Spotify on Rpi3

nickvas19

hello

I have premium account in Spotify. Also i put correct the account to my rpi3. Well i do a playlist and after i go to library. When i click on spotify it saws me a circle like something is loading but nothing happends.

any ideas?!

janui

Hi nickvas19,
There are some problems with Spotify, search the forum for details.
What you should get is a list of your own playlists, the playlists which you follow will not be shown. It is very slow and takes quite a while to load the information. But it works.
janui

P.S. On 20-12-2017 Spotify announced that they have given permission to the Lunix foundation to pre-install the Spotify software in the standard Linux distribution

So, there is a good chance that the current Spotify problems will soon be fixed and the possibility of more features.

Also thanks to Spotify for the Christmas present for all Linux audio enthusiasts.

nickvas19

I create my own playlist...but the circle still is here.

Well if it possible someone to tell me exactly that to do ...cause i didn't understand much .

thanx

janui

Hi nickvas19,
Are you loged into Spotify on another device? You can only have one active session (per account), Rune is not capable of taking over an active session. The other way around, the Spotify App can take over a session from Rune.
janui

nickvas19

thanx for your quick response.

wooow.my bad....you mean i must log off all my devices from spotify in order to play on rpi3?

janui

Hello nickvas19,
I have just tried Spotify my own Rune installation. I have exactly the same problem. I don’t know what has changed. Could you supply the first 20 lines of your debug information so that we know exactly which version of the software you are using. I will do some testing during the next couple of days.
janui

nickvas19

thanx doing that for me.

my version is release version: 0.4b (build: 20170229)

nickvas19

if you want something else about my version tell me know.

i will be waiting for your test results.

a big thanx.

hondagx35

Hi all,

I did a quick test with a fresh installation (from here) and it works without issues.
I do not use Spotify at all, so I can't tell you something about reliability.

Is your installation modified (kernel-, mpd- or other updates)?
Do you use special characters with your password?

Frank

nickvas19

it's clear.... i don't change anything on mpd,kernel etc.

my number account have only numbers.

janui

Hi nickvas19 & hondagx35,
On my Pi B+/zero version with an updated kernel Spotify works fine.
My Pi 3B version with an updated kernel (build janui-20171120) which is based on the v0.3-beta (23/03/2016) RuneAudio_rpi2_rp3_0.4-beta_20160321_2GB.img.gz Spotify will not work.
But I do know that Spotify has worked on the 0.3-beta (23/03/2016) RuneAudio_rpi2_rp3_0.4-beta_20160321_2GB.img.gz. But I don’t have this version installed at the moment so can't test it now.
Very strange.
janui

nickvas19

could you please let me know how to make the update?!

this will change something in the options?!cause i have two sd in one i left it as it is .....in the other i do some things usb,hdm,the voltage power etc....

thanx

nickvas19

Now i understand.

So what can i do for Spotify on rpi 3?any ideas

janui

Hi nickvas19 & hondagx35,

To fix this problem log in via SSH and edit the file /etc/spop/spopd.conf with the command

nano /etc/spop/spopd.conf

Search for the line with the contents 'cache_path =' and replace it with 'cache_path = /tmp/spop', it should then look like this

### Cache settings ###
#cache_size = 0
cache_path = /tmp/spop
settings_path = /tmp/spop

janui

Edited 27-12-2017: Solution modified for compatibility with the latest build, see here #6124

hondagx35

Hi janui,

on my latest image it is set to "cache_path = /tmp/spop".
Could you please try this on your installation.

Frank

janui

Hi hondagx35,

on my latest image it is set to "cache_path = /tmp/spop".
Could you please try this on your installation.

Tested. This works fine.
To avoid possible conflicting solutions I will modify my previous post.
janui

nickvas19

well....i it's like this as default. So there isn't something to change...and still doesn't work.

Any ideas?!

Must be the spotify opened in other device when i try to open it with rpi3?!

janui

Hi nickvas19,
It works without problems on my installation But it is a bit slow.
The only thing I can think of is: Do you use Spotify premium via a Facebook login account?
I use a login account direct with Spotify. The password has a couple of special characters, but no spaces. The special characters do not seem to be a problem.
janui

AurobindoSaha

This is an old thread, but I am still facing issues to run Spotify from RuneAudio. I have premium account and I have special characters in my password. Can the special characters be problematic?

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janui

Hi AurobindoSaha,

AurobindoSaha wroteThis is an old thread, but I am still facing issues to run Spotify from RuneAudio.

Please see here: #63755
janui