Spotify

[dj_gerbil]

I read on the XBMC forums that people have had success using the Addon with a VPN but I can't comment as it works out of the box for me, but then I'm in the UK.

[newphreak]

Would anybody be kind enough to create a screenshot or two of how this works? I'm curious yet lazy today hehe

[dj_gerbil]

Certainly can.

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[Tompen]

I have created a libspotify package for openelec and have spotify running on a OpenElec i386 Generic build based on Eden. I guess this also works with x86_64 but have not tested. Due to legal license mismatch between spotify and gpl, a compiled build can not be released. If you want a source code patch so that you can compile an openelect release with spotify support, let me know and I will upload. All info on how-to compile is available here on this forum. My build is a direct port from spotyxbmc2 that was created by Akezeke, many thanks to him.

Note: It is mandatory to turn off the automatic update feature in openelect. Whenever I want to update to a newer version, I need to compile a new build.

Note: A valid, paid premium spotify account is needed, the free accounts does not work.

[Cyclopsq]

Hi Tompen,

In this case it becomes time to subscribe to the payed version... A working Spotify on XBMC was always the minimum demand to take it.

Can you please upload the source so I may try it?
Maybe you can post me (PM) the compiled version? So weird that Spotify limits itself BTW.

Tnx a lot for developing and posting!

Regards,

Harmen

[Tompen]

I have integrated SpotyXBMC2 with OpenELEC.
Spotyxbmc2 was made by akezeke. It adds Spotify content to the XBMC music section.

Due to legal license mismatch between spotify and gpl, compiled builds of SpotyXBMC can not be released. When using SpotyXBMC, users need to compile OpenELEC with integrated spotify support from source code. Other alternatives (not discussed here) that brings spotify into XBMC is to use the Spotimc addon or the XSqueeze addon.

A valid, paid spotify premium account is needed.

A video showing most of the features in SpotyXBMC2
here.

Features:

• Starred tracks, albums and artists will show up in the songs, albums and artists sections together with your local music.
  
• Spotify playlists shows up in the playlist section.
  
• The normal music search will return both local music and also spotify search results.
  
• Top 100 spotify lists with artists, albums and tracks is available in the top 100 section.
  
• Modifying playlists and star/unstar items in the normal spotify program will result in updated lists also in XBMC.
  
• Navigate to the album artist from an album or to the artist or album from a track using the context menu.
  
• Star/unstar albums and tracks from within XBMC using the context menu.
  
• Browsing artist albums will provide a "similar artists" folder with spotify similar artists.
  
• Multi-disc albums are split up into separate albums with suffix "disc #".
  
• The settings is changed from within a built-in addon.
  
• Five spotify "radio stations" is provided, visit the settings to set name, years and genres for your desired music.
  
• Artist fanart is displayed from HTBackdrops in near realtime
  

If you like any of the above, you can buy akezeke a beer Donate

Missing Features:

• Creating and modify playlists, adding spotify tracks to playlists
  
• The year and genre nodes will not lead to any spotify items yet.
  

To read the how-to instructions in this post, you must login to this forum.

Preparation: To build OpenELEC from source code you need to use Linux. In my Windows pc, I installed Linux in a Virtualbox virtual machine using the Debian businesscard install cd. I have heard Ubuntu Linux also works. In Linux, I installed the required software using the following command:

Code:

sudo apt-get install build-essential git-core g++ nasm flex bison libxml-parser-perl gawk autopoint gperf autoconf automake m4 cvs libtool byacc texinfo gettext zlib1g-dev libncurses5-dev make bzip2 zip unzip xsltproc

You also need to have java installed.
A detailed installation instruction for debian linux in virtualbox is attached to a post in this thread. The instruction does not show a "perfect" installation, just a minimal, very basic Debian installation that can be used to compile OpenELEC.

Building OpenElec with Spotify, needed steps:

1) Spotify API key
Get your own spotify application key from http://developer.spotify.com/en/libspotify/application-key
Click on c-code and copy the content to a new file. Filename must be: appkey.h

In your linux pc/virtual machine, navigate to an empty folder. Put your appkey.h file into this folder.
(appkey.h should be located in the directory directly above/outside your git repository)

If you have a facebook spotify account, but can´t login to get your spotify API-key, look here.

