are people using this... successfully?

[colemickens]

I have spotifyd running on a number of my machines.

Spotifyd virtually never appears in my list of devices, unless I manually restart it.

Further, I got approximately one and a half songs into playback today before it disconnected. I gave up, I use it through Firefox most of the time anyway.

I guess I'm curious, are people actually successfully using this? With any amount of reliability?

[eladyn]

Yes, there are indeed people who are using in a sensible not-annoying way, I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one judging by the user interaction through GitHub issues or the matrix server.

However, stability is indeed a big issue, unfortunately. Especially when it comes to internet connectivity drop-outs or similar things. They aren't handled well at all at the moment and thus lead to a really bad experience for some. (Even if your connection seems stable, there might still be random disconnections that you don't notice but spotifyd will fail upon.)

So you basically have several options:

• see if you can somehow improve the stability of the environment that spotifyd is used in
• use another client
• try to improve the reconnection handling (that would be amazing, just have a look at this discussion in the upstream repository)

[colemickens]

Thank you @eladyn, that all makes sense! I'll take a look at librespot, thanks for the link to that discussion. So that I don't pollute that topic, is it accurate to guess that some of this is caused by ... Spotify itself being (overly) aggressive with respect to temporarily disconnected clients? I get the impression, from reading through that discussion, that it is overly sensitive to momentary blips?

[colemickens]

Well, maybe it's not that simple, since it seems that (regardless of Spotify's behavior) the librespot/spotifyd seem to often get themselves stuck to where they don't even appear as clients until a restart.

Either way, the question is answered. Thank you for spotifyd, and thanks for the comprehensive answer. I'll close this now.