Spotify Connect with Volumio not working anymore

[gerardenanja]

Hello,

For 3 days now I can no longer play Spotify music via Volumio with the Spotify Plugin. All software is up-to-date. Playing via the Spotify app does not work either. The device is also not displayed in the Spotify app and Spotify says that local network access is required while this permission is set. Reinstalled all software and reset devices.
It concerns a Spotify Family account. Does anyone have an idea what could be wrong?

Kind regards,
Gerard

(iOS, Android, Volumio, Raspberry Pi)

My Question or Issue

[Andrew-U]

I have a similar problem too since 3 days. Volumio plugin  is enabled and authorised with Spotify. I've also verified in my Spotify account that the 3rd party Volumio app had been authorised. 

I can see my personal playlist but unable to play anything. Similarly, the Volumio device does not show up on the list of devices while playing music within Spotify.

[gerardenanja]

Thanks for your response! Do you also have a Family Premium account? It appears that Spotify does not treat this as a premium account so you cannot access your local devices on the network.
Do you have any idea where you could ask this at Spotify?

Kind regards, Gerard

[pAhonen]

Hi, same thing here, I have two Volumio boxes and both of them suddenly disappeared from Spotify's available devices.
I have rebooted both devices and also logged off and reauthorized the Spotify plugins.

Meanwhile, my Philips smartTV (Android) shows up in the devices list.

As it happens, I also got a Family Premium, not sure it has anything to do with this problem though.

[Andrew-U]

Just to confirm, I have a Spotify Premium account

[nlwouter]

Good i found this. Been trying everything. Spotify connect just not working on my volumio device. 

[gerardenanja]

If this continues for a long time, I am considering switching to YouTube Music. This plug-in for Volumio also works a lot more stable than the Spotify plug-in.

Anyone have any other tips?

[Renem1983]

Hi, 
I have a the same issue, also since a day or 3. I do see the volumio speakers but I can't connect to them. I can connect to other devices but not to the volumio speakers. I would be nice to hear something from spotify.

[angri313]

Hello

My spotify on several volumios is also not working anymore.

The actual Playlists are shown, but not able to play.

I dont have time at the moment for a long try and error...

My setup:

Volumio V 3.742 on raspi 4

FusionDSP V 1.054

Spotify V 4.1.0

Best regards 

Andreas

[Andrew-U]

I've resolved the problem by a completely fresh install.  Everything now working as it should.  However, I've disabled the auto-update to ensure I'm now in control of when the device is updated.  Thus, making a backup beforehand.

I installed the Config Backup-Recovery Plugin. Sounded like a great idea.  The backup created a tar-zip file as expected.  However, the restore crashed.  I tried the restore a couple of times before giving up.  Therefore, don't rely on Backup-Restore plugin.

I only use Volumio for Spotify streaming and for streaming from a local NAS device.  I have no data on my Raspberry Pi Volumio device.  Therefore, all I needed was to configure the Volumio as before.  

1. Via Volumio's web browser interface.  Browse through all config screens and take a screenshot.
2. Re-install Volumio using the download image available at https://volumio.com/get-started/.  With a Raspberry Pi, that just means re-writing the SD-Card (simple).
3. Attach screen/keyboard/ethernet cable and boot the Volumio device.
4. At the prompt, login as volumio (pass: volumio) and run the command ifconfig to verify the ip-address
5. Enter the ip-address into any browser on the same network. 
6. Configure Volumio using the same config from the screenshots taken in step 1.
7. Reboot
8. Install Spotify plugin, enable and authorise it with Spotify
9 Reboot again

Wait a minute or two for things to settle down and authorisation to take place. Hopefully, at should all work now.  It certainly did for me.

I tried everything to try and fix the problem. Spending hours trying various different previous versions of the Spotify plug-in together with all other config combinations.  Nothing worked for me.  However, a complete install worked and I should have done this at the beginning to save myself hours of needless work.  I still don't know really where the issue lies. Whether it's with Volumio or with Spotify. 

[Andrew-U]

Don't give up, check my resolution below

[Andrew-U]

Hi Gerard.  Please check my resolution below.  I hope it works for you.

[Saikot]

Same problem here 3 days ago

[ElTinel]

I habe the sam problem. No workaroumd available withoit reinstall?

[pAhonen]

Hi, looks like I got this fixed without reinstall.
This works at least for me:

1:  ssh to volumio box
2:  in the file /etc/hosts there are two entrys for spotify.com, remove or comment them out
3:  disable and then re-enable spotify plugin

Now the volumio should reappear on Spotify, if not then

4: uninstall and reinstall the Spotify plugin

I got the idea while reading this thread on Volumio forums:
https://community.volumio.com/t/volumio-3-742-spotify-plugin-4-10-bugs/68418/11

Hope this helps you too!

[gerardenanja]

Thanks for the suggestions. Removing the spotify lines in the hosts file of the player works for me.

For the Windows users:

- open de page http://volumio.local/dev or http://[your player name].local/devin your browser
- click on de 'ENABLE' button right under de header 'SSH'
- download PuTTY at https://putty.org/
- install PuTTY
- open PuTTY
- enter 'Volumio' or your players name into the textbox under 'Host Name (Or IP address)' and click 'Open'
- login as 'volumio' with password 'volumio'
- enter 'nano /etc/hosts' en confirm with enter
- remove the lines 104.199.65.124 ap-gew4.spotify.com or prefix the lines with '#'
- use ctrl+o to save the changes
- use ctrl+x to exit the editor
- enter 'exit' to end the ssh connection
- restart the spotify plug-in

[angri313]

Thanks a lot!

This workaroung does it without reinstall the plugin.

[ElTinel]

Hi, great, this works! Thanks a lot.

[pAhonen]

Also, Volumio just released an updated version of the Spotify plugin, v4.1.1.
Updating to this should also fix the problem and remove those extra lines from /etc/hosts.

[marknightingale]

Thanks for the fix - I was getting ready to throw the thing out of the window