Spotify does not work.

flovato

Hi guys,

it worked before, suddendly is mute.
Music from SSD it's ok only Spotify dont work, look library and it seems playing but... silence
After many tests with Raspberry PI 3 ask if you have same problems ?

hondagx35

Hi flovato,

please try this:
- switch to spotify
- select and play a song
- go to MENU->MPD and select a different audio output
- change the output back to the old one.

Frank

pietpara

Hi,

I also cannot get Spotify to work.
I just opened Spotify in the library where I chose "Spotify" form the list. I then get an endless spinning wheel saying something about "launching backend...." which never stops.
I went to settings and activate Spotify, added my username and password, but that didn't change anything.
I then noticed that my username was incorrectly spelled, so I want to change it. But now, whatever setting I try to change and hit "apply", the settings are not saved. Even after a reboot, any change in settings is disregarded and reverts back to old settings.

How can I solve this, please?

thanks
Pietpara

hondagx35

Hi Pietpara,

do you have a premium account?

On the playback screen click on Spotify and change the player back to MPD.
I tested Spotify on my Rasptouch and it works like it should.

Do you use the touch screen or are you connected with a remote browser?

Frank

pietpara

Hi,
I wanted to add that it seems that I cannot change any setting anymore, neither in the settings menu nor in the MPD menu. Nor can I change volume, set to hardware. Rebooting doesn't help.

My debug log is here http://pastebin.com/QC33Sb3i

I hope someone can give me some hints.

Thank you in advance!

Pietpara

pietpara

hondagx35 wroteHi Pietpara,

do you have a premium account?

On the playback screen click on Spotify and change the player back to MPD.
I tested Spotify on my Rasptouch and it works like it should.

Do you use the touch screen or are you connected with a remote browser?

Frank

Thanks Frank,

Yes, I have a premium account. And, I can't change back to mpd because I can't change anything. Launching Spotify just brings up an endless turning gear with message about starting backend and nothing happens. Since then it seems I can no longer change any settings in any menu.

Thanks
Pietpara

ianhaynes

As reported in the Bug section I can't get Spotify to work either. I have a Premium account, can select a playlist from it which then shows in the queue but nothing will play.

Ian

pietpara

hondagx35 wroteHi Pietpara,

Hi Pietpara,

do you have a premium account?

On the playback screen click on Spotify and change the player back to MPD.
Frank

Just to be clear... I was never able to witch to spotify. So switching back from playback screen is not possible, it is already on MPD.
Music plays fine fom nas. But I cannot change volume or any settings.

Pietpara

hondagx35

Hi Ian,

your problem is different.

Have you tried this

please try this:
- switch to spotify
- select and play a song
- go to MENU->MPD and select a different audio output
- change the output back to the old one.

On all my systems spotify works like it should.

Frank

ianhaynes

Hi Frank,

As noted I can see the list of songs but nothing will play. I've tried switching back to MPD and then back to Spotify again but it makes no difference.

I'm using a new, unmodified, untweaked version of the the latest build.

Ian

hondagx35

Hi Ian,

please read my post again.

- go to MENU->MPD and select a different audio output
- change the output back to the old one.

Frank

hondagx35

Hi Pietpara,

Music plays fine fom nas. But I cannot change volume or any settings.

I have absolutely no idea what you did or what went wrong on your device.

Is your volume control greyed out?
If so please try to set the control to hardware or software on MENU->MPD.

You also can try to switch the output to Analog and then back to your DAC.

Frank

ianhaynes

Hi Frank,

Sorry, I couldn't get past the first part of your suggestion:

- switch to spotify
- select and play a song

As for switching to another audio output, I don't have any, just IQAudIODAC.

Ian

hondagx35

Hi Ian,

As for switching to another audio output, I don't have any, just IQAudIODAC.

With the latest stock image you should have Analog and HDMI as output options on a RP2/3.

If your kernel is updated you have to add
dtparam=audio=on
to your config.txt.

Frank

pietpara

hondagx35 wroteHi Pietpara,

Music plays fine fom nas. But I cannot change volume or any settings.
I have absolutely no idea what you did or what went wrong on your device.

