The LibreElec team created a “Spotify-Connect Kodi addon for LibreElec”, which is basically a wrapper for LibreSpot. It would be cool if OSMC could do something similar and create a similar wrapper for LibreSpot, put it in the OSMC App Store.
The only goal would be to use OSMC as Spotify-Connect receiver. The current solution to achieve this is Raspotify, but as @sebtron noted, since it is not integrated with Kodi, some users will find the experience a bit poor.
Having a Spotify Connect option natively on all OSMC decides would be awesome! Maybe even like AirPlay is already present (no addon or service under MyOSMC needed)
And it would be awesome, if a OSMC Spotify Connect option would allow playback without a premium account… Which the Raspotify option doesn’t allow currently (can anyone explain to me, why?).
You can’t use Spotify without a premium account because I believe API access is needed. We wouldn’t really want to violate their API requirements or terms of use.
It should work just fine on the Vero 4K as I believe it just leverages an ALSA sink.
OK… Well, that was my question. Spotify specifies that there are devices that have Spotify Connect (AVRs mostly) that you can use without a premium account. But there are some (Spotify lists “speakers”) that require a premium account for Spotify Connect usage. So, the Vero 4k would be handled as a “speaker” by Spotify?
Just being curious as it looks like it is technically possible to use Spotify Connect without a premium account. But I don’t know what the technical requirements for that are.
They probably aren’t technical requirements but rather licensing requirements. Due to the open source nature of OSMC this could be tricky to implement.
Agree - also don’t see the point of licensing, as the Spotify connect could be also (legally) integrate in the RPI3.
Personally, not having Spotify connect feature erodes the advantage of the Vero 4k over the RPi3 for me (the latter worked fine for my use case as well, but at least has the Spotify connect feature). I am not saying that the RPi is technically equivalent, but again - it got his job done in my case. If the RPi3 is the only way to get a major service running, it might be worth consideration.
It definitely works on the RPi2 and RPi3. There haven’t been reports of major issues in the HowTo topic or on Raspotify’s and LibreSpot github pages. Personally I noticed difference in playback quality over bluetooth, so I am very happy!
But I am also considering a Vero device in the future since my RPi3 is doing more and more tasks (besides Kodi and Raspotify) like personal cloud via SyncThing (syncing phone camera, pictures, password manager and documents), automated downloads via Flexget, Transmission, Subliminal. And I am looking into Nextcloud (which would definitely be too much for the RPi3 to keep running smoothly).
So it would be very cool if we can get LibreSpot solution for Vero.
I use my RPi 3 with OSMC and Kodi Addon “Spotify” from Marcel Veldt. I can navigate Spotify via KODI GUI or I can stream Spotify from any other device to OSMC/Kodi via this addon. OSMC will show up as available device.
Playback is fully integrated into the OSMC Kodi GUI, it looks exactly like any other local playback for music, including Artist, Album, Title, CoverArt.
I know that add-on, one of my earlier posts here or in the HowTo quotes Marcel in his add-on topic.
But it’s exactly what I do not want: a UI for Spotify on Kodi. Nothing can beat the app itself on your phone (or laptop). OSMC/Kodi only needs to act as a Connect device. Marcel himself recommends the LibreElec for those cases.
I don’t need a GUI for Spotify in Kodi either, but I’d find it interesting to have the Spotify Connect feature show up in the Kodi GUI giving me information about the current playback and maybe letting me stop the Connect playback via Kodi… With the Raspotify option one has to stop Spotify Connect playback via the app first before Kodi can use the sound output again.
