# Mopidy-Spotify Installed, but isn't started (Raspbian Buster)

**URL:** <https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/mopidy-spotify-installed-but-isnt-started-raspbian-buster/3728>\
**Category:** Misc\
**Created:** [January 24, 2020, 5:18am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/mopidy-spotify-installed-but-isnt-started-raspbian-buster/3728 "2020-01-24T05:18:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![at565](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df788c/32.png) [@at565](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/at565)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2020, 5:18am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/mopidy-spotify-installed-but-isnt-started-raspbian-buster/3728/1 "2020-01-24T05:18:08Z")

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As the title suggests, I’ve installed mopidy-spotify and I can get mopidy up and running. I’ve installed Mopify, which I can access and can connect to Spotify, pulling in all my playlists etc. In Mopify, if I hit Play on anything, nothing happens.

Trying Iris, I get a warning in the Spotify settings:

**_Mopidy-Spotify_ extension is not running - you will not be able to play any Spotify tracks**

From running ‘mopidy config’ it doesn’t look like mopidy-spotify is being loaded at all, based on the output when I execute mopidy:

INFO Starting Mopidy 2.3.1  
INFO Loading config from builtin defaults  
INFO Loading config from /home/pi/.config/mopidy/mopidy.conf  
INFO Loading config from command line options  
INFO Enabled extensions: mopify, iris, mpd, http, m3u, softwaremixer, file, local-images, local, local-sqlite  
INFO Disabled extensions: stream

Can anyone spot what I’m missing? Any help would be appreciated! Here’s my config:

[core]  
cache\_dir = /var/cache/mopidy  
config\_dir = /etc/mopidy  
data\_dir = /var/lib/mopidy  
max\_tracklist\_length = 10000  
restore\_state = false

[logging]  
verbosity = 0  
format = %(levelname)-8s [%(threadName)s] %(name)s %(message)s  
color = false  
config\_file =

[audio]  
mixer = software  
mixer\_volume =  
output = autoaudiosink  
buffer\_time =

[proxy]  
scheme =  
hostname =  
port =  
username =  
password =

[file]  
enabled = true  
media\_dirs =  
/disks/1TBbackup/  
excluded\_file\_extensions =  
.directory  
.html  
.jpeg  
.jpg  
.log  
.nfo  
.pdf  
.png  
.txt  
.zip  
show\_dotfiles = false  
follow\_symlinks = false  
metadata\_timeout = 1000

[http]  
enabled = true  
hostname = ::  
port = 6680  
zeroconf = Mopidy HTTP server on $hostname  
allowed\_origins =  
csrf\_protection = true  
default\_app = mopidy

[m3u]  
enabled = true  
base\_dir =  
default\_encoding = latin-1  
default\_extension = .m3u8  
playlists\_dir =

[softwaremixer]  
enabled = true

[stream]  
enabled = false ; Extension disabled by user config.

[spotify]  
enabled = true  
username = gunforhire  
password = \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*  
client\_id = 9cf9360e-6fee-40b1-9c54-64950baabe8a  
client\_secret = \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*  
bitrate = 320  
volume\_normalization = true  
private\_session = false  
timeout = 10  
allow\_cache = true  
allow\_network = true  
allow\_playlists = true  
search\_album\_count = 20  
search\_artist\_count = 10  
search\_track\_count = 50  
toplist\_countries =  
CA

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**Author:** ![kingosticks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/858c86/32.png) [@kingosticks](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/kingosticks)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2020, 8:40am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/mopidy-spotify-installed-but-isnt-started-raspbian-buster/3728/2 "2020-01-24T08:40:51Z")

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`sudo mopidyctl deps` shows what extensions are installed, it’s described at [http://docs.mopidy.com/en/latest/troubleshooting/](http://docs.mopidy.com/en/latest/troubleshooting/).

Did you install from [apt.mopidy.com](http://apt.mopidy.com) or some other method?

There is also information in the docs about running as a service. The config you’ve provided looks like a service config, but you’ve executed mopidy from the terminal using your normal user i.e. **not** running the system service.

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**Author:** ![kingosticks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/858c86/32.png) [@kingosticks](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/kingosticks)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2020, 9:34am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/mopidy-spotify-installed-but-isnt-started-raspbian-buster/3728/3 "2020-01-24T09:34:39Z")

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Now I’ve woken up a bit more I can maybe be clearer.

The latest version of Mopidy from [apt.mopidy.com](http://apt.mopidy.com) is Mopidy version 3.x. _It requires Python 3.7+_.

The Mopidy-Iris extension is _not yet compatible with Python 3 and cannot be used with Mopidy v3.x._

When running the Mopidy service you’ll be running Mopidy from apt. `sudo mopidyctl deps` will show you the compatible extensions you have available. If you have installed Mopidy-spotify then it’ll be listed there. If you see Python 3 versions of Mopidy and it’s extensions then you will **not** see Iris listed there (until the new Python 3 verison is released, hopefully soon).

When running Mopidy in the terminal, in the way you have demonstrated, you have run an old Python 2 version (possibly installed from pip). That old version will see a compatible version of Iris but it won’t see any of the Python 3 extensions you installed from apt. `mopidy deps` will show the difference.

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**Author:** ![morithil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/morithil/32/1889_2.png) [@morithil](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/morithil)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 1:35am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/mopidy-spotify-installed-but-isnt-started-raspbian-buster/3728/4 "2020-12-31T01:35:33Z")

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So the Mopidy-Spotify extension does not work with the latest version of Iris currently?

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**Author:** ![Steve\_Lambert](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/steve_lambert/32/1149_2.png) [@Steve\_Lambert](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/Steve_Lambert)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 6:48am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/mopidy-spotify-installed-but-isnt-started-raspbian-buster/3728/5 "2020-12-31T06:48:24Z")

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This is 11 months old - I’m pretty sure it’s out of date and they both work together now.

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**Author:** ![jjok](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/jjok/32/448_2.png) [@jjok](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/jjok)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 10:45am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/mopidy-spotify-installed-but-isnt-started-raspbian-buster/3728/6 "2021-01-02T10:45:39Z")

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Closed on January 2, 2021, 10:45am UTC