Checking to see if anyone else is having issues w/ Spotify plugin
The spotify plugin just stopped working for me today on Mac Plex 9.3.4. I was wondering if this is something anyone else is experiencing or not. I tried resetting, uninstalling/reinstalling, restarting, etc to no avail. The plugin is almost functional in that I can browse and do pretty much everything except drill down into a playlist or actually play music. If I click a playlist, it just flashes and stays on the same screen and doesn't move into the playlist.
Same here with both macs… Everything else but actually playing music seems to work and can not figure out anything that has changed in setup. Really missing this plugin and any help appreciated.
-Teemu
Same here as well. Has been a while since I last used it, soI can’t say if it recently started or not…
A quick fix that worked for me was to edit the plugin.py file: (creds goes to “WKN”: http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/30363-new-spotify-plugin-release/page__st__20)
Fixed it by adding ‘rating_key = track.name().decode(“utf-8”),’ line as folllows:
key = track.name().decode("utf-8"),<br />
rating_key = track.name().decode("utf-8"),<br />
title = track.name().decode("utf-8"),
in the method "create_track_object"
in the file:
~/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins/Spotify.bundle/Contents/Code/plugin.py
Not sure if it's the right fix, but my Plex Spotify plug-in plays music.
EDIT: Just remember to shut down the Plex Media Server while doing this edit..
Well, this works for me!
Thanks!
But after restarting plex he resets the 'plugin.py' to the original one.. any idee?
Same thing happens for me, after restart it resets the file and obviously spotify won't work. (PMS version 0.9.5.0)
Adding the line of code to plugin.py definitely fixes the problem, but it seems that Plex overwrites the file every time i search a new playlist and then causes the line of code to disappear. I’m not a programmer, so i’m not sure what is going on other than what i’ve observed. as a band-aid, i created a shortcut on my desktop to the folder and manually copy (and re-copy) a version of plugin.py with the added code in. very frustrating. whoever wrote the plug-in, please update soon (or if someone knows how to solve the disappearing line of code problem, please help!).
A simple way to prevent the PMS from overwriting a modified plugin file is to move the plugin from the Plug-ins folder to some other directory (for example CustomizedPlug-ins), then create a symlink from the plugin back to the plugins folder. So on OSX, using the terminal command:
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ln -s /path/to/customized/Spotify.bundle /path/to/Plug-ins/Spotify.bundle<br />
If someone can confirm for me that the above-mentioned fix still works, I'll try to get it added to the official plugin code.
I am having the exact same problem, but I believe the developer has already updated the plugin to include the new code. Atleast, my version of the Spotify plugin.py already has this code. But, alas, my problems persist. I can view the list of my playlist, but cannot open the playlist to view the tracks or play them.
We checked the plugin code and finally came to the conclusion that there was a bug in one of the later versions of the framework. Check the Channel Directory for an updated “Framework” (maybe it’s already downloaded automatically). This has fixed playback for me in the Spotify plugin. However, on my system (Mac PMS + Laika OSX client) the client hangs after 1 song 
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