# No sound when using Spotify

**URL:** <https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/no-sound-when-using-spotify/6135>\
**Category:** Misc\
**Created:** [June 21, 2025, 4:13pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/no-sound-when-using-spotify/6135 "2025-06-21T16:13:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![blossa69](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/blossa69/32/2481_2.png) [@blossa69](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/blossa69)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2025, 4:13pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/no-sound-when-using-spotify/6135/1 "2025-06-21T16:13:00Z")

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Hi,

I have a slow project wich I havn’t worked with for about a year. This weekend I started a bit again.

I have a Raspberry Pi 3. I can play local files in Modipy and this command gives sound in headphones:

> gst-launch-1.0 audiotestsrc ! audioresample ! alsasink

I feel I have managed to install what I need, but I am not sure.  
If I run gst-inspect for alsasink, i get a long list and this is part of it:

> server:~ $ gst-inspect-1.0 alsasink  
> Factory Details:  
> Rank primary (256)  
> Long-name Audio sink (ALSA)  
> Klass Sink/Audio  
> Description Output to a sound card via ALSA  
> Author Wim Taymans [wim@fluendo.com](mailto:wim@fluendo.com)  
> Documentation [alsasink](https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/alsa/alsasink.html)  
> Plugin Details:  
> Name alsa  
> Description ALSA plugin library  
> Filename /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0/libgstalsa.so  
> Version 1.22.0  
> License LGPL  
> Source module gst-plugins-base  
> Documentation [alsa](https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/alsa/)  
> Source release date 2023-01-23  
> Binary package GStreamer Base Plugins (Debian)  
> Origin URL [gst-plugins-base1.0 - Debian Package Tracker](https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gst-plugins-base1.0)  
> GObject  
> ±—GInitiallyUnowned  
> ±—GstObject  
> ±—GstElement  
> ±—GstBaseSink  
> ±—GstAudioBaseSink  
> ±—GstAudioSink  
> ±—GstAlsaSink  
> Pad Templates:  
> SINK template: ‘sink’  
> Availability: Always

If I run gst-inspect for pulsesink, I get the feeling that that also is installed:

> server:~ $ gst-inspect-1.0 pulsesink  
> Factory Details:  
> Rank primary + 10 (266)  
> Long-name PulseAudio Audio Sink  
> Klass Sink/Audio  
> Description Plays audio to a PulseAudio server  
> Author Lennart Poettering  
> Documentation [pulsesink](https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/pulseaudio/pulsesink.html)  
> Plugin Details:  
> Name pulseaudio  
> Description PulseAudio plugin library  
> Filename /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0/libgstpulseaudio.so  
> Version 1.22.0  
> License LGPL  
> Source module gst-plugins-good  
> Documentation [pulseaudio](https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/pulseaudio/)  
> Source release date 2023-01-23  
> Binary package GStreamer Good Plugins (Debian)  
> Origin URL [gst-plugins-good1.0 - Debian Package Tracker](https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gst-plugins-good1.0)  
> GObject  
> ±—GInitiallyUnowned  
> ±—GstObject  
> ±—GstElement  
> ±—GstBaseSink  
> ±—GstAudioBaseSink  
> ±—GstPulseSink  
> Implemented Interfaces:  
> GstStreamVolume

When I try Spotify, I get logged and I can see my saved playlists. I can navigate around, but play does not work… I get no sound. The elapsed time for a song starts counting, but it seem to never stop.

This is the error message when I try to play song from Spotify:

> …  
> DEBUG 2025-06-21 17:27:09,510 [770:SoftwareMixer-1 (\_actor\_loop)] mopidy.mixer  
> Mixer event: volume\_changed(volume=100)  
> DEBUG 2025-06-21 17:27:09,512 [770:SoftwareMixer-1 (\_actor\_loop)] mopidy.listener  
> Sending volume\_changed to MixerListener: {‘volume’: 100}  
> 0:00:46.554804287 770 0x7fb002b490 WARN pulse pulsesink.c:616:gst\_pulseringbuffer\_open\_device: error: Failed to connect: Connection refused  
> 0:00:46.559122255 770 0x7fb002b490 WARN uridecodebin gsturidecodebin.c:1487:gen\_source\_element: error: No URI handler implemented for “spotify”.  
> DEBUG 2025-06-21 17:27:09,522 [770:MainThread] mopidy.audio.gst  
> Got missing-plugin bus message: description=‘SPOTIFY protocol source’  
> DEBUG 2025-06-21 17:27:09,523 [770:Audio-2 (\_actor\_loop)] mopidy.audio.gst  
> Changing state to GST\_STATE\_PLAYING: result=GST\_STATE\_CHANGE\_FAILURE  
> WARNING 2025-06-21 17:27:09,523 [770:MainThread] mopidy.audio.actor  
> Could not find a SPOTIFY protocol source to handle media.  
> WARNING 2025-06-21 17:27:09,524 [770:Audio-2 (\_actor\_loop)] mopidy.audio.actor  
> Setting GStreamer state to GST\_STATE\_PLAYING failed  
> WARNING 2025-06-21 17:27:09,526 [770:Core-8 (\_actor\_loop)] mopidy.core.tracklist  
> Track is not playable: spotify:track:0lhwqtb4BaFnC9ydl0VSKV  
> ERROR 2025-06-21 17:27:09,527 [770:MainThread] mopidy.audio.gst  
> GStreamer error: No URI handler implemented for “spotify”.  
> DEBUG 2025-06-21 17:27:09,528 [770:Core-8 (\_actor\_loop)] mopidy.listener  
> Sending volume\_changed to CoreListener: {‘volume’: 100}  
> …

Here is part of my configuration:

> server:~ $ sudo mopidyctl config  
> Running “/usr/bin/mopidy --config /usr/share/mopidy/conf.d:/etc/mopidy/mopidy.conf config” as user mopidy  
> [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 = alsasink  
> buffer\_time =  
> [proxy]  
> scheme =  
> hostname =  
> port =  
> username =  
> password =  
> [alsamixer]  
> enabled = true  
> card = 0  
> control = Master  
> min\_volume = 0  
> max\_volume = 100  
> volume\_scale = cubic  
> [spotify]  
> enabled = true  
> …

And when I run alsamixer, it looks fine to me:

 ![Screenshot from 2025-06-21 18-18-05](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/mopidy/original/2X/5/5971acedd3cad21bfa6cbf21cdc41e8c2aa801a4.png)

So now I wonder what I have mixed up?

Also, shall I continue using alsa or shall I go for pulse instead? (I have no experience of pulse)

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**Author:** ![blossa69](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/blossa69/32/2481_2.png) [@blossa69](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/blossa69)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2025, 7:34pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/no-sound-when-using-spotify/6135/2 "2025-06-21T19:34:13Z")

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I installed pulseaudio instead. Now it is working.

Thread can be closed.

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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:** [June 21, 2025, 11:00pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/no-sound-when-using-spotify/6135/3 "2025-06-21T23:00:34Z")

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Perhaps you did something else too because installing pulse isn’t the answer to the error in your log

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**Author:** ![system](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/system/32/1_2.png) [@system](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2025, 11:01am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/no-sound-when-using-spotify/6135/4 "2025-12-21T11:01:20Z")

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