2) Get OpenELEC source code
From your empty folder that only contains the appkey.h file, do these commands:

Code:

git clone git://github.com/OpenELEC/OpenELEC.tv.git

Code:

cd OpenELEC.tv

3) Get the spotyxbmc2 feature

Code:

git remote add openelec_spotyxbmc2 git://github.com/tompen-/OpenELEC.tv.git

Code:

git fetch openelec_spotyxbmc2

Only if you want to compile OpenELEC ver 2.0.0 XBMC-EDEN, do the below two commands:
( depending on the installed version of git, you do not need the "--no-edit" )

Code:

git checkout -b stable2.0 tags/2.0.0
git merge --no-edit 1993323

Only if you want to compile OpenELEC ver 3.0.0 XBMC-FRODO, do the below two commands:
( depending on the installed version of git, you do not need the "--no-edit" )

Code:

git checkout -b stable3.0 tags/3.0.0
git merge --no-edit 746a0ef

Only if you want to compile latest OpenELEC, XBMC nightly-build, do the below command:
NOTE: If you want to build OpenELEC ver 2.0.0 XBMC-EDEN or ver 3.0.0 XBMC-FRODO, do not perform this command:

Code:

git pull --no-edit openelec_spotyxbmc2 master

( depending on the installed version of git, you do not need the "--no-edit" )

Optional:
Before you start a time-consuming compile you can verify that the above commands completed OK.
git status should report: "working directory clean"

Code:

git status

git log --grep=spotify should give you a few pages of output regarding various spotify stuff that you do not need to read.
This is only to confirm that you have downloaded the spotify integration. If there is no output, there is a problem with above commands. (you exit from the text with Q button)

Code:

git log --grep=spotify

4) Compile (this takes approx 8 hours)
Note: I have only tested the generic build, hopefully others also work.

To build a Generic build (32bit):

Code:

PROJECT=Generic ARCH=i386 make release

To build an Intel build (32bit):

Code:

PROJECT=Intel ARCH=i386 make release

To build an Intel build (64bit):

Code:

PROJECT=Intel ARCH=x86_64 make release

To build an Apple TV build (32bit): (users report Apple TV builds does not work)

Code:

PROJECT=ATV ARCH=i386 make release

To build an ION build (64bit):

Code:

PROJECT=ION ARCH=x86_64 make release

To build a Fusion build (64bit):For Fusion builds with OpenELEC nightly build, read this.

Code:

PROJECT=Fusion ARCH=x86_64 make release

To build an Xtreamer Ultra TV build (64bit):

Code:

PROJECT=Ultra ARCH=x86_64 make release

To build a Raspberry Pi build (also read this):
Lots of thanks to kernevil, he made the spotyxbmc2 port for Raspberry Pi

Code:

PROJECT=RPi ARCH=arm make release

To build an Arctic-MC001 build (64bit):

Code:

PROJECT=ARCTIC_MC ARCH=x86_64 make release

If you're not sure which build you need, look here:
Build problems: This forum thread can be good to read

5) Access the compiled files

Code:

cd target
ls -lia

6) Instructions to manually update your existing OpenElec usbkey are here or here.

[size=3]Note:
Because OpenELEC ver 2.0 is based on xbmc Eden, if you upgrade from OpenELEC ver 1.xx (XBMC Dharma) the xbmc database will be updated. You can probably not downgrade to Dharma again. I think it is a good idea to try this on another usbkey. OpenELEC 3.0 is based on Frodo, so this recommendation also apply for users upgrading from OpenELEC 2.0 to OpenELEC 3.0. Likely it also applies for anyone upgrading from a previous XBMC version to a Gotham nightly build.

Note2:
It is a good idea to disable the OpenELEC automatic version update feature. If not, your custom built OpenELEC with spotify support might get replaced by the next normal OpenELEC release.

