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Also, have you tried retrieving the playlists using another Spotify client such as yaspot or footify? In the cases that I have has problem with retrieving playlists the loading has also failed with other clients.

there is some problems loading playlists. checked the logs. qspot just trying to load.

footify load one of my 5 playlists so somthing is not working with the playlists.

Yes, you are right. None of the spotify clients (footify, yaspot etc) won't load the playlists at all.... What might be the problem? in the library? too many playlists?

QSpot uses a different library (libopenspotify) compared to the other clients (which are based on libdespotify). They do share some codebase though. I will need to look some more into the playlist handling. For me the loading problems have been intermittent, i.e. occuring only temporarily. Do you only have playlists created by yourself, or do you also have collaborative / imported playlists?

yes i have both type of playlists (collaborative and imported).

but i had them before the problem and all worked well...

I will have to look into this issue some more. Is the problem now always occuring, that is you cannot get the playlists at all currently? I have myself not noted this problem at all (e.g., I have logged in and retrieved playlists several times today), which makes it more difficult to figure out the reason. I will need to find some way to reproduce the problem. But as the problem also occurs with other clients it seems to be some communication problem with the Spotify backend.

Would it be possible for you to start qspot from the XTerm, and provide the output when the problem with playlist loading occurs?

It never loads the playlists, no matter what the client is (or my location or time or whatever).

This is the output from xterm:

......................
~ $ qspot
Unsupported date format character at 1 (%-d.%-m.)
Got here too..
"User (my user name) logged in.."
Fetch root playlist container..
......................


Nothing else happens after this. The longest time i have waited is between 15-20 minutes.

ugh.

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Hey, just wanted to thank you for great work so far. Unfortunately though, I've realised that any mobile implementation of Spotify without offline caching is pretty useless for me - so I'm uninstalling QSpot for the time being and going back to the iPhone. I'll keep tabs on this thread should you get caching.

PS. I get the same error as kankeus with the current version. It's not the reason for me uninstalling, but it is a problem.

and here is the output from xterm for the other clients:


~ $ footify
footify-0.0.9-1
init_client, high_bitrate = 0, use_cache = 1
Segmentation fault
~ $ yaspot
starting yaspot 0.3.0
connected to dbus
init despotify
init audio()
audio: init
thread: PAUSE, sleeping
playlist_from_disk: could not open /home/user/.yaspot/playlist for reading
add state cb 0xc8a4 data 0xbee324b4
add state cb 0x100b0 data 0xbee324b4
libplayback: sounds enabled by policy, resume playback
try login
control_thread: got command 1 and argument 0
emit state 0xc8a4 data 0xbee324b4
client_state_cb: 1
emit state 0x100b0 data 0xbee324b4
conic_event_cb: connected
control_thread: got command 2 and argument 0
authentication successfull
emit state 0xc8a4 data 0xbee324b4
client_state_cb: 2
User : (my username)
Country : FI
Type : premium
Expiry : Fri Aug 13 17:33:59 2010

Host : A3.spotify.com:4070
Last ping : Tue Aug 3 00:28:24 2010

emit state 0x100b0 data 0xbee324b4
app-menu: state_cb
get playlists
control_thread: got command 4 and argument 0
couldn't get stored playlists
playlist_to_disk: won't even try to save 0 lists
^C
~ $ qtify
Unsupported date format character at 1 (%-d.%-m.)
QMetaObject::connectSlotsByName: No matching signal for on_actionTest_triggered()
QMetaObject::connectSlotsByName: No matching signal for on_actionPlaylist_triggered()
QMetaObject::connectSlotsByName: No matching signal for on_twSongs_itemClicked(QTreeWidgetItem*,int)
Initializing thread...
Starting thread...
Is spotify initialized? true
356938030311923
Authentication suceeded, fetching playlists
Authentication successful
No playlists fetched: Timeout while loading playlist
Received signal: PlaylistsUpdated
Show playlist button clicked
..................................................

ugh.