[Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox

I'm happy to announce Spotty 2.8.0 - which I call the philippe44 release! Thanks to philippe44's contribution, Spotty now can play without any transcoding involved. We can finally play the Spotify OGG stream directly on the Squeezebox. Transcoding options still are available, of course. Previously Spotify's OGG stream would have been transcoded to PCM, then in LMS from PCM to FLAC (by default), adding more CPU overhead than necessary on your LMS machine.



In addition to this direct streaming of the audio data, the spotty helper now features improved support for those dynamic playlists Spotify offers. If you're using Spotty in Connect mode, you should have access to the daily mixes etc. This feature was introduced by the librespot team - Librespot is the underlying library which does all the Spotify streaming interaction.

So this is the biggest release in a long time, with the smallest contribution of myself :-D.

Some limitations still apply:

• Seeking within the OGG stream isn't possible at this point. When you see, Spotty would fall back to transcode the stream into something it can seek with.
• Podcasts still cannot be played.
• OGG direct streaming unfortunately is not available on the armel platform. I haven't managed to compile the latest helper for this platform. But it should still continue to work as before.
• I've given up trying to build for arm-muslhf. That binary was kind of redundant anyway, as the glibc linked version seems to be working very well.

Enjoy the music!

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