Bug | Spotify stats from Spot not working with stats.fm

[Andreas02-dev]

Describe the bug
The song that's currently playing doesn't show, and songs that have been played do not appear in the listening history. This does work with the official Spotify Desktop client.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Play a song using Spot
2. Go to your stats.fm dashboard
3. Observe that the song does not show up in the listening history

Expected behavior
The song should at least show up in the listening history

Screenshots
N.a.

General information:

• Distribution: NixOS 23.11.5097.880992dcc006 (Tapir) x86_64
• Installation method [e. g. built from source, installed from Flathub...]: Nixpkgs
• Version [e.g. 0.1.0]: 0.4.0
• Device used [e. g. desktop, phone...]: Desktop Linux

Stack trace:
If applicable, run the application from a terminal and paste relevant log output.

flatpak run --env=RUST_BACKTRACE=full dev.alextren.Spot

Additional context
Add any other context about the problem here.

[Diegovsky]

I'm not familiar with stats.fm, but if I were to guess, it gets that information from Spotify's API. This means we're not telling Spotify which songs are being played.

I think this might be solved with a Spotify Connect implementation #55.

[Andreas02-dev]

I'm not familiar with stats.fm, but if I were to guess, it gets that information from Spotify's API. This means we're not telling Spotify which songs are being played.

I think this might be solved with a Spotify Connect implementation #55.

Thanks for the reply! Do you have more information available on the status of the Spotify Connect implementation than on the mentioned RFE? Is someone still working on it?

[Diegovsky]

Well, it's unfortunately a one-person project ATM. You can see the details of why in the pinned issues, but I'm currently the only active maintainer and I'm very busy with college.

We're always open to contributions though, so if you know how to code, feel free to open a PR.

Btw, I added this to one of our version milestones, so it's gonna get implemented eventually.