Newbie -- Spotify and Bluos
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I just received my powernode (first Bluesound product) and I have struggled with spotify. I have tunein/radio paradise/siriusXM/spotify/tidal connected to the app. All of the services allow me to add favorites to the bluos app. For example I added Chris Cornell to my favorite artists in Tidal and it shows up in the favorite artists section of the bluos app (wtithout having the tidal app open). I have been trying for the last several hours to set up my premium spotify account to do the same thing. Unfortunately I cannot figure it out. The only option is to "Open Spotify App" and "Add Preset". Almost all of my playlists/artists/album/song data resides in spotify and I would rather not recreate out of Tidal to use the BluOS app. Please help!! What am I missing. Thank you
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Hi Shawn, you’re not missing anything. Spotify on Bluesound uses Spotify Connect and that means using the Spotify App for music control. With Tidal you can either use the native app or the Bluesound integration.
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OK.....that is unfortunate. I was hoping that I could upgrade my system from sonos (which clearly the powernode does) but management of my content (spotify/FLAC and MP3 files/tidal/other) is critical to me. Anyone have any thoughts?? Roon maybe? Just trying to consolidate my various listening sources if possible (which sonos does, kinda).
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Personally Spotify does not get any love from me as they still stream in less than CD quality and I get fatigued very quickly. There are multiple tools available that let you export playlist and move them to other streaming services so you could move to another service and then use the integration in the Bluesound app.
Roon is great (trialled it a few times) and yes it gets Tidal, Qobuz and you local library all in one app and seamless, it’s does however cost in terms of hardware and a software license.
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The other consideration is that you cannot set a Spotify playlist or artist as a preset because of it using the Spotify Connect feature. This is unfortunate especially with the Bluesound speakers that have preset buttons.
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