[HOW-TO] Spotify Connect Web for Moode

[RafaPolit]

The asound.conf file has the wrong card number, or the wrong type of software vol value, etc.

The status is showing "exited", which means it's not running.

Try some different values: 0, 1 ... or some other of the suggestions for the asound.conf file. If the speaker test line does not give a noise sound on the speakers, it is not working and Spotify Connect WEB will not be able to take control of ALSA.

[npetra]

Hi RafaPolit, I'm interested to use spotify gapless on moode 6 to remove space and click between tracks.
The correct procedure is this ?
https://github.com/RafaPolit/moode-spotify-connect-web

Sorry I'm a little bit confused due english and RPI pratics.
Thanks !!

[npetra]

Hi RafaPolit, I'm interested to use spotify gapless on moode 6 to remove space and click between tracks.
The correct procedure is this ?
https://github.com/RafaPolit/moode-spotify-connect-web

Sorry I'm a little bit confused due english and RPI pratics.
Thanks !!

I answer myself...
 
Work !!!!!
Thanks RafaPolit.
Great

[npetra]

My first post here.  Good morning  
Anyway, just to say I followed the instructions on Git to install this in V4.1 & it worked flawlessly.  Thank you to all involved.
Using an IQaudIO DAC Pro I just changed the reference from hw:1 to hw:0 in asound.conf.
I have a 2nd MoOde audio player, one in a bedroom for headphone use only & I will want it to have a different spotify-connect name, looking at the instructions it will just be a case of amending "spotify-connect.sh" accordingly:

Code:

spotify-connect.sh

Code:

#!/bin/sh

cd /
cd home/pi/spotify/spotify-connect-web
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/pi/spotify/spotify-connect-web python main.py --playback_device softvol -m Master --mixer_device_index 0 --bitrate 320 --name "ENTERNAMEHERE" --key /home/pi/spotify/spotify-connect-web/spotify_appkey.key
cd /

Hmmm...  with the simple Raspotify method,  I haven't had to do any naming changes.  Without any editing, it ends up looking like this:
raspotify (name) ,  with the name being the moode player device (network?) name.   I have a couple different players with different names,  and it seems handy enough.
Did you have to do the above for it to work at all,  or does doing that give you a better name?

I will be looking into Ravi's method here soon.  For the gapless play goodness alone,  it sounds like a better solution.  But,  I imagine a simpler method is still pretty attractive to the masses who have never typed on a Linux command line before.

Other changes I make are the selecting of the BITRATE=320 audio quality shown earlier,  and setting the starting volume level to something lower than 100%:

Code:

# By default, the volume normalization is enabled, add alternative volume
# arguments here if you'd like, but these should be fine.
#VOLUME_ARGS="--enable-volume-normalisation --linear-volume --initial-volume=100"

Maybe I could write this all up in a procedure for Raspotify,  for those who want simple solutions.

Hi all, sorry but I don't understand how modify the volume args. Were I copy that code? Inside the spotify-connect.sh ? Sintax?

Thanks ...

[grasshopper]

@npetra I'm glad you got it sorted, it is certainly convenient & gapless is a must IMO.
As I have different players in different rooms I just named them according to the room they were in using a single word, just to easily identify the player when selecting it via the Android app.
I don't use Spotify a lot these days, mainly now for listening to new bands I am introduced to or discovering new music. I was frustrated in albums disappearing from the catalogue or one track in an album being unavailable. Frustrating.
Plus the sound on Spotify can be less than stellar.
I tend to just buy flac's from Bandcamp these days, normally less expensive than a CD & obviously there is no need to rip them & tag them etc.

[Tim Curtis]

Bandcamp is incredible.

[DRONE7]

Bandcamp is incredible.

+1

[grasshopper]

+2
Back in the 70's as a child when I collected vinyl I used to enjoy the extras you got from an LP, the accompanying LP sized booklets, posters etc & reading about how the album was made. I never did have a decent turntable, more a "record player" so when CD came out, the sound quality improved (for me) but buying music lost some of its magic in a way, thumbing through a CD sized book didn't feel the same.

So Bandcamp just allows me to conveniently & cost effectively buy music & be listening to it in minutes as I really don't miss having a physical CD anymore.
Plus Bandcamp occasionally has downloads in 24bit flac.

The downside is it's another nail in the coffin of the local record store, we don't have any small independents near us anymore, they're all gone.

[TheOldPresbyope]

Dial back a couple of decades and your local record store would still have listening booths. Mine had 4. Pick out an album that caught your eye and hand it to the guy (at least it was always a guy in my home town) behind the counter. He'd load it on one of the turntables and point to the booth. Last century's "try before you buy".

That was great but many of the artists on BandCamp and elsewhere online would never have made it through the A&R divisions of the record companies to a record release. You'd never even know they existed if you didn't live in a metropolitan area where there were lots of clubs. Even then you'd only get to hear a few.

The bad news now for me is that I have so many streams of music available I'm like Buridan's Ass: the proverbial donkey that starves to death standing between two identical piles of hay because it can't decide which one to eat.

Regards,
Kent

[Tim Curtis]

lol