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1. Either use android Spotify app or desktop on your windows machine (windows build showed everything faster)
2. No, just put your username and password, you can check status with
systemctl status Spotify-connect.service
You need premium account
3. Do this via browser – use max2play IP to get to config page, then move to audioplayer tab -> edit advanced options under squeezelite and add -C 10 to make sure once you’ll turn off squeezelite your card will be free to be taken over by Spotify connect. BTW make sure you’ll turn off squeezelite in LMS web page with power button!
4. Try to reconnect to WiFi or it worked for me faster without any tricks on desktop Spotify client.This is how I did this – I think it should be quite an easy to implement this as plugin in max2play.
Step by step (you need to be root):
1. Look up the most recent release of librespot and copy the link to the latest ZIP-file
2. SSH into your Pi and get the ZIP (example; copy your own link after ‚wget‘):
wget https://github.com/herrernst/librespot/releases/download/v20170413-d95c0b3/librespot-linux-armhf-raspberry_pi.zip
3. Unzip:
unzip librespot-linux-armhf-raspberry_pi.zip
4. Create the service definition:
nano /etc/systemd/system/spotify-connect.service
5. Paste the following into the empty file:[Unit] Description=Librespot Requires=network-online.target After=network-online.target [Service] User=root Restart=always RestartSec=10 ExecStart=/root/librespot --name SpotiPi --username renebouwmeester --password ******** --disable-discovery --cache /tmp --bitrate 320 --device hw:0 > /dev/null 2>&1 [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target6. Save with CTRL-X, Y
7. Reload daemons:
systemctl daemon-reload
8. Enable your new service:
systemctl enable spotify-connect.service
9. Enable and activate your new service:
systemctl start spotify-connect.serviceThis works for me on two max2play installations:
1. Hifiberry Digi+ Pro (multisuqeeze – hw:0 is my Hifiberry – hw:1 is USB DAC)
You need to add -C <sec> option to squeezelite command line
-C 10
2. IQAudio DigiAmp+
You need to add -C <sec> option to squeezelite command line
-o hw:CARD=IQaudIODAC -V Digital -C 10
(I’ve removed -Q option as after closing output device alsa volume was set to 0 – librespot does only software volume)
3. For USB DAC you need to use plughw:CARD=<name> – use aplay -L to get this name, in my case it’s:
plughw:CARD=Pro
That’s for Matrix Mini-i Pro 2014Other options worth mentioning:
Enable I2S-MMAP (Mixerdevice for Soundcards) – ON
Disable IPv6 – OFF (this gave me error as it’s turned ON as default)
Disable Build-In-Audio on RPI3 – ONCredits:
https://github.com/herrernst/librespot
https://community.roonlabs.com/t/spotify-connect-on-your-roonbridged-pi-the-quick-n-easy-way/17896
https://github.com/herrernst/librespot/releases/
