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mopidy / mopidy-spotify

Mopidy extension for playing music from Spotify
https://mopidy.com/ext/spotify/
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Using Spotify, I can stream with two different devices #275

Closed busybox11 closed 3 years ago

busybox11 commented 4 years ago

Let me explain the situation here. I'm currently streaming music on my phone. I just installed Mopidy and Iris with Spotify, tried playing music, and now I have two different devices playing different music.

Why is this a thing? I think it's because Spotify Connect isn't a thing here but I don't really know.

busybox11 commented 4 years ago

I'm not sure if this is the right repo, tho.

busybox11 commented 4 years ago

Oh, and it has the same behavior with MPD.

scorgn commented 3 years ago

This is what confuses me. I understand Spotify connect is not supported, but the fact that you can stream from multiple devices simultaneously when that's specifically/intentionally restricted from Spotify is odd to me.

jodal commented 3 years ago

Playing music with Mopidy-Spotify Will normally cause a Spotify stream on another device using the same account to stop. It also works the other way around, playing music elsewhere will cause Mopidy-Spotify to pause. This behavior predates Spotify Connect with several years, so that should not be relevant.

If you don't observe this behavior I suspect that the other device might be playing in offline mode, so Spotify doesn't know about it?

Either way, this restriction applies to Mopidy-Spotify just like most, if not all, other Spotify clients. We don't have any logic related to this, as it is all handled inside the libspotify library and Spotify's servers.

scorgn commented 3 years ago

Right I understand that. That's why I'm confused on why I'm able to stream from two different streams when using Mopidy-Spotify, actively choosing new songs that are definitely not accessible from offline mode.

I just tried now to confirm, searched "Something" through Spotify and found two songs I had never heard of before. I played one through Mopidy-Spotify and the other through Spotify on my computer. I then continued to switch the songs to other new songs on both my computer and Mopidy-Spotify. Neither of the streams were disconnected.

But when I play it on a third device though like my Google Home it will stop the playback on my computer, but keep the playback on Mopidy-Spotify.

I'm not protesting closing the issue or anything, there's no real issue with Mopidy-Spotify, but it is definitely odd to me.