Squeezebox and Airport Express with Spotify

Hi

Thought I'd start a new thread on this.

Have been trying to get the SC software with the S'box working with Spotify this afternoon - to complete failure.

Anyone actually managed it yet?

 

I think the answer is no, not yet! There's a lot of jumping up and down and the Spotify people are saying 'we're working on it' a lot, but nothing easy just yet!

If you fancy a whirl around the Windows maypole and don't mind getting your hands dirty and your brain fried, you can always have a look at this :

http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/topics/can_you_stream_to_a_squeezebox

Once on the page do a ctrl-f and search for - Magnus replied 3 months ago -. It sounds as though this will work if you can follow what is happening, which is basically looping the spotify sound to another server and then pushing that out to the Squeezy. Sounds hideous

And no, I haven't tried it.

And no, I'm not going too either. Life's far too short.

 

I had a bash, and quickly gave up.

It's a REAL minefield isn't it?

Hopefully Logitech will come up with a nice fix

 

Yeah, it's a real dogs dinner at the moment. We do seem to be coming off second-best with the more interesting stuff. As you say, hopefully between the two of them, (Spotify and Logitech), something will happen. I want my Pandora back!

 

yeah, me too on Pandora.

'shitty end of the stick' at the moment


Had an idea just now though.

I could run an interconnect from my (wireless) laptop to my pre-amp - voila.

Then I thought ''hey, is there such a thing as a wireless RCA/phono jack''? - I could then stream from the laptop through a gadget.

Haven't found one yet though..

 

I tried spotify for a while but decided that the sound quality was pants. I tend to amuse myself with loads of the free internet radio stations like Limbik Frequencies instead.

 

I'm finding the combination of avatars in this thread particularly amusing....Fight!

 

I dont have a squeeze box YET but this article may help : -

From Spotify user group.

Magnus replied 3 months ago
Ok, I will try to explain how I set up my system step-by-step. When I started setting this up I was quite confused by what icecast really is, so let me start by explaining this a little. As I have now understood it, icecast is just the broadcast server, but it turns out that it can not send any audio by itself - it needs another program to encode the stream and provide it, and that is the purpose of the edcast program that we need to install as well.

Anyway, here goes:

1. Download and install the Windows version of Icecast2 from www.icecast.org on the PC that you use for running Spotify. This does not have to be the same computer that are running the Squeezecenter, I use a Netgear NAS box for that.

2. Start the icecast GUI using the "Icecast2 Version 2.x" shortcut on your start menu, and select the Edit Configuration menu option. If your icecast server will be available outside the firewall you should change the default "hackme" passwords to something a bit more secure. (I only use it on my own LAN so I left them at the default values.) The default port number is 8000, I did not change that either.

3. Start the server. (It can be configured to start as soon as Windows starts which is convenient.)

4. Download and install Edcast Standalone 3.1.21 from http://www.oddsock.org/tools/edcast/.

5. Due to licensing issues edcast is not allowed to redistribute the LAME encoder to be able to encode mp3 streams, so you have to get it separately. It is only officially distributed as source code, but compiled Windows binaries can easily be found, for example from http://www.free-codecs.com/download/L.... Extract the zip archive (I think I used the lame3.98.2.zip one) to C:\Program Files\edcast.

6. Start edcast and click Add Encoder, right-click the newly created encoder and select Configure. Change the encoder type to "MP3 Lame", server ip "localhost", server port 8000, and the encoder password to the one you set in step 2 above. Click Ok to close the config dialog, and then Connect to start streaming to the icecast server.

7. If everything is working properly, edcast is now encoding whatever sound that is entering the soundcard and streaming it live. Since we want the music from Spotify to stream, we need to make sure that it is looped back using the soundcard. This can differ somewhat depending on Windows version and your sound hardware. On my system, I can bring up the standard Windows volume control, select Properties from the Options menu and select Recording. Make sure that the source called "Mixer" is included in the checked items, click Ok to bring up the recording control, and make sure that the "Mixer" is selected as recording source.

8. Start Spotify and start playing some music. Mute the speakers on the PC if you like, since the purpose of all this is to use your Squeezebox to play it.

9. Go back to edcast and click the Peak Meter. If things are working, you will see a meter moving. Adjust the volume by dragging the slider or using the recording control if you still have it open.

10. On the squeezebox (or using the Squeezecenter web interface which is more convenient), go to Internet Radio and Tune in URL, and enter the following URL, but change the IP address to whatever your computer is called you your network: http://192.168.0.3:8000/stream.m3u (You can of course store this as a Favorite.)

11. You should now hear the Spotify music on the Squeezebox!

12. To make it work even cooler, you can go into edcast and click the Edit button at the top to configure the metadata for your radio station. I set the Metadata field to "Spotify" and checked the "Grab Metadata From Window Title" and set the Window Class to SpotifyMainWindow. This will make edcast fetch the current artist and song title from the Spotify window and send it as metadata so that it displays on the Squeezebox's display - how cool is that.

Quite a lot of steps, but it works great once you complete them all, so good luck!

 

they fought, I lost..... come on monkey, try harder!

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=t+shirt+monkey&word2=suprised+looking+cat

 

What the cat saw.............

 

I like monkeys. But I also like surprised looking cats. Which one is best? There's only one way to find out......FIGHT!!!

 

Dearest fight fans,

Since being so horribly traumatised by the sight of the pig-fuc***g monkey, not to mention the bouts of hysteria I suffer since being exposed, recently, to the writings of RG and the price of Nobdust Cables, I'm afraid my fighting days are over.

The closest I get to excitement these daze is spraying my owner's Squeezebox with my 'Special Brew' contact cleaner - it does sod all for the sound but it makes it smell 'ooooh soooo sweeeet'!

Oh, and giving my balls a good lick before bedtime. That's still fun.

And anyway I think the monkey's quite cute, really. Kinky but cute.

 

Is that really your cat?

 

Sueezebox and Spotify

Dear Dave Hi-fi, I followed all your great instructions. Everything was going fine until I tried to play the stream through the Squeezebox. Icecast set up was fine. The meters are moving on Edcast, even the Metadata suggestion shows the track details in edcast.
Once you click play on the Squeezecenter web interface either nothing happens or it appears to play for a few seconds and stops.
http://192.168.0.3:8000/stream.m3u (that is my PC's IP) appears on the squeezebox player but I get no sound and then it stops anyway.
I'm using Vista.
Any ideas?