For any spotify + xbmc questions, I recommend looking at this forum thread:

Some comments on the source code:
This is an integration of spotyxbmc2 made by akezeke. His source code is located here.

Before compiling OpenELEC, you can enable/disable support for spotify in the project/XXXXX/options file. If you change spotify yes/no in that file, before compiling again you need to run the following command from the OpenELEC.tv folder:

Code:

rm -rf build*/xbmc* build*/libspotify* build*/.stamps/xbmc* build*/.stamps/libspotify*

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This product uses SPOTIFY® CORE but is not endorsed, certified or otherwise approved in any way by Spotify. Spotify is the registered trade mark of the Spotify Group.

[onderduiker]

Thanks for your post Tompen
I started to follow your post.
No errors before compiling.
But while compiling I get some errors about directories not found.
Then it quits.
Anyone any idea ?

/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 m4/ax_very_nice.m4 m4/ax_warning_default_aclocaldir.m4 m4/ax_warning_default_pkgconfig.m4 m4/ax_wint_t.m4 m4/ax_with_apxs.m4 m4/ax_with_build_path.m4 m4/ax_with_curses.m4 m4/ax_with_curses_extra.m4 m4/ax_with_dmalloc.m4 m4/ax_with_mpatrol.m4 m4/ax_with_prog.m4 m4/ax_xercesc.m4 m4/ax_xtra_classpath.m4 '/home/walter/Documents/OpenELEC.tv/build.-generic.i386-devel/toolchain/i686-openelec-linux-gnu/sysroot/usr/share/aclocal'
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/walter/Documents/OpenELEC.tv/build.-generic.i386-devel/autoconf-archive-2011.09.17'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/walter/Documents/OpenELEC.tv/build.-generic.i386-devel/autoconf-archive-2011.09.17'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/walter/Documents/OpenELEC.tv/build.-generic.i386-devel/autoconf-archive-2011.09.17'
Information: no *.so libs found
Information: no *.so.[0-9]* libs found
find: `/home/walter/Documents/OpenELEC.tv/build.-generic.i386-devel/toolchain/i686-openelec-linux-gnu/sysroot/usr/lib/': No such file or directory
sed: can't read /home/walter/Documents/OpenELEC.tv/projects/generic/options: No such file or directory
sed: can't read /home/walter/Documents/OpenELEC.tv/projects/generic/options: No such file or directory
GET expat
/expat-2.0.1.tar.bz2: Scheme missing.
md5sum: sources/expat/expat-2.0.1.tar.bz2: No such file or directory
make: bbcode.txt done insert_posts.sh mybb_posts.csv mybb_posts.sql new newnew oej34_kunena_messages.csv oej34_kunena_messages_text.csv oej34_kunena_messages_text.sql oej34_kunena_users_banned.csv oej34_kunena_users.csv oej34_users.csv old openelecj34prod.sql posts.sh replace.sh table_posts test.csv test.txt update_sample.sql [system] Error 1

[Tompen]

The command you used to start the compile have a small error.
When compiling Generic project, the project name is: Generic
It is not: generic

[onderduiker]

Thanks very much for your reply.
I try again with your suggestions.

[onderduiker]

Still struggling.
I looked manually and can't find the file/dir in the ftp dir.
I am afraid I need more time for this "compiling thing" :unsure:
We really need a plugin for spotify
Thanks for the help Tompen.


PROJECT=Generic ARCH=i386 make
.
./scripts/image
INSTALL eglibc
INSTALL timezone-data
INSTALL gcc-final
BUILD linux
GET pciutils
--2011-11-20 10:37:08-- http://ftp.ftp.pgpi.com/linux/kernel/pub....7.tar.bz2
=> `sources/pciutils/pciutils-3.1.7.tar.bz2'
Resolving http://ftp.pgpi.com... 128.39.3.170, 2001:700:0:12e::f70
Connecting to http://ftp.pgpi.com|128.39.3.170|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD (1) /linux/kernel/pub/software/utils/pciutils ...
No such directory `linux/kernel/pub/software/utils/pciutils'.