Install support for Spotify

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Hi,

I am getting a bit confused when googling howto install support for Spotify to Mopidy.

Maybe I am doing wrong but as I understand from GitHub - mopidy/mopidy-spotify: Mopidy extension for playing music from Spotify I should install run “cargo build --package gst-plugin-spotify --release” (or “cargo build --package gst-plugin-spotify --release -j1”).

When I run that it stops at following point:
//
Skipping git submodule https://github.com/gtk-rs/gir due to update strategy in .gitmodules
Skipping git submodule https://github.com/gtk-rs/gir-files due to update strategy in .gitmodules
Compiling librespot-protocol v0.4.2
Compiling glib v0.20.0 (GitHub - gtk-rs/gtk-rs-core: Rust bindings for GNOME libraries)
Compiling librespot-core v0.4.2
Compiling librespot-metadata v0.4.2
^C Building [======================> ] 277/289: librespot-core, glib, librespot-protocol, librespot-metadata
blossa@server:~/gst-plugins-rs $
//

I am very new to cargo and I do not know what kind of logs you might want.

Can someone point me into right direction for troubleshoot more? Any other tips?

Regards, Anders

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Your problem sounds exactly like cargo build of gst-plugin-spotify stuck at 288/298 · Issue #372 · mopidy/mopidy-spotify · GitHub

If you are trying to compile on a slow/limited machine (like a pi) then yes, you need to limit the threads.

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I agree that it sounds exactly like that. Thanks! (I wonder why I did not find that post… :smiley: )

I have tried using the “… -j 1” flag. “–jobs 1” should be the same, but I will try.
I have Pi3 and I run Bookworm on it. I run the cargo-command via SSH.

Update:
I tried and after about 5 minutes atleast I got an error message:
//
Skipping git submodule https://github.com/gtk-rs/gir-files due to update strategy in .gitmodules
Compiling librespot-protocol v0.4.2
error: could not compile librespot-protocol (lib)

Caused by:
process didn’t exit successfully: /home/blossa/.rustup/toolchains/stable-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/rustc --crate-name librespot_protocol --edition=2018 /home/blossa/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-6f17d22bba15001f/librespot-protocol-0.4.2/src/lib.rs --error-format=json --json=diagnostic-rendered-ansi,artifacts,future-incompat --diagnostic-width=222 --crate-type lib --emit=dep-info,metadata,link -C opt-level=3 -C debuginfo=2 -C metadata=76ba2a514038c62a -C extra-filename=-76ba2a514038c62a --out-dir /home/blossa/gst-plugins-rs/target/release/deps -L dependency=/home/blossa/gst-plugins-rs/target/release/deps --extern protobuf=/home/blossa/gst-plugins-rs/target/release/deps/libprotobuf-bcff61ed037366da.rmeta --cap-lints allow (signal: 9, SIGKILL: kill)
//

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Killed probably due to memory exhaustion. It’s pretty painful trying to build on a pi 3.

Instead, try grabbing the armhf package at https://github.com/kingosticks/gst-plugins-rs-build/releases/tag/untagged-9fcc04bf4f312d80c80e

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I did not have the energy to build from source-code as it was so long time ago I did that (20 years?). I installed one of the debs and it worked directly.
I got warning “mopidy Failed to lookup ‘spotify:directory’: Could not parse ‘spotify:directory’ as a Spotify URI”, but restarting server twice solved that.

Thank you!!!

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