need more detailed instructions for de-bugging if it involves interacting with the software on a programming level.
Thanks

vienna_hifi_addict

Greetings:

I'm having the same problem. Spotify quit a day or two ago, right in the middle of a song. I can see the play lists in Rune. I can listen to Spotify on other devices.

The Spotify button works. However, sometimes Spotify takes a long time to load. If I select a song, I can see it in the play queue and on the now-playing page, but I get no sound.

David

Moggy wroteHi Frank
Playlists are still there for every user. Also, Spotify cut out in the middle of use when no-one was actually interacting with the software. I don't understand how a lack of playlists would grey-out the Spotify selection button, surely it would just mean there was nothing to play.

As I said in my first post, I need more detailed instructions for de-bugging if it involves interacting with the software on a programming level.
Thanks

vienna_hifi_addict

I remembered I'd had this problem before, and it turned out I could play Spotify through the analog out of the Raspberry Pi, but not via USB. Turns out the problem's returned -- Spotify plays fine through the analog out, but not USB. Not sure why this is -- I edited some files (with kind help!) and it was working for several weeks. Guess I'll have to go back and look at those files again.

vienna_hifi_addict wrote Greetings:

I'm having the same problem. Spotify quit a day or two ago, right in the middle of a song. I can see the play lists in Rune. I can listen to Spotify on other devices.

The Spotify button works. However, sometimes Spotify takes a long time to load. If I select a song, I can see it in the play queue and on the now-playing page, but I get no sound.

David

Moggy wroteHi Frank
Playlists are still there for every user. Also, Spotify cut out in the middle of use when no-one was actually interacting with the software. I don't understand how a lack of playlists would grey-out the Spotify selection button, surely it would just mean there was nothing to play.

As I said in my first post, I need more detailed instructions for de-bugging if it involves interacting with the software on a programming level.
Thanks

KHatfull

This happened to me tonight briefly, but not permanently.

Entries in spopd.log seemed to indicate a DNS lookup error on the host that spopd was trying to communicate with.

I'll continue to monitor.

Moggy

Well, Spotify spontaneously re-appeared a week later, after several people had failed to connect in! No idea what caused this. I'll keep an eye (ear?) on it to see if it happens again. If so, I'll probably have a go with musicbox as an alternative.
Cheers