Is your volume control greyed out?
If so please try to set the control to hardware or software on MENU->MPD.

You also can try to switch the output to Analog and then back to your DAC.

Frank

Thanks Frank,

well, it started when I opened Spotify from the Library screen. It said "Starting backend...." and just kept displaying this forever. I opened the settings menu, realizing that I had not activated spotify here. So I activated that and added (mispelt) username and password, and applied those settings. Nothing had changed, Spotify would still not launch. The I went back to settings menu and saw my username missed a letter, so I tried correcting that. That's when i noticed that I was unable to change any settings anymore.
I wanted to reboot, but through menu that did not work. I used Putty for a reboot command which rebooted it. But still no change in allowing any settings to be applied.
Volume control is visible and works graphically, but no volume change.

Does my debug log give no hints? http://pastebin.com/QC33Sb3i

Thanks
Pietpara

pietpara

Hi Frank,

If so please try to set the control to hardware or software on MENU->MPD.

You also can try to switch the output to Analog and then back to your DAC.

I tried this, but as said, I can change it but settings are not saved. After hitting apply or save, the settings revert to previous.
Very weird. Can it have anything to do with the error "cifs_mount failed" I see in the debug log?

cheers
Pietpara

hondagx35

Hi Pietpara,

Can it have anything to do with the error "cifs_mount failed" I see in the debug log?

No.

Please ssh to your device and check:
/var/log and /var/log/runeaudio
for any error.

It seems that something went terribly wrong on your device.
Have you ever done a hard reset (cut power)?

Your debug info looks good so far.

Frank

pietpara

Hi Frank,

I checked the logs and in /var/log there nothing peculiar.
However, in /var/log/runeaudio I see this in mpd.log:

Jan 13 21:47 : errno: Failed to open /var/lib/mpd/mpdstate: No such file or directory
Jan 13 21:47 : errno: Failed to save database: Failed to write to /var/lib/mpd/mpd.db: No space left on
device
Jan 13 21:47 : errno: Failed to write to /var/lib/mpd/mpdstate: No space left on device
Jan 13 21:47 : errno: Failed to open /var/lib/mpd/mpdstate: No such file or directory
Jan 13 21:47 : errno: Failed to save database: Failed to write to /var/lib/mpd/mpd.db: No space left on
device

Similarly in redis.log there are mentions of no space left to save DB on disk. With this message too:

WARNING overcommit_memory is set to 0! Background save may fail under low me
mory condition. To fix this issue add 'vm.overcommit_memory = 1' to /etc/sysctl.conf and then reboot or
run the command 'sysctl vm.overcommit_memory=1' for this to take effect.

Shall I do this, or first find out the reason why the disk is full. A partition might have corrupted?

I tried running fsck, but since I see there are so many partitions, I am not sure how to run it. Could you give me some commands?

And yes, I had to use the button on the side of the RaspTouch twice because the UI hung up and a shutdown through SSH didn't work.

Many thanks!
Pietpara

hondagx35

Hi Pietpara,

Shall I do this, or first find out the reason why the disk is full. A partition might have corrupted?

Yes first we have to find the problem.
I think it was Spotify trying to connect and then filling up the log files.
Log files are stored on a RAM disk.

Your debug data looks good:

###### Filesystem mounts - free space (df -h) ######
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root       1.9G  1.6G  168M  91% /
devtmpfs        458M     0  458M   0% /dev
tmpfs           462M     0  462M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           462M  6.2M  456M   2% /run
tmpfs           462M     0  462M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs           462M  4.0K  462M   1% /tmp
logs            5.0M   32K  5.0M   1% /var/log
rune-logs       5.0M   28K  5.0M   1% /var/log/runeaudio
/dev/mmcblk0p1  100M   18M   83M  18% /boot

If i were you i would start with a fresh sd card.

Frank

pietpara

Thanks Frank,

could you point me to a thread or guide that tells me how to do that, please?

And where to download the build that I need for the RaspTouch, please

Cheers
Pietpara