[PROBLEM] Spotify Disconnect Issue in 9.1.2

[TheOldPresbyope]

I just updated from 9.1.0 to 9.1.2 and am no longer able to play Spotify: I can connect to my RPi3 (seemingly much quicker compared with previous releases), but then the RPi3 would immediately disconnect the moment I hit the play button.

I can repro this on a moOde player when I haven't selected a legitimate audio output device first.  The moode.log file shows

Code:

20241006 185804 watchdog: Spotify Connect crashed and was restarted

In this case, the selected audio output device was HDMI but no audio device is connected to the HDMI port. Had I tried to play a local file or a radio station, I'd get an Alert popup saying the same thing.


Solution (in my case, at least) - select a working audo output device before you connect to the Spotify renderer.

Regards,
Kent