@8gJwRQ Same here! I do not have the skill to program a music player. But if I could I would built one with the flexibility of Foobar2000 and have Foobar add-on support to make it an extremely smooth switch over. I sorely miss an OpenLyrics panel in Strawberry 😞 For some reason, my Foobar2000 via Wine keeps breaking after a while, even if used via Lutris. Strawberry is one of the best alternatives, but the synced lyrics via OpenLyrics is missed deepy.

@tagomago
I didn't get Honeypot to work (their website is very slow and I'm receiving 504 Gateway Time-out errors), so I've switched to using hCaptcha instead of Google reCAPTCHA, let's wait and see if that makes any difference.

@mncroc LMS (Logitech Media Server / Squeezebox server / Lyrion....) keeps it nice & concise (albeit you have to access the information via the 'Settings' webpage):

Library Statistics
Total Tracks: 26,106
Total Albums: 2,399
Total Artists: 5,197
Total Genres: 93
Total Playlists: 0
Total Playing Time: 1987:20:05

It does also have a rather splendid plugin 'Visual Statistics' that tells you pretty much anything you might care to know about your collection.

But, hey, this is all about SMP - and I love it!

It's not possible to seek a live stream

There are several issues with the Spotify support in release 1.1.1, so I've been working on fixing those.

The blocking of the GUI when switching songs is fixed. Streaming being limited to 128kbps is fixed. The favorites and search results returning too many artists and albums is fixed.

However, today I notice that Spotify's authentication for the actual streaming is no longer working, there is some discussion here:
https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot/issues/1308
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-rs/-/issues/203
Hopefully it will be resolved, and then possible to provide a access token to gstreamer so we do not have to provide additional login for the actual streaming too.

@jonas said in artist info by Wikipedia:

One problem is that the Wikipedia API returns everything related to a specific search, not just artists. So I consider the Wikipedia API not the be good enough for our use-case.

What about using MusicBrainz's API instead? Their artist data seems to be derived from Wikipedia as well.

I would also appreciate this feature, grouping by genres is currently unusable for me due to the same issue you describe.