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Valentin271 / DeezerKodi

Deezer client for Kodi
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Many tracks unavailable #19

Open anotherstuart opened 1 year ago

anotherstuart commented 1 year ago

Hi

Thanks for your work; I have got the plugin up and running on osmc on my pi.

There seem to be very many tracks not available/skipped I'm wondering if this is a country rights issue. Are the requests made in line with the guidance here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16958029/deezer-apsi-example-of-non-streamable-song-for-country-limitation

Or am I getting the rights of some random country, not my own?

Thanks

Valentin271 commented 1 year ago

Hello,

It is possible that many tracks are unavailable in your country, though the same tracks should be playable on DeezerKodi and official Deezer Apps. Notice playable, more tracks might be visible than on official Deezer Apps

According to the link you provided, you should be getting the rights for your Deezer account country.

anotherstuart commented 1 year ago

Hi, sorry this has taken so loooong for me to pick up and test again... there are definitely a large number of songs that are not played on the DeezerKodi plugin on my RPi compared to if I play the same list of songs on my phone. These are skipped, rather than it being a limited list.

I have had another look through possible causes and I wonder if it is something to do with the plugin treating itself as "Smart TV"? I am testing the list against using my phone (mostly) and a windows PC (sometimes) I never / almost never get skipped songs on ither of these two.

On the plus side, this is mildly annoying - but doesn't stop it being a great plugin.

If you can think of any specific tests I can do to pin this down please let me know.

Cheers

Stuart

david-morris commented 1 year ago

OK, I've confirmed that in this addon, Julie London's Cry Me A River causes a crash, but it plays on my phone. I'm in Germany.

So it's not just a matter of many tracks being unavailable. It's also a matter of the plugin crashing Kodi (which ... shouldn't be possible but OK, python is not the greatest language for embedding) and not being able to see which tracks are unplayable. To me, the following steps would make sense:

Would that make sense in one PR or should we split this into two issues? P.S. hey, are we checking the readable field of the track object?